Lee Remick
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| Birth name | Lee Ann Remick | |||||||||
| Born | December 14 1935 Quincy, Massachusetts | |||||||||
| Died | July 2 1991 (aged 55) Los Angeles, California | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Bill Colleran (1957-1968) Kip Gowans (1970-1991) | |||||||||
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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).
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[edit] Biography
[edit] 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".
[edit] Career
Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). When they were filming 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).
Remick also starred in several made-for-TV movies or miniseries (for which she earned seven Emmy nominations), mostly of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries were she portrayed Kay Summersby and Robert Duvall played General Eisenhower:
- QB VII - (1974; Lady Margaret Alexander Weidman)
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - (1974; Jennie Jerome)
- Ike: The War Years - (1978; Kay Summersby)
- Wheels - (1978; Erica Trenton)
- Ike - (1979; Kay Summersby, Eisenhower's driver & aide)
- Mistral's Daughter - (1984)
Remick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.
[edit] 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 died in 1991 at age 55 in Los Angeles, California of kidney and liver cancer.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] 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)
- No Way to Treat a Lady (1967)
- The Detective (1968)
- Hard Contract (1969)
- 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)
- Passport to Terror (1989)
[edit] Stage plays
- Be Your Age (1953)
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
- Wait Until Dark (1966)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Lee Remick at the Internet Movie Database
- Lee Remick at the Internet Broadway Databasede:Lee Remick
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