I watched her make coffee. “I only have Greek,” she warned me. Politely, without theatrical play, with the calmness of a well-fed woman and an interview question: “To whom is all this before all this?”. Her hair was covered with a bandana, her body was covered with a loose dress, and she certainly did not look like a luscious brunette who drove those who did not like blondes crazy.

cinematic Martha Karagiannis he conquered them with his temperament, abilities, directness. She was not a diva like Zoe Laskari, and not a lady like Mary Chronopoulou, but a Mediterranean luscious woman with a clean look who did not treat men from high positions. Her own sensuality mingled with the scherzo, nasality, liveliness, directness. It is no coincidence that they became so close on the screen with Kostas Vutsa, also a good neighbor guy.

From the age of 17 she loved supporting roles, human types. “The roles I really wanted to play were character roles,” he told Speranza Vrana in the 80s. He was in Perok when he first got into the theater, then he really liked the role of the old woman, played by Marika Nezer in the play. Years later, the Pretender wrote her a role in a comedy, where she was supposed to appear in the form of an old woman, and then a young woman. “I was overjoyed! So, at the rehearsal, the Pretender says to me: “You are too young and too beautiful to be seventy years old. I was thinking about putting you in the second act or not at all.” – No, don’t this with me! I helped the voices.”

She wanted to play checkers. On the same occasion, he told Aris Davarakis: “I have been waiting for many years how and how I can grow up, so that the moment comes to do other things.”

He was a gifted child. Her mother Domna from Baku and father Harilaos from Yekaterinodar met and fell in love at the Pontic dance school that operated in Drapetsony in the 1930s. When Marta was born, she was the “doll” of the Keratsini district.

Hollywood movie with Shirley Temple drove her crazy. He was then blinded by Esther Williams. At the age of seven, she was enrolled in the dance school of Adam Moryanov, and then in the children’s ballet Lyriki.

It began in 1957 in the revue “Elephants and Fleas” with the troupe of Hatzihristou, Diridava, Mavrea. She spoke bitterly of her conversion during her early years on examination. “It wasn’t enough for me to come out pretty in a bikini and dance.” So he begged Giorgos Giannakopoulos, “Let me tell some comedians too.” And then the artistic director of the theater answered her: “If you still say comedians, then we, comedians, should go home.”

It began in 1957 in the revue “Elephants and Fleas” with the troupe of Hatzihristou, Diridava, Mavrea.

Finos, Dalianidis

He made his film debut in 1965 in Fino’s The Unknown, directed by Orestis Laskos and starring the great Kiveli in a small role. However, he was loved by the musicals of G. Dalianidis and comedies such as Wanted Liar.

For many, she was a talented subrette, but G. Dalianidis struggled to separate her from this image. In the 1967 film Beads by the Sea, she appears as a comedian. She played only one dramatic film role, Persu in I Die Every Morning by Nikos Foskolos. However, she always mentioned the play “Cabaret”, which she staged in 1962 with her troupe at the Kalutash Theater under the direction of Alexis Solomos.

When she first went to the theatre, Mrs. Domna accompanied her everywhere. “He sat on the square and slept. But as soon as he heard the introduction to the polka, which I danced, he immediately woke up, clapped his hands to me and fell asleep again, ”he told Vrana.

Martha Karagianni was married to Olympiacos footballer Dimitris Stefanakos, she experienced the loss of a child three days after his birth. “I cried, I suffered, I became depressed.” They divorced after a few months. Her 12-year relationship with Panathinaikos goalkeeper Vassilis Konstantinou was a great love. Makis Delaportas in Series “K” “Great Greek Actors” she mentioned her meeting with Robert Mitcham, who was fascinated to see her dancing in The Friday Cave, and then her acquaintance with Jean-Paul Belmondo when he arrived in 1962 as Melina’s guest. The actress said: “When you are 20 years old and you have to choose between Sartre and a football player, you will be a fool if you do not choose a football player. Of course, at fifty you will be a fool if you don’t go with Sartre.”

She didn’t feel like a sex symbol. “Others have seen me like this. But I was a deeply romantic person. And I lived as a woman and as a woman I experienced a lot. However, there is an end to all this. Because even if the soul yearns, the body betrays you. Thank God, I managed to escape from the trap of a beautiful and fatal woman. (…) A person who grows old means that he has lived.”

Motherhood was a thorn in her life, but, as she said, “we can’t all be parents.” He loved long-distance travel and enjoyed them: China, Japan, Egypt, India, Nepal, Singapore, Iran, Peru, Amazon, Antarctica. From the age of 50 she was attached to good, chosen friends, but her main support until her sudden death was her friend, colleague and roommate Dora Dumas.

“I don’t want to play in the theater until I die,” he admitted to Vrana decades ago. “I just want to not leave the theater without doing something very good.”