Lee Remick

Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, and for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Wait Until Dark.

Remick made her film debut in 1957 in A Face in the Crowd. Her other notable film roles include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Wild River (1960), The Detective (1968), The Omen (1976), and The Europeans (1979). She won Golden Globe Awards for the 1973 TV film The Blue Knight, and for playing the title role in the 1974 miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill. For the latter role, she also won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. In April 1991, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Recognition 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Popular culture 7 Filmography 7.1 Film 7.2 Television 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

Early life
Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia[1][2]) (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store.[3][4][5] Her maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England and her paternal grandfather was of Irish ancestry.[6] Remick attended the Swaboda School of Dance, the Hewitt School[2] and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with Be Your Age.[7]

Career
Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). While 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 attention of Lonesome Rhodes (played by Andy Griffith).

After appearing as Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner (Orson Welles) in 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, she appeared in These Thousand Hills (1959) as a dance hall girl. Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder. In 1960, she made a second film with Kazan, Wild River, which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet.

Rehearsing with director George Cukor in 1962 In 1962 she starred opposite Glenn Ford in the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror. That same year she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses. Bette Davis, also nominated that year for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, said "Miss Remick's performance astonished me, and I thought, if I lose the Oscar, it will be to her." They both lost to Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker.

When Marilyn Monroe was fired during the filming of the comedy Something's Got to Give, the studio announced that Remick would be her replacement. Co-star Dean Martin refused to continue, however, saying that while he admired Remick, he had signed onto the picture strictly to be able to work with Monroe.

Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle,[7] written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, which ran for only a week. Remick's performance is captured on the 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. In 1966, she starred in the Broadway play Wait Until Dark,[7] which was another big success and Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).[8] It was adapted into a successful film the following year starring Audrey Hepburn.

Remick continued to star in major films throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, including Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), The Detective (1968), Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), and A Delicate Balance (1973).

She co-starred with Gregory Peck in the 1976 horror film The Omen, in which her character's adopted son, Damien, is revealed to be the Anti-Christ. The film was both a critical and commercial success and was regarded as one of the best horror films ever made.

Remick later appeared in several made-for-TV movies and miniseries, for which she earned a total of seven Emmy nominations. Several were of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries: Ike, in which she portrayed Kay Summersby, alongside Robert Duvall (her co-star in Wait Until Dark) as General Dwight Eisenhower, and Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill where she portrayed Winston Churchill's mother, the American debutante Jennie Jerome who married Lord Randolph Churchill.[9]

Recognition
Remick was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1990.[10]

She has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. (The Hollywood Walk of Fame site lists it at 1615 Vine Street.) It was dedicated April 29, 1991.[11]

Personal life
Remick in 1960 Remick married producer Bill Colleran in 1957. They had two children, Katherine and Matthew.[1] Remick and Colleran divorced in 1968. She married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans in December 1970. She moved with Gowans to England and remained married to him until her death.[2]

Death
Remick died of kidney and liver cancer on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55, at her home in Los Angeles. Survivors included her husband, her son, her daughter, two stepdaughters, and her mother.[12]

Popular culture
Remick was the subject of The Go-Betweens' first single, "Lee Remick," as well as Hefner's 1998 single of the same title (the two songs are unrelated).

Filmography
Film

Remick (left) with Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal on the set of A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1957 A Face in the Crowd Betty Lou Fleckum Film debut 1958 The Long, Hot Summer Eula Varner 1959 These Thousand Hills Callie 1959 Anatomy of a Murder Laura Manion Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama 1960 Wild River Carol Garth Baldwin 1961 Sanctuary Temple Drake 1962 Experiment in Terror Kelly Sherwood Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama 1963 The Running Man Stella 1963 The Wheeler Dealers Molly Thatcher 1965 Baby the Rain Must Fall Georgette Thomas 1965 The Hallelujah Trail Cora Templeton Massingale 1968 No Way to Treat a Lady Kate Palmer 1968 The Detective Karen 1969 Hard Contract Sheila Metcalfe 1970 Loot Nurse Fay McMahon 1970 A Severed Head Antonia Lynch-Gibbon 1971 Sometimes a Great Notion Viv Stamper 1973 A Delicate Balance Julia 1974 Touch Me Not Elanor 1975 Hennessy Kate Brooke 1976 The Omen Katherine Thorn 1977 Telefon Barbara 1978 The Medusa Touch Doctor Zonfeld 1979 The Europeans Eugenia Young 1980 The Competition Greta Vandemann 1980 Tribute Maggie Stratton 1986 Emma's War Anne Grange
 * 1962 Days of Wine and Roses Kirsten Arnesen Clay Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress

Television

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1960 The Tempest Miranda Television movie 1962 The Farmer's Daughter Katrin Holstrom Television movie 1967 Damn Yankees Lola Television movie 1972 The Man Who Came to Dinner Maggie Cutler Television movie 1973 And No One Could Save Her Fern O'Neil Television movie 1973 The Blue Knight Cassie Walters Television movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1974 QB VII Lady Margaret 2 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1974 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill 7 episodes BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1975 Hustling Fran Morrison Television movie 1975 A Girl Named Sooner Elizabeth McHenry Television movie 1977 The Ambassadors Maria Gostrey Television movie 1978 Ike: The War Years Kay Summersby Television movie 1978 Wheels Erica Trenton Television movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1979 Torn Between Two Lovers Diana Conti Television movie 1979 Ike Kay Summersby Television movie 1980 Haywire Margaret Sullavan Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1980 The Women's Room Mira Adams Television movie 1982 I Do! I Do! She Television movie 1982 The Letter Leslie Crosbie Television movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 1983 The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story Janet Broderick Television movie 1984 Mistral's Daughter Kate Browning TV miniseries 1984 A Good Sport Michelle Tenney Television movie 1984 Rearview Mirror Terry Seton Television movie 1985 Toughlove Jan Charters Television movie 1985 The Snow Queen The Snow Queen Faerie Tale Theatre 1986 American Playhouse Eleanor Roosevelt Episode: "Eleanor: In Her Own Words" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Informational Programming 1986 Of Pure Blood Alicia Browning Television movie 1987 Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder Frances Schreuder Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1988 Jesse Jesse Maloney Television movie 1989 Bridge to Silence Marge Duffield Television movie 1989 Around the World in 80 Days Sarah Bernhardt 3 episodes 1989 Dark Holiday Gene LePere Television movie, (Last appearance)