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==Early life==
==Early life==
Lee Remick was born in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia<ref name=dr/><ref name=sbcs/>) (''[[Maiden and married names|née]]'' Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a [[department store]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110612234518/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/?pageid=765 Playing Jennie - The Churchill Centre<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |access-date=January 26, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103015007/http://www.rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |archivedate=November 3, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
Lee Remick was born in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia<ref name=dr/><ref name=sbcs/>) (''[[Maiden and married names|née]]'' Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a [[department store]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110612234518/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/?pageid=765 Playing Jennie - The Churchill Centre<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |access-date=January 26, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103015007/http://www.rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |archivedate=November 3, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A2141E9D902E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 3, 1991 |title=LEE REMICK: FROM A FACE TO A FIRM PLACE IN THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD}}</ref> One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-06/entertainment/ca-1909_1_lee-remick| work=Los Angeles Times| first=Charles| last=Champlin| title=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.'| date=March 6, 1990}}</ref> Remick attended the Swaboda School of Dance, the [[Hewitt School]],<ref name=sbcs/> and studied acting at [[Barnard College]] and the [[Actors Studio]], making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with ''Be Your Age''.<ref name=pv>{{cite web| title=Lee Remick| url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/89855/Lee-Remick| website=Playbill Vault| access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref>
|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A2141E9D902E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 3, 1991 |title=LEE REMICK: FROM A FACE TO A FIRM PLACE IN THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD}}</ref> One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-06/entertainment/ca-1909_1_lee-remick| work=Los Angeles Times| first=Charles| last=Champlin| title=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.'| date=March 6, 1990}}</ref>


Remick attended the Swaboda School of Dance, the [[Hewitt School]],<ref name=sbcs/> and studied acting at [[Barnard College]] and the [[Actors Studio]].
==Career==
==Career==
===Broadway and Television===
Remick made her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with ''Be Your Age''.<ref name=pv>{{cite web| title=Lee Remick| url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/89855/Lee-Remick| website=Playbill Vault| access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref> 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]]''.<ref>TV SAW HER FIRST!
Anderson, Robert. Chicago Daily Tribune 22 Aug 1959: b5. </ref>
===Early Films===
Remick made her film debut in [[Elia Kazan]]'s ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|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]]).
Remick made her film debut in [[Elia Kazan]]'s ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|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 (film)|Wild River]]'', which co-starred [[Montgomery Clift]] and [[Jo Van Fleet]].
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 (film)|Wild River]]'', which co-starred [[Montgomery Clift]] and [[Jo Van Fleet]]. That year she played Miranda in a TV version of ''[[The Tempest (1960 film)|The Tempest]]'' with Richard Burton.

Remick was top billed in ''[[Sanctuary (1961 film)|Sanctuary]]'' (1961) alongside [[Yves Montand]]. She did ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1962 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]'' (1962) on television.
[[File:Remick - Cukor - 1962.jpg|thumb|left|Rehearsing with director [[George Cukor]] in 1962]]
[[File:Remick - Cukor - 1962.jpg|thumb|left|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 Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for her performance as the [[Alcoholism|alcoholic]] wife of [[Jack Lemmon]] in ''[[Days of Wine and Roses (film)|Days of Wine and Roses]]''. [[Bette Davis]], also nominated that year for ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)|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]]''.
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 Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for her performance as the [[Alcoholism|alcoholic]] wife of [[Jack Lemmon]] in ''[[Days of Wine and Roses (film)|Days of Wine and Roses]]'' (1962), also directed by Edwards. [[Bette Davis]], also nominated that year for ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)|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.
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 film)|The Running Man]]'' (1963) and a comedy with James Garner, ''[[The Wheeler Dealers]]'' (1963).
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Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'',<ref name=pv/> 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]]'',<ref name=pv/> which was another big success; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).<ref>{{cite web| title=Search Results: Lee Remick| url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| website=Tony Awards| access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref> It was adapted into a successful film the following year starring [[Audrey Hepburn]].
===Return to Broadway===
⚫
Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'',<ref name=pv/> 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]]''. <ref>Lee Is Singing and She's Glad
Smith, Cecil. Los Angeles Times 15 Oct 1963: D8. </ref>

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]].<ref name=pv/> It was a big success and ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).<ref>{{cite web| title=Search Results: Lee Remick| url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| website=Tony Awards| access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref> It was adapted into a [[Wait Until Dark (film)successful film the following year]] starring [[Audrey Hepburn]].
===More Films===
She performed in ''[[Damn Yankees! (1967 film)|Damn Yankees!]]'' (1967) for TV and starred in ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968) with [[Rod Steiger]] and [[George Segal]], ''[[The Detective (1968 film)|The Detective]]'' (1968) with [[Frank Sinatra]], and ''[[Hard Contract]]'' (1969) with [[James Coburn]].

Remick went to England to make ''[[Loot (1970 film)|Loot]]'' (1970) and ''[[A Severed Head (film)|A Severed Head]]'' (1971). Back in the US she was in [[Paul Newman]]'s ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]'' (1971).
===TV Movies===
Remick started to star in many TV movies started with ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972 film)|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 (film)|The Blue Knight]]'' (1973) with [[William Holden]]; ''[[A Delicate Balance (film)|A Delicate Balance]]'' (1973) with [[Katherine Hepburn]]; ''[[QB VII (miniseries)|QB VII]]'' (1974); ''[[Touch Me Not (1974 film)|Touch Me Not]]'' (1974); ''[[Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill]]'' (1975), playing the title role, which earned her an Emmy nomination; ''[[Hustling (film)|Hustling]]'' (1975) with [[Jill Clayburgh]]; ''[[A Girl Named Sooner]]'' (1975); and ''[[Hennessy (film)|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 Thorn|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 (film)|Telefon]]'' (1977), with [[Charles Bronson]]; ''[[Breaking Up (1978 film)|Breaking Up]]'' (1978) for US TV; ''[[The Medusa Touch (film)|The Medusa Touch]]'' (1978) with Richard Burton; ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (1979) with [[Rock Hudson]];''[[Torn Between Two Lovers]]'' (1979); ''[[Ike: The War Years]]'' (1979) with Duvall, playing [[Kay Summersby]]; and ''[[The Europeans (film)|The Europeans]]'' (1979) for James Ivory.
===1980s===
Remick played [[Margaret Sullavan]] in ''[[Haywire (1980 film)|Haywire]]'' (1980). She had the lead in ''[[The Women's Room (film)|The Women's Room]]'' (1980) and supported in ''[[The Competition (1980 film)|The Competition]]'' (1980) and ''[[Tribute (1980 film)|Tribute]]'' (1980), the latter with Lemmon.


Remick starred in ''[[The Letter (1982 film)|The Letter]]'' (1982), ''[[The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story]]'' (1983) and a TV adaptation of ''[[I Do! I Do!]]'' (1984).
Remick continued to star in major films throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, including ''[[Baby the Rain Must Fall]]'' (1965), ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]'' (1965), ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968), ''[[The Detective (1968 film)|The Detective]]'' (1968), ''[[Hard Contract]]'' (1969), ''[[Loot (1970 film)|Loot]]'' (1970), ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]'' (1971), ''[[A Delicate Balance (film)|A Delicate Balance]]'' (1973), and ''[[Hennessy (film)|Hennessy]]'' (1975).


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".<ref>O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'MISTRAL'S DAUGHTER' STARTS TONIGHT". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 22, 2013.</ref>
⚫
She co-starred with [[Gregory Peck]] in the 1976 horror film ''[[The Omen]]'', in which her character's adopted son, [[Damien Thorn|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 (film)|Telefon]]'' (1977), ''[[The Medusa Touch (film)|The Medusa Touch]]'' (1978) and ''[[The Europeans (film)|The Europeans]]'' (1979).


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 (film)|Emma's War]]'' (1987).
Remick later appeared in several made-for-TV movies and miniseries, for which she earned a total of seven [[Emmy Award]] nominations. Several were of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries, ''[[Ike (miniseries)|Ike]]'', in which she portrayed [[Kay Summersby]], alongside [[Robert Duvall]] (her co-star in ''[[Wait Until Dark]]'') as General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and ''[[Lady Randolph Churchill|Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill]]'', where she portrayed [[Winston Churchill]]'s mother, the American debutante Jennie Jerome who married [[Lord Randolph Churchill]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072520/plotsummary| title=Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill| website=IMDb| date=| access-date=2012-08-15}}</ref> She is also remembered for ''[[Mistral's Daughter]]''. The reviewer of ''The New York Times'' praised Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".<ref>O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'MISTRAL'S DAUGHTER' STARTS TONIGHT". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 22, 2013.</ref>


Remick's final performances include ''[[The Vision (film)|The Vision]]'' (1987) with [[Dirk Bogarde]], ''[[Jesse (film)|Jesse]]'' (1988), ''[[Bridge to Silence]]'' (1989) and playing [[Sarah Bernhardt]] in ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1989 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (1989). Her last performance was the lead in a TV movie ''[[Dark Holiday]]'' (1989).
==Recognition==
==Recognition==
Remick was awarded the [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#Crystal award|Crystal Award]] in 1990.<ref name=WIF>{{cite web|title=Past Recipients: Crystal Award |url=http://wif.org/past-recipients |work=Women In Film |access-date=May 10, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |archivedate=July 24, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
Remick was awarded the [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#Crystal award|Crystal Award]] in 1990.<ref name=WIF>{{cite web|title=Past Recipients: Crystal Award |url=http://wif.org/past-recipients |work=Women In Film |access-date=May 10, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |archivedate=July 24, 2011 |df= }}</ref>

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Lee Remick
Remick in 1974
Born
Lee Ann Remick

(1935-12-14)December 14, 1935
Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 2, 1991(1991-07-02) (aged 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationBarnard College
OccupationActress
Years active1953–1989
Spouse(s)
Bill Colleran
​
​
(m. 1957; div. 1968)​

Kip Gowans
​
​
(m. 1970; "her death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1991)​
Children2

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] One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

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.

Rehearsing with director George Cukor in 1962

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 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.

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,[7] 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. [9]

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.[7] It was a big success and ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).[10] It was adapted into a Wait Until Dark (film)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 started to star in many TV movies started 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 Katherine 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.

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".[11]

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.[12]

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.[13]

Personal life

Remick in 1960

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 1, 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".[14]

Through her daughter, Remick had two grandchildren, Remick Rose Minelian (b. 1993) and Georgia Lee Minelian (b. 1997).

Death

Remick died of kidney and liver cancer on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55, at her home in Los Angeles.[15]

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 also recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, but it is unrelated to the Go-Betweens' single.

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 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
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 [16]

See also

References

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  2. ^ 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. Open access icon
  3. ^ Playing Jennie - The Churchill Centre[dead link]
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  5. ^ "LEE REMICK: FROM A FACE TO A FIRM PLACE IN THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 3, 1991.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b c "Lee Remick". Playbill Vault. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  8. ^ TV SAW HER FIRST! Anderson, Robert. Chicago Daily Tribune 22 Aug 1959: b5.
  9. ^ Lee Is Singing and She's Glad Smith, Cecil. Los Angeles Times 15 Oct 1963: D8.
  10. ^ "Search Results: Lee Remick". Tony Awards. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  11. ^ O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'MISTRAL'S DAUGHTER' STARTS TONIGHT". The New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  12. ^ "Past Recipients: Crystal Award". Women In Film. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "Lee Remick". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ decades on CBS

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