34 Facts About Lee Remick

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Lee Ann Remick was an American actress and singer.

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Lee Remick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses.

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Lee Remick won Golden Globe Awards for the TV film The Blue Knight, and for playing the title role in the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill.

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Lee Remick worked in theatre and in 1966, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for her Broadway theatre role in Wait Until Dark.

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Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret, an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Lee Remick, who owned a department store.

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Lee Remick attended the Swoboda School of Dance, The Hewitt School, and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors Studio.

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Lee Remick made her Broadway theatre debut, age 18, in the 1953 production Be Your Age.

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Lee Remick 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.

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Lee Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd.

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Lee Remick made a second film with Kazan, Wild River, which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet.

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Lee Remick appeared in The Farmer's Daughter on television.

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Lee Remick starred opposite Glenn Ford in the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror.

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When Marilyn Monroe was fired during the filming of the comedy Something's Got to Give, the studio announced that Lee Remick would be her replacement.

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Co-star Dean Martin refused to continue saying that while he admired Lee Remick, he had signed onto the picture strictly to be able to work with Monroe.

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Lee Remick did a thriller, The Running Man, with Laurence Harvey and a comedy, The Wheeler Dealers, with James Garner.

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Lee Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book and direction by Arthur Laurents, which ran for only a week.

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Lee Remick returned to films with Baby the Rain Must Fall, with Steve McQueen from a script by Horton Foote, and The Hallelujah Trail with Burt Lancaster.

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Lee Remick visited the UK to make Loot and A Severed Head.

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Lee Remick appeared in Hennessy, reuniting her with Rod Steiger.

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Lee Remick 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.

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Lee Remick followed it up with leading actress roles in Telefon, with Charles Bronson; The Medusa Touch with Richard Burton; the television mini-series Wheels with Rock Hudson; Ike: The War Years portraying Kay Summersby; and The Europeans for director James Ivory.

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Lee Remick starred in many TV movies beginning with The Man Who Came to Dinner with Orson Welles.

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Lee Remick had the lead in The Women's Room, and supported in The Competition and Tribute, the latter with Lemmon.

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Lee Remick had a role in the miniseries Mistral's Daughter, adapted from the novel by Judith Krantz.

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The reviewer of The New York Times praised Lee Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".

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Lee Remick was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1990.

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Lee Remick has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Lee Remick married producer Bill Colleran, whose credits include Your Hit Parade, The Dean Martin Show and The Judy Garland Show, on August 3,1957.

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Lee Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18,1970.

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Lee Remick was an assistant director on such films as Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Lion in Winter before they married, and afterwards worked on Sleuth, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Human Factor.

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Lee Remick moved with Gowans to England and remained married to him until her death.

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Lee Remick starred in four telefilms he produced, The Women's Room, The Letter, Rearview Mirror and Of Pure Blood.

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For some reason, songwriter Robert Forster thought Lee Remick was from Ireland, and references this in the song.

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In reality, Lee Remick was American-born and raised ; after 1970, she divided her time between England and the US.