LEE REMICK

'Lee Ann Remick' (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959), ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), and ''The Omen'', as Katherine Thorn (1976).

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

Movies

Stage plays

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts to Francis Edwin Remick, who owned a department store,^[1] and Margaret Patricia Waldo.^[2] She attended the Swaboda School of Dance and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors' Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with "Be Your Age".

Career

Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's ''A Face in the Crowd'' (1957). When they filmed the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the heart of "Lonesome Rhodes" (played by Andy Griffith). In 1962 she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in ''Days of Wine and Roses''.
Remick appeared in the 1964 musical ''Anyone Can Whistle'', written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents; the highly unconventional show ran for only a week, although Remick's performance is captured on the popular original cast recording. This began a lifelong friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the landmark 1985 concert version of his musical ''Follies''. Remick received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her role as a blind woman terrorized by drug smugglers in the hit play "Wait Until Dark" (the character was played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version).
Besides movies, Remick also starred in several made-for-TV miniseries or movies (for which she earned seven Emmy nominations), mostly of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries were she and Robert Duvall played Kay Summersby and General Eisenhower, respectively:

"Mistral's Daughter" (1984) TV mini-series

"Ike" (1979) TV miniseries … Kay Summersby, Eisenhower's driver & aide

"Wheels" (1978) TV miniseries … Erica Trenton

… aka Arthur Hailey's Wheels

"Ike: The War Years" (1978) TV miniseries … Kay Summersby

"Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill" (1974) TV miniseries … Jennie Jerome

"QB VII" (1974) TV miniseries … Lady Margaret Alexander Weidman
Remick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd.

Personal life

Remick's first husband was Bill Colleran, an American television producer, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was British film producer Kip Gowans.
Remick also had a brief affair with Frank Sinatra.
Remick died in 1991 at age 55 in Los Angeles, California of kidney and liver cancer.

Filmography

Movies

★ ''A Face in the Crowd'' (1957)

★ ''The Long, Hot Summer'' (1958)

★ ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959)

★ ''Wild River'' (1960)

★ ''Experiment in Terror'' (1962)

★ ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962) (nominated for an Oscar)

★ The Running Man (1963)

★ ''The Wheeler Dealers'' (1963)

★ ''The Hallelujah Trail'' (1965)

★ ''Baby the Rain Must Fall'' (1965)

★ ''The Detective'' (1968)

★ ''Sometimes a Great Notion'' (1971)

★ ''A Delicate Balance'' (1973) — Julia

★ ''The Omen'' (1976)

★ ''The Medusa Touch'' (1978)

★ ''Telefon'' (1977) — Barbara

★ ''The Europeans'' (1979)

★ ''The Competition'' (1980)

★ ''Tribute'' (1980)

Stage plays

★ ''Be Your Age'' (1953)

★ ''Anyone Can Whistle'' (1964)

★ ''Wait Until Dark'' (1966)

References

1. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=765
2. http://www.rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm

External links

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★ Internet Broadway Database listing