Jack Lemmon

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John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor nominated for an Oscar eight times, twice winning twice.

He appeared in more than 60 films, including Mister Roberts (1955), Days of Wine and Roses (1968), The Odd Couple (1968), The United States Marriage (1972), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Early life and education

Lemmon was born in 1924 in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess (née LaRue; 1896-1977) and John Uhler Lemmon II (1893–1962), president of the Doughnut Corporation of America. John Lemmon II of Ireland was of Irish descent, and Jack Lemmon was raised Catholic. When Lemmon was 18, his parents had a difficult marriage and separated for the first time, but never divorced. He attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. Lemmon, who was often sick as an infant, underwent three significant operations on his ears before he turned 10. By the time he turned 12, he had spent two years in hospital.

He said he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight while accepting his lifetime achievement award. He began to act in school plays. Lemmon attended Rivers Country Day School and Phillips Andover Academy (Class of 1943), where he pursued track sports with success, and Harvard College (Class of 1947), where he lived in Eliot House. He was president of the Hasty Pudding Club and vice president of Dramatic and Delphic Clubs at Harvard. Except for drama and music, he was an exceptional student.

Lemmon was forbidden from performing onstage due to academic suspension, but he was allowed to appear in roles employing pseudonyms such as Timothy Orange.

Lemmon, a member of the V-12 Navy College Training Program, was sent by the US Navy and spent a short time as an ensign on the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain during World War II before returning to Harvard after completing his military service. He worked under coach Uta Hagen at HB Studio in New York City after graduating with a degree in War Service Sciences in 1947. He was also a pianist who learned to play by ear at age 14 and learned to play by ear. He served unpaid as a waiter and master of ceremonies at the Old Knick bar on Second Avenue for about a year. He also performed the piano at the venue.

Personal life

Lemmon was married twice before being married. Chris Lemmon (born 1954), he and his first wife actress Cynthia Stone, with whom he had a son, divorced. When shooting Irma La Douce in Paris on August 17, 1962, Lemmon married actress Felicia Farr. Courtney, the couple's daughter, was born in 1966. Lemmon, Lemmon, was the stepfather to Denise, from Farr's previous marriage to Lee Farr. He was close friends with actors Tony Curtis and Kevin Spacey, among other things.

"I remember Jack once telling me he was in such fear his whole life that he'd never have another job," Geraldine McInerney, a publicist, said. Here was one of America's most well-known actors, but he was also without confidence. It seemed as if every day was going to be his last work. Lemmon's drinking increased to deal with hunger in the 1970s. In 1976, he was banned from driving under the influence, but in the early 1980s, he finally stopped drinking alcohol. On a 1998 episode of Inside the Actors Studio, he revealed that he was a recovering alcoholic.

Lemmon was nicknamed the "star" of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am telecast, which took place at Pebble Beach Golf Links each February. Lemmon's packed gallery was not only for his humor but also to root him on in his lifelong struggle to "make the cut" to round four, something he was never able to achieve. The Jack Lemmon Award is given annually to the amateur who assists his team most in the Pro-Am campaign. Lemmon served on the National Student Film Institute's advisory board during the 1980s and 1990s. Lemmon was a registered Democrat.

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Career

Lemmon rose to fame by being a professional actor on television and Broadway. His first film appearance in the film The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949), but he had already appeared in television shows, which totaled about 400 people from 1948 to 1953.

When Lemmon first appeared on Broadway for the first time in a 1953 revival of the comedy Room Service, he was sure his stage career was going to flourish, but the show was cancelled after two weeks. Despite this setback, talent scout Max Arnow, who was then working for Columbia, was spotted by Lemmon, and his attention shifted to films and Hollywood. Harry Cohn, Columbia's president, wanted to change Lemmon's name to describe the actor's films' quality, but he resisted.

His first role as a leading man was in the comedy It Should Happen to You (1954), which also featured Judy Holliday in the female lead. In his review for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther characterized Lemmon as having "a warm and lovable personality." More of him will be shown on the screen. In Phffft, the two leads were soon reunited (also 1954). Kim Novak played a minor role in Lemmon's story as a brief love interest. "I'm not sure I'm focused on films if it wasn't for Judy," he told The Washington Post in 1986, having a snobbish attitude toward films over the stage early in his career." He managed to find a deal with Columbia that gave him leeway to pursue other initiatives, some of which he said "nobody had gotten before." He started out with a seven-year deal but ended up ten years with Columbia. Lemmon's appearance in Mister Roberts (1955), with James Cagney and Henry Fonda of Warner Bros., earned Lemmon the Best Supporting Actor Award. After seeing Lemmon's Columbia screen test, which had been directed by Richard Quine, director John Ford decided to cast him. Ford wanted him to appear in the film at an impromptu meeting on the studio lot, but Lemmon did not know he was in conversation with Ford at the time.

Lemmon played a calculating private in the military farce Operation Mad Ball (1957) set in a US Army base in France after World War II. In Bell, Book and Candle (1958, a film he apparently disliked), and It Happened to Jane (1959), the three three characters were close friends, appearing together in two subsequent films as a warlock. Lemmon appeared in six films directed by Quine. My Sister Eileen (1955), The Notorious Landlady (1962) and How to Murder Your Wife (1965).

Lemmon appeared in seven films with director Billy Wilder. They first appeared in Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. His position called on him to do 80% of the job in drag. Millie Lemmon, a boy who knew his mother, said he had imitated her personality and even her hairstyle. In the role, critic Pauline Kael said he was "demoniacally funny." Wilder's film sequence continued with The Apartment (1960) with Shirley MacLaine. Critical remarks were mixed at the time, but it has since been re-evaluated as a classic today. It received 11 nominations, five Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as five Academy Awards. Lemmon's roles in Both It Hot and The Apartment earned him Oscar nominations. In Irma la Douce (1963), he reunited with MacLaine. MacLaine, who observed the director's male lead, viewed it as "professional infatuation."

In Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Lemmon's first film role was in a Blake Edwards film starring Joe Clay, a young alcoholic businessman. One of Lemmon's allies, the role, for which he was nominated for the Best Actor Award, was one of Lemmon's favorites. He had appeared in 15 comedies, a Western, and an adventure film by this time. In an interview during 1984, "the movie people attached a mark to your big toe," he said. "I knew damn well I could act drama." Following Days of Wine and Roses, things have changed. That was as important a film as I've ever made." Days of Wine and Roses was Lemmon's first film in which he was involved in the film's development through his Jalem production company. Lemmon's connection with Edwards continued with The Great Race (1965), which brought him together with Tony Curtis. His pay at the time was $1 million, but the film did not return its substantial investment at the box office. "Never has there been a villain so rashly as Jack Lemmon," Variety's December 31, 1964, review said.

Lemmon began with actor Walter Matthau in 1966, the first of his many collaborations with him. "One truly wonderful film," British film critic Philip French characterized the film as "one truly amazing film." Matthau went on to win an Academy Award for his role in the film. In 1986, a further nine films starring them co-starring were released, including The Odd Couple (1968), The Front Page (1974), and Buddy Buddy (1981).

The film Cool Hand Luke, which starred Paul Newman in the lead role, was produced by Lemmon's production company Jalem in 1967. The film was a box-office and critical success. In gratitude, a newman named Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down.

The Odd Couple (1968), based on the Neil Simon film, starring mismatched Felix Unger (Lemmon) and Oscar Madison (Matthau), respectively neurotical and cynical. Matthau, the much-admired comedy that was not directed by Lemmon, starred Matthau, who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. Lemmon appeared in another Neil Simon scripted film in which Lemmon appeared.

Jack Lemmon presented the Honorary Academy Award to silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin in 1972 at the 44th Academy Awards.

In Avanti, Lemmon appeared alongside Juliet Mills! (1972) and appeared in The Front Page with Matthau (1974). Wilder produced both films. Lemmon was the actor with a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be restricted; Wilder's biography The director's biography The director says, "Lemmon, I would say him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you need to trim a little fat." "Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon," the wilder said once more.

Harry Stoner, a businessman in the clothing trade who finds someone to commit arson by burning down his warehouse to prevent bankruptcy, appears in Save the Tiger (1973). Several studios turned down the film, but Paramount was able to make it if it had only been budgeted for just $1 million. Lemmon was eager to play the part that he worked for union membership, then $165 a week. Lemmon came close to breaking point; the role was demanding, as the actor: "I crackled as the actor did." "I just kept getting deeper and deeper into the story's narratives." Lemmon received the Best Actor Oscar for this film. He became the first actor to win the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Mister Roberts, despite Helen Hayes' appearance in the same female categories three years ago.

Lemmon was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in The China Syndrome (1979), for which he was also named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. He played a press agent with cancer in Tribute, a stage drama that first appeared in 1979, when trying to mend his son's marriage. The Broadway performance at 212 performances was lauded with mixed feedback. Nonetheless, Lemmon was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Lemmon received another Oscar nomination for his role in the 1980 film version.

Missing (1982), as a conservative father whose son disappeared in Chile during the country's time under Augusto Pinochet's reign, was his final Cannes honor. Billy Wilder, Buddy Buddy (1981), was his last film with a contemporary failure. When a hitman (Matthau) is in the next suite, Lemmon's character attempts suicide in a hotel. Blake Edwards, another of his colleagues', was another flop at the box office, in That's Life. (1986) He appeared in the director's autobiographical film with Julie Andrews, Edwards' wife. Felicia Farr, Lemmon's wife, was cast in a seductress role. Macaroni (1985), a story about old Army friends with Marcello Mastroianni, and That's Life, his later life is said to have been affected by other bad choices, such as Mass Appeal (1984), about a liberal Catholic priest. In 1988, Lemmon received the AFI Life Achievement Award.

In 1986, Lemmon was nominated for a Tony Award for the second and last time in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night; Lemmon had played James Tyrone in a production directed by Jonathan Miller. It was a London performance in 1987, Lemmon's first theatre performance in the city, and a television version followed. Following modest audiences, a return to London in 1989 for the antiwar play Veterans' Day with Michael Gambon was poorly received by analysts, and soon closed. Lemmon appeared in The Murder of Mary Phagan (1989), Dad (1989), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), as well as the production of Long Day's Journey into Night.

In Oliver Stone's film JFK (1991), Lemmon and Matthau played small parts, in which neither man appeared without sharing screen time. In Grumpy Old Men (1993), the two people were reunited. The film was a surprise hit. They appeared together in The Grass Harp (1995), Grumpier Old Men (1995), Out to Sea (1997), and The Odd Couple II (1998) later in the decade. Although Grumpier Old Men earned marginally more than its predecessor, The Odd Couple II was a box-office disappointment.

Lemmon was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Or Nonmusical Album in 1996 for his narration on "Harry S Truman: A Journey To Independence." Lemmon starred alongside James Garner in the comedy My Fellow Americans (1996) as two feuding ex-presidents at the same time. Dan Aykroyd and Lauren Bacall were among the supporting cast members.

In the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, Lemmon was nominated for Best Actor in a Made-for-TV Movie based on William Friedkin's version of Twelve Angry Men (1997). Ving Rhames, who received the Golden Globe for his portrayal of Don King, stunned the A-list crowd and television audience by bringing Lemmon up to the stage and handing him the award. Lemmon didn't want to admit, but Rhames insisted. Lemmon received a standing ovation as he said, "This is one of the best, sweetest moments I've ever encountered in my life." In Henry Fonda's original 1957 film version, the infamous juror was played. Lemmon appeared in George C. Scott's remake and reunited with him in another television film, this time Inherit the Wind (1999).

Lemmon, the owner of the pretzel company, appeared on The Simpsons episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpsons" (1997). Lemmon was named Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Film for his role as Morrie Schwartz in his last television appearance (1999). He was uncredited in his last film role: the narrator in Robert Redford's film The Legend of Bagger Vance was uncredited.

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