Mandy Miller

She now lives in the United States. She contiued to accept occasional film roles until her death in Athens in 1973. Although she did not continue her career as an adult, her films are well remembered and she recently featured in a magazine article bringing readers up to date on her life. She formed the Royal Theater of Athens with Alexis Minotis, her principal director and her husband since 1940. dramas, making films until she was 18. Returning to Greece in 1950, Paxinou resumed her stage career. She also appeared in T.V. She continued appearing in Hollywood films until 1949.

Mandy Miller also made a single record, familiar to British people of a certain age, called Nelly The Elephant. She was selected to play Pilar in the 1943 film of For Whom the Bell Tolls, winning a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe. Louis. When World War II broke out she was performing in London and unable to return to Greece she emigrated to the US. musical Meet Me In St. Paxinou distinguished herself on the stage. Just some of her other famous co-stars were Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Godfrey Tearle, Thora Hird, Sam Wanamaker and Joan Carroll, one of the stars of the M.G.M. Trained as an opera singer but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

She had lighter roles such as in Raising A Riot (1955) starring Kenneth More. Born Katina Constantopoulos in Pireas. Valerie Hobson played the mother. Katina Paxinou (December 17, 1900 - February 22, 1973) was a Greek film and theatre actress. She was just as convincing in the next film Background (1952), along with the other two child actors in this film about a family breaking up due to an impending divorce. Like Mandy, this was a drama about a well-to-do middle class family. Un Été Sauvage (1970). The other leads were Jack Hawkins and Phyllis Calvert. Tante Zita (1968),.

She was a natural actress and put in a much praised performance in her second film, another Ealing production, Mandy (1953), playing a deaf child who's parents do not know how to cope with raising her. Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli (1960),. Her career tended to involve serious acting roles rather than comedy, even in her first small part in The Man In The White Suit, where she was a sad-faced little girl who helped Alec Guinness escape his pursuers. Arkadin (1955),. Actually named Carman but called Mandy by her family, she was born in 1944 in Somerset, England. Mr. British child-star who made a number of films in the fifties. Prince of Foxes (1949),.