Lee Remick
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| Born | Lee Ann Remick December 14, 1935 Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Kidney and liver cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–1989 |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Colleran (1957–1968; divorced; 2 children) Kip Gowans (1970–1991; her death) |
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an 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 (1976).
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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.
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 a box office hit, in spite of negative reviews.
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 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 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
| 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 | |
| 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 – 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 | The 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 |
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 |
See also
References
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