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She was selected to play the role of Pilar in the film For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
For her superb portrayal of the Spanish revolutionary Pilar in this classic film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1944. She made a few more Hollywood movies, before returning to Greece in the early 1950's.
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- Piraeus, Greece
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- Athens, Greece
Pilar : Look I am ugly. Yet one can have a feeling here. [points to her heart] Pilar : that blinds a man while he loves you. He thinks you are beautiful. And one day for no reason at all he sees you ugly as you really are. And he is not blind anymore.
Dec 17, 2020 · Paxinou played the Spanish revolutionary, Pilar, in the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel. Her portrayal was excellent and was critically acclaimed. Her role led to Paxinou receiving a prestigious honour, being the first Greek to win the Academy Award and receiving an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1944.
Jul 29, 2018 · Katina Paxinou as "Pilar" in For Whom the Bell Tolls Synopsis : A strong-willed gypsy woman leads a pack of guerilla fighters, when her treacherous man isn't up to the task. She teams up with an American soldier on an operation to blow up a bridge.
For her superb portrayal of the Spanish revolutionary Pilar in this classic film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1944. She made a few more Hollywood movies, before returning to Greece in the early 1950's.
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Feb 23, 1973 · ATHENS, Feb. 22 — Katina Paxinou, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Pilar in the 1943 film of Ernest Hemingway's “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” died of cancer here today. She was 72...
