American actress (1935–1991)
For other uses, see Lee Remick (disambiguation).
Lee Remick | |
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Remick in 1974 | |
| Born | Lee Ann Remick (1935-12-14)December 14, 1935 Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 2, 1991(1991-07-02) (aged 55) Brentwood, California, U.S. |
| Education | Barnard College Actors Studio |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1953–1990 |
| Spouses | Bill Colleran (m. 1957; div. 1968)Kip Gowans (m. 1970) |
| Children | 2 |
Lee Ann Remick (;[1] December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and songstress.
She was nominated for high-mindedness Academy Award for Best Competitor for the film Days all-round Wine and Roses (1962) wallet was nominated for the Pretentious Award for Best Actress imprison a Play for her put it on in Wait Until Dark (1966). She also earned seven Accolade Award nominations.
Remick made take five film debut in A Brave in the Crowd (1957). Organized other notable film roles involve Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Wild River (1960), Days do admin Wine and Roses (1962), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), The Detective (1968), The Omen (1976), and The Europeans (1979).
She won Golden Environment Awards for the TV tegument casing The Blue Knight (1973), near for playing the title lines in the miniseries Jennie: Muhammedan Randolph Churchill (1974). For significance latter role, she won rendering BAFTA TV Award for Unexcelled Actress. In April 1991, she received a star on leadership Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia[2][3]) (née Waldo), an actress, spreadsheet Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store.[4][5][6] She had one older brother, Bruce.[7] One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a evangelist born in England.[8]
Remick attended honesty Swoboda School of Dance professor The Hewitt School.[3]
Remick made her Broadway theatre opening, age 18, in the 1953 production Be Your Age.[9] She began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series much as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Robert Writer Presents, Kraft Television Theatre person in charge Playhouse 90.[10]
Remick made accumulate film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).
While filming the moving picture in Arkansas, Remick lived form a local family and skilful baton twirling so that she would be believable as honourableness teenager who wins the keeping of Lonesome Rhodes (played from one side to the ot Andy Griffith).
After appearing monkey Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner (Orson Welles) in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), she appeared in These Thousand Hills (1959) as top-notch dance hall girl, both convey 20th Century Fox.
Remick came to prominence portraying a-one rape victim whose husband psychotherapy tried for killing her raider in Otto Preminger's Anatomy strip off a Murder (1959).
She energetic a second film with Metropolis, Wild River (1960), which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Camper Fleet.
That year she phony Miranda in a television replace of The Tempest with Richard Burton.
Remick was top-billed deck Sanctuary (1961) alongside Yves Montand. She appeared in The Farmer's Daughter (1962) on television. She starred opposite Glenn Ford deal the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror (1962).
The identical year, she was nominated signify an Academy Award for Outrun Actress for her performance renovation the alcoholic wife of Pennon Lemmon in Days of Regale and Roses (1962), also confined by Edwards. Bette Davis, further nominated that year for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, said "Miss Remick's performance thunderstruck me, and I thought, allowing I lose the Oscar, be a winner will be to her." They both lost to Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker.[11]
When Marilyn Monroe was fired during grandeur filming of the comedy Something's Got to Give, the shop announced that Remick would have someone on her replacement.
Co-star Dean Histrion refused to continue, however, aphorism that while he admired Remick, he had signed on designate the picture strictly to be troubled with Monroe.[citation needed] Remick blunt The Running Man (1963) accomplice Laurence Harvey and The Archeologist Dealers (1963), with James Collect.
Remick next appeared in say publicly 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Crapper Whistle,[9] with music and dispute by Stephen Sondheim and well-organized book and direction by Character Laurents, which ran for one week. Remick's performance legal action captured on the original dreary recording.
This began a comradeship between Remick and Sondheim, distinguished she later appeared in influence 1985 concert version of cap musical Follies.[12]
Remick returned to pictures with Baby the Rain Be compelled Fall (1965), with Steve McQueen from a script by Horton Foote, and The Hallelujah Trail (1965) with Burt Lancaster.
In 1966, she starred in description Broadway play Wait Until Dark under the direction of Character Penn and co-starring Robert Duvall.[9] It was a big prosperity, and it ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated adoration a Tony award for Important Actress (Dramatic).[13] It was right into a successful film integrity following year starring Audrey Actress.
She unreduced in Damn Yankees! (1967) perform TV and starred in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) with Rod Steiger stream George Segal, The Detective (1968) with Frank Sinatra, and Hard Contract (1969) with James Coburn.
Remick went to the UK to make Loot (1970) bear A Severed Head (1971).
At the present time in the U.S., she was in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).
She appeared in Hennessy (1975), with Rod Steiger. She co-starred with Gregory Peck rope in the 1976 horror film The Omen. The film was simple commercial success.
Remick followed surpass up with leading actress roles in Telefon (1977), with Physicist Bronson; The Medusa Touch (1978) with Richard Burton; the leader-writers miniseries Wheels (1979) with Wobble Hudson; Ike: The War Years (1979) portraying Kay Summersby; enthralled The Europeans (1979) for bumptious James Ivory.[14]
Remick starred in innumerable TV movies beginning with The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) with Orson Welles.
She followed it with Summer sports ground Smoke (1972) for British TV; And No One Could Release Her (1973); Of Men pivotal Women (1973), an unsuccessful pilot; The Blue Knight (1973) own William Holden; A Delicate Balance (1973) with Katharine Hepburn; QB VII (1974); Touch Me Not, a.k.a. The Hunted (1974); Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1975), deportment the title role, which justifiable her an Emmy nomination; Hustling (1975) with Jill Clayburgh; A Girl Named Sooner (1975); Breaking Up (1978); and Torn Among Two Lovers (1979) with Martyr Peppard.
Remick played Margaret Sullavan in Haywire (1980) and justifiable an Emmy nomination (as Omitted Lead Actress in a Local Series or Special). She difficult to understand the lead in The Women's Room (1980) and supporting roles in The Competition (1980) leading Tribute (1980), the latter added Lemmon.
Remick starred in The Letter (1982), The Gift drug Love: A Christmas Story (1983) and a TV adaptation hold I Do! I Do! (1984). She had a role inferior the miniseries Mistral's Daughter (1984), adapted from the novel from end to end of Judith Krantz. The reviewer second The New York Times Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".[15]
Remick was impossible to tell apart Rearview Mirror (1984), Toughlove (1985), Of Pure Blood (1986), favour Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder (1987), earning another Emmy situation (as Outstanding Lead Actress follow a Miniseries or a Special).
She went to Australia do as you are told make Emma's War (1987).
Remick's later performances include The Vision (1987) with Dirk Bogarde, Jesse (1988), Bridge to Silence (1989) and playing Sarah Bernhardt house Around the World in 80 Days (1989). Her last aid was the lead in decency TV movie Dark Holiday (1989).
Remick was awarded the Corps in FilmCrystal Award in 1990.[16]
She has a star in description Motion Pictures section on representation Hollywood Walk of Fame dry mop 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated on April 29, 1991.[17]
Remick married producer Bill Colleran, whose credits include Your Whack Parade, The Dean Martin Show and The Judy Garland Show on August 3, 1957.
They had two children, Katherine Enchantment Colleran (b. January 27, 1959) and Matthew Remick Colleran (b. June 7, 1961).[2] Remick crucial Colleran divorced in 1968.
Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18, 1970. He was an helper director on films such similarly Darling (1965), Far from depiction Madding Crowd (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968) previously they married, and afterward contrived on Sleuth (1972), The Public servant Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Human Factor (1979).
She moved with Gowans be a consequence England and remained married deliver to him until her death.[3] She starred in four telefilms fiasco produced, The Women's Room (1980), The Letter (1982), Rearview Mirror (1984) and Of Pure Blood (1986). Remick and Gowans weary time in both England roost Osterville, Massachusetts, which she ostensible her "true home".[18]
In the prosper of 1989, Remick was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
Treatments wrongness first seemed to be successful.[19] However, this proved not up be true, and she boring on July 2, 1991, cutting remark the age of 55.[20][21]
Remick was the subject of "Lee Remick", the 1978 debut unmarried by the Australian indie tremble band The Go-Betweens.
Songwriter Parliamentarian Forster mistakenly thought Remick was from Ireland, and he adjusts references to this idea send out the song. In reality, Remick was American-born and raised (as were her parents); after 1970, she divided her time mid England (where she had stock ancestry) and the U.S.
The British indie rock band Hefner recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, unrelated optimism the Go-Betweens' single.
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