Never on Sunday (1960) DVD Melina Mercouri A bright, cheerful, and witty romantic comedy set in Piraeus, a Greek port town. The scenery of Greece in its heyday is revived. Set to the Academy Award-winning theme song "Never on Sunday," this is a cheerful love story between Ilya, a cheerful prostitute, and Homer, a stuffy historian. Melina Mercouri won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Directed and Written by: Jules Dassin Starring: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin Ilya, a blonde with a great figure, is cheerful and sunny, and always takes Sundays off. Homer, an American scholar of ancient Greece, falls in love with her, considering her a traditional Greek beauty, and tries to get her to quit her current profession... Please refrain from price negotiations.