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Το 2ο μερος του αφιερωματος μου στους Ελληνες που βρεθηκαν στο Hollywood στην αρχη το 20ου αιωνα και εργαστηκαν στην βιομιχανια του θεαματος. παραγωγοι, σκηνοθετες, ηθοποιοι, χορευτες, και φυσικα επιχειρηματιες κινηματογραφων. ακουστε το podcast και για να μαθετε τις καταπληκτικες ιστοριες τους
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Ποιοι ηταν οι πρωτοι Ελληνες που βρεθηκαν στην αρχη του 20ου αιωνα στον χωρο του κινηματογραφου και εγιναν ηθοποιοι, σκηνοθετες, παραγωγοι, στο Hollywood? Ακουστε το podcast για μια ιστορικη αναδρομη στην ιστορια αυτων των πρωτοπορων ανθρωπων.
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100 years of Greek winners and nominations at the Academy Awards. Directors, Choreographers, Designers, Actors, and many more categories are featured in this tribute to all the Hellenes that have received an Oscar or were nominated for an Oscar over the years. Listen to the podcast and be find out who they are:
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Spyros Panagiotis Skouras was a Greek - American motion picture pioneer and film executive who was president of 20th Century Fox from 1942-1962. A rags to riches life story of a shepherd that became the most influential Greek in business, politics and a true patriot. His story is not widely known, take the time to listen how this larger than life man saved three million Greeks from famine and disease during WW2 while at the same time he was making successful Hollywood movies.
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Irene "Rena" Vlahopoulou 28 July 1917 – 29 July 2004 was a Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musicals, and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu. Vlahopoulou was born on the island of Corfu, the fifth of nine children. She was a talented dancer and actress and a qualified mezzo-soprano. Over the course of her fifty-five-year career she appeared in 105 theatrical plays between 1939 and 1994, and twenty-six films between 1951 and 1985. Listen to the podcast and learn more about the Greek female version of Charly Chaplin as she was known.
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Aris San was a Greek musician, singer and entrepreneur. He popularized Greek music in Israel in the late 1950's and 60's. Aris led a mysterious life as a non Jewish Greek singer who formed close ties with generals and politicians. He became a megastar, club owner and lover of many movie actresses. He is mostly remembered for the magic he could play with his guitar and his lucid vocal style. His life should be made into a movie, it has all the qualities for a hit musical, drama, thriller. Listen to the podcast and find out more about this eclectic musician who has even a music award named after him in Israel.
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Georgia Vassiliadou born 1 January 1897, to a family with ten children. She was a Greek actress that played mainly in comedies of cinema and on stage. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou, but she changed it to Vassiliadou when she decided to get into singing and acting. In 1922 she began her studies at the Gennadius School and in 1923 she appeared in various operas. She worked in major theatrical groups of the time with Kyveli, Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat, performing various roles. Alekos Sakellarios offered her a role in 1939 in The Girls of the Marriage, which marked the beginning of a second, but better known career - this time as a comedian, the "most beautiful ugly" of Greek cinema, as she was called. Listen to the podcast and find out more about this legendary actress that is still loved and remembered to this day.
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Despo Diamantidou born 13 July 1916 in Athens, she was a Greek actress of theater and cinema. She was the granddaughter of engineer Spyridon Kritsilis, who served many times as a Member of Parliament. She spoke four foreign languages (English, French, Italian and Russian), which helped her translate a number of foreign plays. In the spring of 1967, Despo Diamantidou participated in a theatrical tour in the USA, staging the play "Illya Darling" (theatrical adaptation of the film "Never on Sunday") at the Broadway Theater in New York. During her stay there, the April coup d'état took place in Greece. Diamantidou decided not to return to Greece under these conditions and remained "in exile" in the United States until the transition to democracy, having returned to Greece only late in the summer of 1974. While in the USA she participated in Woody Allen's 1975 film The Peacemaker, playing the mother of the protagonist. A milestone in her career was her participation in the 1960 film Never on Sunday by American director Jules Dassin starring Melina Mercouri.Listen to the podcast and find out more about this remarkable woman that was characterized by her husband as a real free spirit but a real lady that opened the way and empowered female actresses to be independent.
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Vasilis Tsivilikas was a Greek comedy actor with significant appearances in the Greek film industry, television and especially theater. His first theatrical performance was in 1965 at Nea Ionia. Two years later Karolos Koun invited him to Theatro Technis. In the early 1970s he got involved with satire plays and in the mid-1970s with prose. The 70's was also the decade he first appeared on the Big Screen. The first movie he appeared in was I theia mou, i hipissa by Alekos Sakellarios. Tzivilikas loved the energy exchange between audience and actor, while on stage. His acting career spanned over 50 successful years of which he only brought laughter and joy to his faithful followers. Listen to the podcast and find out more about this, unforgettable, loved and successful artist:
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While the the World Cup is taking place in Qatar this year causing much criticism and controversy, I took the liberty and made this podcast to get us in the spirit of the game. The tradition of football chants vary from country to country and team to team, in this episode we explore the creative side of the sport, the songs and stories behind the Greek soccer team chants. Not being fanatical or biased towards a specific team, pure entertainment in mind as we journey into the stadiums chanting famous songs with different lyrics from the poets of the popular game. Credits to the Greek music band walkman the band – Walkman the band-WEDDING BAND for re creating & singing beautifully many of the audio clips in this tribute. (2905) Walkman The Band - YouTube
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In this episode of One Story, One Song we search for the truth behind a very popular Greek rebetiko song titled "Ta Nea tis Alexandras" (Alexandras News) it was recorded in 1961 by Vangelis Perpiniadis. The real story remained unknown for more than 60 years but a facebook post by Argyro Moustakas Vretou after a spike in murders against women (Femicide) in Greece, tell a different story. The real news of Alexandra was recorded & released based on her statement as a short film and the song sang by singer Semeli Papavasileiou and lyrics adjusted by lyricist Demitra Athanasopoulos. Listen to the podcast as we try and bring attention to the social crimes against women that are more relevant now than ever.
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Elias Kazan was a Greek American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter actor and author. He was described by the New York Times a one of the most honored and influential directors of Broadway and Hollywood history. Born in Constantinople his family came to the USA in 1913. Listen to the podcast and find out the extraordinary journey of the man that became known as the "actor's director" under his direction received 24 Academy Award nominations and received nine Oscars. Elias Kazan changed the history of Cinema:
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In this tribute we focus on the sounds, the musical gems the singers, the writers & composers of the most popular songs that became anthems during very turbulent and politically unstable times in Greece. 17 of November 1973 is a Day of Remembrance. It commemorates a massive student protest that led to the end of the Greek Military Coup, also known as the Regime of the Colonels. these songs were mostly censored or banned during the junta but went on to become historical and legendary hymns towards Freedom and Democracy. Listen to the podcast and find out more:
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She was born Amalia Hatzaki in Heraklion, Crete in 1919, initially she was a javelin throwing athlete, later she studied law in Athens. However, she took exams and graduated with honors from the Drama School of the Royal Theatre. She played in many films on the Big Screen Cinema as well as on stage and on television, she is fondly remembered as the partner of famous Greek actor Vassilis Logothetidis. Listen to the podcast and learn more about this beautiful, cultured woman that has left her mark in the Greek movie scene.
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, a trip down memory lane from 1919 till 2021 as we explore the films that were made about the destruction on Smyrna in 1922. We pay our respects and remember this tragic part of our history while learning some trivia facts about the making of these historic and classic films. Listen to the podcast:
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Irene Papas 3 September 1926 – 14 September 2022, was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Zorba the Greek (1964). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). In 1969, the RCA label released Papas' vinyl LP, Songs of Theodorakis, she appeared on the album 666 by the Greek rock group Aphrodite's Child. In 1979, Polydor released her album of eight Greek folk songs entitled Odes, with electronic music performed (and partly composed) by Vangelis. Listen to the podcast and find out more about the awe-inspiring goddess, the living Caryatid as she was called:
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