Jack Lemmon. A simple American guy. / Jack Lemmon. America's Everyman Documentary (USA, 1996)
Directed by: Jane Feldman
« It's time magic
» - a phrase used to say to himself, Jack Lemmon, before filming began. He could be in the movies and various performances, and at the same time, always remained himself, which is very impressed by the audience. According to authoritative film critic Richard Corliss, "no one has not invested more intellectual energy in a Hollywood comedy style than Mr. Lemmon incredible ".
" If I had to choose only one actor to work with for the rest of my career, it would be Jack Lemmon. "- Blake Edwards
"Give around a little bit of sunshine "- these were the last words of the father of Jack Lemmon's son. The father does not approve of his son work acting, but advised continue doing things you love until it's time, while he likes. Lemmon gave sunlight for half a century. American film critic for a long time trying to articulate - what is the secret of the phenomenal success of Lemmon, "
divine clown 
08.02.1925 - 27.06.2001
February 8, 1925 Doctors Hospital campus of Newton at Boston two hours to use the elevator, because his cab had given birth to Mrs. Mildret Lemmon - known in Boston, a young society lady. The fact that she would not want to miss a game of bridge in the evening, though something similar to the contractions started in the morning. And she brought in an elevator. Newborn child was a boy and a cynical midwife, looking pregnant woman with the surname - Lemmon - which in English means lemon, exclaimed: "Look at this little yellow lemon. Since then, Jack Lemmon was teased lemon sex life - from the junior school and up to the first Oscar.
Jack with his mother 
His father held a high position in the company Doughnut Corporation of America; craving for art gave him the most likely from the mother - she really wanted to become a singer, but abandoned their dreams under the pressure of parents. Jack soon realized that he wanted to become an actor - after the school setting has replaced a sick boy, and then no longer represented themselves to other classes. He tried to play almost all the school plays - good competition, he almost was not. After graduating from Phillips Andover Academy Lemmon attended Harvard University. While studying at Harvard, Jack threw a favorite pastime - indeed, he became president of the university drama circle (his rival for the post bore the name of Apple), and in addition to acting, tried his hand as an author of plays.
1947 Jack Lemmon graduated from Harvard University, and in 1922 went to serve in the Navy. After graduating from the service as a lieutenant, Jack moved to New York, his first job became a music hall, where He played the piano during a demonstration of films, was moonlighting as a bouncer and sometimes acted with comic numbers. Soon, Jack was able to work on the radio, while the various radio shows were very popular in America, and Lemmon earned good money. The next stage of career, Lemmon became Work on television - a lot of it was filmed, and given that all the transfers at the time went live - it was hard work, but also a very good school.
In 1949, he first appears on the screen with a small role plasterer-painter in the film "Lady takes a sailor» (The Lady Takes a Sailor), and on television with a small role in the show "suspense» (Suspense). But the real Lemmon debut in cinema was in the comedy "It's going to happen to you» (It Should Happen To You, 1954). Everyone thought Jack is very talented, and soon to be "documentary" evidence - one of his next role - in the war drama "Mister Roberts» (Mister Roberts, 1955), the famous director John Ford - Earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
the movie "Mister Roberts" 
James Cagney, William Powell, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Jack Lemmon - the team the movie "Mister Roberts" 
With Burt Lancaster
Jack Lemmon with his first wife Cynthia Stone
Jack Lemmon and his son, Chris, eat at the top of the Space Needle. May 24, 1962
with son Chris Lemmon
interesting that in the 1950s producers of studio Warner Bros. Lemmon tried to persuade to change his surname to the pseudonym of "Lennon" afraid that the critics would use assonance "Lemmon - Lemon against the actor, as it was with him in his childhood. And his full name sounds like John "Jack" Uhler Lemmon third (John "Jack" Uhler Lemmon III), and on the school records future star of the cinema was listed as Jack Lemmon, Y. (Jack U. Lemmon, which can be translated as "Jack you a lemon"). So Anyway, Lemmon flatly refused to change the name, saying that the nickname "Lennon" will be associated with the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on the wave anti-communist sentiment in the U.S. at that time, the leadership of Warner Bros. retreated. 
After a promising start and triumph at the Oscars, the Lemmon was no shortage of offers, but mostly it was the role - in his own definition - fidgety clowns. The true depth of talent of Jack Lemmon saw the famous film director Billy Wilder, who offered him a major role in his new comedy, "Some like it hot "- a Soviet-hire" Some Like It Hot "- (Some Like It Hot, 1959). It is because of this brilliant film about two hapless jazzman who were forced into hiding of the Chicago mob in the women's jazz band, the name of Lemmon became known throughout the world. Performance as Jerry (Daphne) has turned a triumph for Lemmon, brought his new nomination for an Oscar. 
Tony Curtis "Josephine" and Jack Lemmon, "Daphne" 
Billy Wilder Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
Joe E. Brown, Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder
Jack with his future wife Felicia Farr
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Montgomery Clift
Here, of course, appeared and personality traits of the Lemmon. His agent told me that Jack is forever ruined business contracts, because in his absence, agreed to all conditions. Jack was easier to die than to tell someone "no." Inspired by the films of Wilder his sardonic vision of a modern society in which everything can be bought and sold, Lemmon, and refused offers from other directors. One of the most important in his life he considered the role of the alcoholic in ostrosotsialnoy drama Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses »(Days of wine and roses, 1962), which added to its piggy bank has one nomination for an Oscar.
"Days of Wine and Roses - Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
Blake Edwards, Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon 
with Shirley McClain in Paris filming the movie "Sweet Irma" (1963)
In 1964, Lemmon played in the play "The Odd Couple» (Odd Couple), together with the actor Walter Matthau, who became his closest friend. In tandem with Lemmon Matthau starred in ten films, from "Gambling luck» (Fortube Cookie, 1966) and the film version of "Odd Couple" (Odd Couple, 1968) and ending with "old duddy» (Grumpy old men, 1993) and its sequel "The old grumblers raged» (Grumpier old men, 1995). For thirty years, Lemmon and Matthau were one of the most recognizable and loved comic duos in the history of American cinema. 
Odd Couple (1968)
on the film "Odd Couple" - Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon with director Jean Sachs 
Gambling Luck (1966) - Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon and Judy West 
Excitement luck (1966)
with actress Virna Lisi - together they starred in the film "How to sew my little wife"
Hollywood stars Cyd Charisse, Jack Lemmon and Joan Collins enjoy themselves during a party at the Grand Hotel in Rome , October 14th
Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve in the movie "April madness (1969)
Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in the movie" Fire from Below "(1957)
Great Race (1965)
with Blake Edwards 
1960 and in personal life Lemon were years of great change. Broke his Early first marriage to Cynthia Stone, and a new love at first sight and the rest of his life. In 1962 he married actress Felicia Farr. In the 60 years Jack Lemmon as a leading comedian of America, a movie star left Hollywood in New York and began playing in the Broadway play, replacing huge fees in Hollywood the modest earnings of theatrics. He started with the theater and never cheated on his goal - to combine theater with cinema.
Jack Lemmon with his second "Oscar", 1973 
In 1977, Lemmon starred in the movie "Airport 1977» (Airport '77), together with his son, Chris Lemmon. Since the second half of the 1970 appearance of the actor on the big screen were rather sporadic. One of its most tragic roles - Michael Douglas in the movie "The China Syndrome» (China Syndrome, 1979) - was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Similar awards won and the next major work in the film Costa-Gavras' Missing in Action »(Missing, 1982). In 1998 he was promoted to telepremiyu Emmy, but lost to Ving Rhames, who immediately summoned Lemmon from the audience and presented him with a statue - as a more worthy candidate. 
Chris Lemmon poses with dad's first Oscar 
Regular nominations for Golden Globe wait actor for his roles in the film "That's life" and "Dad" - and between them - for television work, "The long journey of the day into the night" and "Murder of Mary Fagan. Lemmon Jobs with director Oliver Stone and a brilliant ensemble cast in the face of Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman in the movie «JFK. Shots in Dallas " not receive awards - but then two years Lemmon gets the prize in Venice Film Festival - for the painting "The Americans" by James Foley and "Short installation by Robert Altman.
TV projects involved increasing part in the life of an elderly actor - that brought him another nomination for "Golden Globe", "Life in the Theatre, and of course the famous painting of" 12 Angry Men "by William Friedkin, the remake of the famous film Sidney Lumet 1957; for this role, Lemmon was nominated for a Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award (soon he will receive this award once again - for his role in the film "Tuesdays with Morrie"). In the year 2000 Lemmon received another award - the Golden Globe for his work in the film "Inherit the Wind" (for this role, the actor also was nominated for an Emmy).
Jack Lemmon and his son Chris in the movie Blake Edwards' That's life! "(That's Life, 1986). Together, Jack and Chris also played in "Airport 1977" (1977), and "That's life!" Lemmon appeared not only Chris, but with Felicia.
In 2000, the year in the movie "Tuesdays with Morrie," he depicted his own death - a year before the present. The plot is simple: a journalist Mitch learns that the professor Morrie Schwartz, with whom he once was in college - at the death. Mitch decides to visit an old man - and communicate with him completely changes the outlook of a young man who opens his eyes to the true values of the world. 
"Anything worth having is worth suffering for, isn’t it?" "I'm spreading a little sunshine throughout the day!"
"I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic."
"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." "Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."
"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.""How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?"
"I think it stinks."
"Death ends a life not a relationship."
"We're doing very serious stuff .... but some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not serious at all, and also not repeatable."
"It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon."
"I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting."
"If you really want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
"Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor."
"Some Like It Hot...Nobody's Perfect."
[on Marilyn Monroe]
"Marilyn had an incredible charisma that was so rare, I don't think I've seen anything quite like it. She had a lot of talent as an actress and she used that talent to the best of her ability as well as her skills as a comedienne, which worked out marvelously for her as with that combined, she created that certain magic on film. I loved working with her and a lot of people say that is clear in our scenes together. I absolutely adored her and we got on wonderfully."
[on Judy Holliday]
"She was intelligent and not at all like the dumb blondes she so often depicted. She didn't give a damn where the camera was placed, how she was made to look, or about being a star. She just played the scene -- acted with, not at. She was also one of the nicest people I ever met."
[on Tony Curtis]
"One of my best pals and a tremendous actor. He's a kind of brother that I never had, along with Walter [Matthau]. We wore dresses together and raced against each other in another film - all in the name of comedy films! A wonderful friend."
[on Billy Wilder]
[on Walter Matthau]
"Walter is the helluva actor. One of the best I've ever worked with."[on Shirley MacLaine]
"She hated rehearsals and had a bad habit of ad-libbing, which didn't set well with Billy Wilder. But we got used to each other, because mainly she's a helluva girl."
Marilyn Monroe [co-star in Some Like It Hot]: "Jack Lemmon is the funniest man in the world!"
Tony Curtis [co-star in 'Some Like It Hot' and 'The Great Race'] "Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he's a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. We're like brothers. We are gifts to each other. He's got such a fun personality, both on screen and off. Yes. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon."
Billy Wilder [director of 'Some Like It Hot' and The Apartment']: "Jack Lemmon is the best actor I've ever worked with, he's a thinking actor. Not only that, but he's one of the greatest actors to ever have had a career in this strange showbusiness world. He's a cross between Cary Grant and Charlie Chaplin."
Shirley MacLaine [co-star in 'The Apartment' and 'Irma La Douce']: "I loved working with Jack Lemmon on the the films we did. If I was ever feeling down one day on the set, he'd always make me feel better because he was always in a good mood. He loved working and I love the fact that I was able to work with this great man. He is very funny and a very handsome, talented man."
Natalie Wood [co-star in 'The Great Race']: "I was quite impressed by Jack when I first met him, to a point where I was exceedlingly impressed not only by him but also the performance he did in The Great Race. He was wonderful in that film. I have never seen anyone go in so many different directions, identifying every character he plays so perfectly and finely."
Doris Day [co-star in 'It Happened to Jane']: "Jack Lemmon. What a great name! As well as person! An incredible actor. Jack and I have a certain bond and we shared that special bond in a film in 1959. We just bounce off each other and we make each other laugh. I just love Jack. He is one of my dearest friends."
Betty Garrett [co-star in My Sister Eileen']: "I think I fell in love with Jack Lemmon. I know I had a big crush on him. He was so handsome and so beautiful. And yet he's one of the easiest persons to work with. Because he likes to rehearse, which I like to do. And at the same time, it doesn't matter if you don't want to rehearse. Jack will still sit in his dressing room alone and go over and over his lines. He was a very unique actor with a huge fanbase."
Интересные факты
«Пришло время волшебства» - A phrase used to say to himself, Jack Lemmon before each filming began.
In 1959, the actor released a music album «Twist of Lemmon».In one of the earliest performances played John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln.
Jack loved golf - even though that was never able to learn to play well in it.Jack's father, John Uhler Lemmon II, played a small role in the film "landlady".
Jack also tried his hand as a producer in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" with Paul Newman - He founded the company Jalem Productions shot this picture as well as several paintings by Lemmon.
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