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Director John Ford decided to cast Lemmon after seeing his Columbia screen test, which had been directed by Richard Quine. At an impromptu meeting on the studio lot, Ford persuaded the actor to appear in the film, although Lemmon did not realize he was in conversation with Ford at the time. Tony Curtis and Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)
Jack was a member of the Harvard class of 1947, where he was in Navy ROTC and the Dramatic Club. After service as a Navy ensign, he worked in a beer hall (playing piano), on radio, off Broadway, TV and Broadway.
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From 1959 to 1972 Mr. Lemmon was to Billy Wilder what Clint Eastwood was to Don Siegel and what Marcello Mastroianni was to Fellini -- the perfect actor to express a director's vision. Mr.
Jun 29, 2001 · Jack Lemmon, who has died of cancer aged 76, was the most successful tragi-comedian of his age, and twice an Oscar winner.
- The Odd Couple. Writer Neil Simon and director Gene Saks' "The Odd Couple" is Jack Lemmon's and Walter Matthau's second film together, and possibly their most famous.
- Mister Roberts. Only four films into his Hollywood career, the 30-year-old Lemmon landed the role of the lazy Ensign Pulver in the Naval comedy "Mister Roberts."
- Some Like It Hot. "Some Like It Hot" follows Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon), two Chicago jazz musicians who accidentally witness a Mafia-style murder.
- Irma La Douche. Initially a 1956 French stage musical written by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort, "Irma La Douce" was brought to Broadway by David Merrick in 1960.
Career: After graduating from Harvard, worked as a piano player at the Old Nick saloon in New York, 1948; worked as an actor in radio soap opera; was producer and actor in several TV series: That Wonderful Guy , 1949–50, The Couple Next Door , 1950, The Ad-Libbers , 1951, and Heaven for Betsy , 1952, all with Cynthia Stone; made Broadway debut...
Jun 28, 2001 · June 28, 2001. LOS ANGELES -- Jack Lemmon, the two-time Oscar winner whose acting talents ranged from adroit comedies "The Apartment" and "Some Like It Hot" to the dramatic intensity of "Days...
