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Jules Dassin, a film director who left Hollywood during the communist blacklisting era, died in Athens. He passed away Monday at the age of 97. Dassin was married to the Greek actress Melina Mercouri, who starred in many of his films in the early 1960s. A native of Middletown, Conn., he was one of eight […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315