33 Facts About Lee Remick

Lee Ann Remick was an American actress and singer.

Lee Remick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Wait Until Dark in addition to earning seven Emmy Award nominations.

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.

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.

Lee Remick attended the Swoboda School of Dance and The Hewitt School.

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

Lee Remick began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Television Theatre and Playhouse 90.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 one week.

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.

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

Lee Remick co-starred with Gregory Peck in the 1976 horror film The Omen.

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

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

Lee Remick played Margaret Sullavan in Haywire and earned an Emmy nomination.

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

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

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

Lee Remick was in Rearview Mirror, Toughlove, Of Pure Blood, and Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder, earning another Emmy nomination.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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