Lee Remick
Lee Remick | |
|---|---|
 Remick in 1974 | |
| Born | Lee Ann Remick December 14, 1935 Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 2, 1991 (aged 55) |
| Education | Barnard College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1953–1989 |
| Spouse(s) |
Bill Colleran
(m. 1957; div. 1968)Kip Gowans
(m. 1970; "her death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1991) |
| Children | 2 |
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 theatre performance 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.
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] She had one older brother, Bruce.[6] One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.[7]
Remick attended the Swaboda School of Dance, the Hewitt School,[2] and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors Studio.
Career
Broadway and television
Remick made her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with Be Your Age.[8] She began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Theatre and Playhouse 90.[9]
Early films
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, both for 20th Century Fox.
Film stardom
Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
In 1960, she made a second film with Kazan, Wild River, which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet. That year she played Miranda in a TV version of The Tempest with Richard Burton.
Remick was top billed in Sanctuary (1961) alongside Yves Montand. She did The Farmer's Daughter (1962) on television.
In 1962 she starred opposite Glenn Ford in the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror (1962).
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 (1962), also directed by Edwards. Bette Davis, also nominated that year for What Ever 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.
She did a thriller, The Running Man (1963) and a comedy with James Garner, The Wheeler Dealers (1963).
Return to Broadway
Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle,[8] with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book and direction by 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.[10]
Remick returned to films with Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), with Steve McQueen from a script by Horton Foote, and The Hallelujah Trail (1965) with Burt Lancaster.
In 1966, she starred in the Broadway play Wait Until Dark under the direction of Arthur Penn and co-starring Robert Duvall.[8] It was a big success and ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).[11] It was adapted into a successful film the following year starring Audrey Hepburn.
More films
She performed in Damn Yankees! (1967) for TV and starred in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) with Rod Steiger and George Segal, The Detective (1968) with Frank Sinatra, and Hard Contract (1969) with James Coburn.
Remick went to England to make Loot (1970) and A Severed Head (1971). Back in the US she was in Paul Newman's Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).
TV movies
Remick starred in many TV movies beginning with The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) with Orson Welles. She followed it with Summer and Smoke (1972) for British TV; And No One Could Save Her (1973); Of Men and Women (1973), an unsuccessful pilot; The Blue Knight (1973) with William Holden; A Delicate Balance (1973) with Katharine Hepburn; QB VII (1974); Touch Me Not (1974); Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1975), playing the title role, which earned her an Emmy nomination; Hustling (1975) with Jill Clayburgh; A Girl Named Sooner (1975); and Hennessy (1975) with Rod Steiger.
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 Antichrist. The film was both a critical and commercial success and was regarded as one of the best horror films ever made.
She followed it up with leading actress roles in Telefon (1977), with Charles Bronson; Breaking Up (1978) for US TV; The Medusa Touch (1978) with Richard Burton; Wheels (1979) with Rock Hudson;Torn Between Two Lovers (1979); Ike: The War Years (1979) with Duvall, playing Kay Summersby; and The Europeans (1979) for James Ivory.[12]
1980s
Remick played Margaret Sullavan in Haywire (1980). She had the lead in The Women's Room (1980), and supported in The Competition (1980) and Tribute (1980), the latter with Lemmon.
Remick starred in The Letter (1982), The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) and a TV adaptation of I Do! I Do! (1984).
She is also remembered for Mistral's Daughter (1984). The reviewer of The New York Times praised Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".[13]
Remick was in Rearview Mirror (1985), Toughlove (1985), Of Pure Blood (1986), and Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987). She went to Australia to make Emma's War (1987).
Remick's final performances include The Vision (1987) with Dirk Bogarde, Jesse (1988), Bridge to Silence (1989) and playing Sarah Bernhardt in Around the World in 80 Days (1989). Her last performance was the lead in a TV movie Dark Holiday (1989).
Recognition
Remick was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1990.[14]
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.[15]
Personal life
Remick married producer Bill Colleran, whose credits include Your Hit Parade, The Dean Martin Show and The Judy Garland Show, on August 3, 1957. They had two children, Katherine Lee Colleran (b. January 27, 1959) and Matthew Remick Colleran (b. June 7, 1961).[1] Remick and Colleran divorced in 1968.
Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18, 1970. He was an assistant director on such films as Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968) before they married, and afterwards worked on Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Human Factor (1979). She moved with Gowans to England and remained married to him until her death.[2] She starred in four telefilms he produced, The Women's Room (1980), The Letter (1982), Rearview Mirror (1984) and Of Pure Blood (1986). Remick and Gowans spent time in both England and Osterville, Massachusetts, which she considered her "true home".[16]
Through her daughter, Remick had two grandchildren.
Remick died of kidney cancer on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55, at her Brentwood home in Los Angeles.[17]
Popular culture
Remick was the subject of "Lee Remick", the 1978 debut single by the Australian indie rock band The Go-Betweens. The British indie rock band Hefner recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, unrelated to the Go-Betweens' single.
Filmography
Film
| 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 in a Motion Picture – Drama |
| 1960 | Wild River | Carol Garth Baldwin | |
| 1961 | Sanctuary | Temple Drake | |
| 1962 | Experiment in Terror | Kelly Sherwood | |
| 1962 | Days of Wine and Roses | Kirsten Arnesen Clay | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a 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 | |
| 1988 | Emma's War | Anne Grange | Final film |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Studio One | Jessie Benson | Episode: "The Death and Life of Larry Benson"[18] |
| 1956 | Studio One | Elaine Baylee | Episode: "The Landlady's Daughter" |
| 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 |
| 1972 | 'Summer and Smoke' | Alma Winemiller | BBC Play of the Month, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Alvin Rakoff |
| 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 Limited Series or Movie |
| 1974 | QB VII | Lady Margaret | 2 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | 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 Limited Series or 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 Limited Series or 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 Limited Series or 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 Limited Series or Movie |
| 1988 | Jesse | Jesse Maloney | Television movie |
| 1988 | The Vision | Grace Gardner | 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, (final film role) a.k.a. Passport to Terror[19] |
References
- ^ a b Mead, Mimi (April 6, 1967). "She Prefers Musicals". The Daily Reporter. Dover, Ohio. p. 7. Retrieved September 26, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Shearer, Lloyd (January 11, 1976). "Lee Remick: From Baton Twirler to 'Jennie'". The San Bernardino County Sun. pp. 99–100. Retrieved September 26, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Playing Jennie The Churchill Centre[dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 3, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Lee Remick: From A Face To A Firm Place In The Hollywood Crowd". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 3, 1991.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/obituaries/lee-remick-55-actress-in-roles-from-enticing-to-tormented-dies.html. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Champlin, Charles (March 6, 1990). "Remick Endures Despite Personal Ordeal: Profile: Actress waged a 'drastic and horrible and successful' fight against kidney cancer. Now, she prepares for a role in the miniseries 'The Young Catherine.'". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b c "Lee Remick". Playbill. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ Anderson, Robert (22 August 1959). "TV Saw Her First!" Chicago Daily Tribune: B5.
- ^ Smith, Cecil (15 October 1963). "Lee Is Singing and She's Glad". Los Angeles Times: D8.
- ^ "Search Results: Lee Remick". Tony Awards. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ Smith, Cecil (30 April 1979). "A Rush of Lee Remick on Television" Los Angeles Times: E1.
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'Mistral's Daughter' Starts Tonight". The New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
- ^ "Past Recipients: Crystal Award". Women In Film. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
- ^ "Lee Remick". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ Lambert, Lane (December 10, 2014). "Actress Lee Remick, a Quincy native, would have been 75 today". The Patriot Ledger. Quincy, Massachusetts. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- ^ Yarrow, Andrew L. (July 3, 1991). "Lee Remick, 55, Actress in Roles From Enticing to Tormented, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^ "The Death and Life of Larry Benson". IMDb.
- ^ decades on CBS
External links
- Lee Remick at AllMovie
- Lee Remick at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lee Remick at IMDb
- Lee Remick at the TCM Movie Database
- Lee Remick at Find a Grave
- Lee Remick at filmreference.com
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