Editing Never on Sunday (section)

{{Short description|1960 film directed by Jules Dassin}}
{{About|the 1960 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Never on Sunday
| image          = Never on sunday423.jpg
| director       = [[Jules Dassin]]
| writer         = Jules Dassin
| starring       = [[Melina Mercouri]]<br />Jules Dassin<br />[[Giorgos Fountas]]
| cinematography = [[Jacques Natteau]]
| editing        = [[Roger Dwyre]]
| music          = [[Manos Hadjidakis]]
| production_companies = Melina Film
| distributor    = [[Lopert Pictures Corporation]] (United States)
| released       = {{Film date|1960|10|1|df=y}}
| runtime        = 91 minutes
| country        = Greece
| language       = Greek<br />English<br />Russian
| budget         = $150,000<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, ''United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 127</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety-1961-11/mode/1up?q=%22brought+in+at%22|magazine=Variety|page=1|title=On $151,000 Negative Cost, Forsee 'Never On Sunday' Rentals of $8 mill|date=1 November 1961}}</ref>
| gross          = $4 million <small>(rentals)</small><ref>"All-Time Top Grossers", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 8 January 1964 p 69</ref>
}}

'''''Never on Sunday''''' ({{langx|el|Ποτέ την Κυριακή}}, {{transliteration|el|''Poté tin Kyriakí''}}) is a 1960 Greek [[romantic comedy]] film starring, written by and directed by [[Jules Dassin]].

The film tells the story of Ilya, a contented Greek prostitute ([[Melina Mercouri]]), and Homer (Dassin), an earnest American classicist. Homer attempts to steer her toward morality while Ilya attempts to make Homer more relaxed. The original screenplay examines the impact of intellectual imperialism upon indigenous [[Joie de vivre]]. It constitutes a variation of the [[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]] plus "[[hooker with a heart of gold]]" story.<ref name=bonano>Christopher Bonano, ''Gods, Heroes, And Philosophers'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=IXN1AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 p. 53]</ref>

The film's [[bouzouki]] theme became a hit and the film won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] ([[Manos Hadjidakis]] for "[[Never on Sunday (song)|Never on Sunday]]"). It was nominated for Academy Awards for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role]] (Mercouri), [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design, Black-and-White]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Writing, Story and Screenplay as Written Directly for the Screen]] (both Dassin). Mercouri won the award for [[Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress]] at the [[1960 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url= https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/never-on-sunday |title=Festival de Cannes: Never on Sunday |access-date=2024-02-29|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>