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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 8, 2018 18:43:27 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 8, 2018 18:59:31 GMT
My favorite bit of JL trivia: his last name was actually pronounced (at least until he went into show biz) Le- MON. When he signed with Columbia, Harry Cohn wanted to change his name to... John Lennon. Lemmon objected, telling Cohn that people would think he was a Russian revolutionary. Cohn immediately snapped back, "I checked that Mr. Smart Guy, that's Le- NEEN!" I don't know what Lemmon's favorite of his performances was. However I do know which one was the favorite of his son Chris Lemmon: The Great Race. CL cited the versatility required by the role -- it's a favorite of mine as well.   |
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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 8, 2018 19:19:22 GMT
My favorite bit of JL trivia: his last name was actually pronounced (at least until he went into show biz) Le- MON. When he signed with Columbia, Harry Cohn wanted to change his name to... John Lennon. Lemmon objected, telling Cohn that people would think he was a Russian revolutionary. Cohn immediately snapped back, "I checked that Mr. Smart Guy, that's Le- NEEN!" I don't know what Lemmon's favorite of his performances was. However I do know which one was the favorite of his son Chris Lemmon: The Great Race. CL cited the versatility required by the role -- it's a favorite of mine as well. I've never seen The Great Race but it looks like great fun. |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 8, 2018 19:40:45 GMT
Favorite performances? Save the Tiger and Glengarry Glen Ross.   |
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Post by teleadm on Feb 8, 2018 19:56:40 GMT
  How to Murder Your Wife 1965  Mister Roberts 1955  1959 |
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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 9, 2018 0:01:02 GMT
How to Murder Your Wife 1965 Mister Roberts 1955 1959 Fonda, Cagney, Powell and Lemmon all in the same movie, I must see Mister Roberts one day soon! Jack sings? I never knew he had an album! |
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Post by politicidal on Feb 9, 2018 0:31:38 GMT
His 90s filmography Grumpy Old Men & Grumpier Old Men   My Fellow Americans  |
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Post by jervistetch on Feb 9, 2018 3:29:49 GMT
Thank you for this, Lebowskidoo. Jack Lemmon is one of my favorite actors. He and Gene Hackman are the best at playing the likable "Everyman" roles that so many people can connect with. Jack could play funny as well as he could play tragic and he has enriched my love of the cinema more than almost any other actor. Here he is at two ends of the spectrum: SOME LIKE IT HOT  DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (One of the most heartbreaking film endings I can think of.)  I Love Him. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 9, 2018 9:57:35 GMT
His 90s filmography Grumpy Old Men & Grumpier Old Men My Fellow Americans The best bit in My Fellow Americans: When Jack Lemmon's character sings his own made up lyrics to " Hail To The Chief."  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 9, 2018 9:58:54 GMT
Thank you for this, Lebowskidoo. Jack Lemmon is one of my favorite actors. He and Gene Hackman are the best at playing the likable "Everyman" roles that so many people can connect with. Jack could play funny as well as he could play tragic and he has enriched my love of the cinema more than almost any other actor. Here he is at two ends of the spectrum: SOME LIKE IT HOT DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (One of the most heartbreaking film endings I can think of.) I Love Him. He was so very "Everyman" which made us all love and identify with him. |
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Post by outrider127 on Feb 9, 2018 12:41:50 GMT
I was also stunned when he died at 76, although bladder cancer is more common in smokers, which Jack Lemmon used to do
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Post by outrider127 on Feb 9, 2018 12:48:51 GMT
He had such a great career, from 1954 to 2000---We loved him in the Grumpy Old Men movies and even liked Odd Couple II--So many movies over 46 years--Under The Yum Yum Tree(1963) was one of the few roles he disavowed, saying his character was a creep--Some Like It Hot, Bell Book and Candle,The Great Race, his two anti-New York movies, The Out Of Towners and The Prisoner Of Second Ave were all great--How To Murder Your Wife, The Apartment, Days Of Wine and Roses, Irma La Douce also good
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Post by Aunt Peg on Feb 9, 2018 13:18:47 GMT
So many great performances over the years. Amongst my favourites were Missing, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Mass Appeal.
He also worked with such a wide variety of leading ladies that very few actors could ever match: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, Ann Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Lee Remick, Shirley MacLaine, Catherine Deneuve, Judy Holiday, Ann-Margaret, Piper Laurie, Sophia Loren, Julie Andrews, Genevieve Bujold, Susan Sarandon, Juliet Mills, Sandy Dennis, Virna Lisi, Carol Lynley, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh....
A real legend.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 9, 2018 14:15:39 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Feb 9, 2018 16:44:22 GMT
1959 Fonda, Cagney, Powell and Lemmon all in the same movie, I must see Mister Roberts one day soon! Jack sings? I never knew he had an album! You ought to try to see Mister Roberts one day, those three movie legends and a "movie legend in waiting", it was William Powell's farewell movie and one could say William Powell turned over the baton to Jack Lemmon, the old gives away to the young. As for an album with Jack Lemmon, one could be astonished what actors that actually have recorded albums, here is another from Lemmon from 1961, two years after the movie:  ...and just hope you're stereo was ready for the sound of Stereorama  |
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Post by teleadm on Feb 9, 2018 17:00:56 GMT
Jack Lemmon playing piano and singing a little on The Dinah Shore Show, sadly I don't know what year it's from, and the picture quility isn't the best, but at least it's in colour:
It's "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and not "Shall We Dance" as this clip says.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 10, 2018 3:56:04 GMT
Al Pacino once said he never worked with a greater actor to learn from than Jack Lemmon, and that's a fact ...
"You have to understand, Tony [Curtis] is charged, he's fully charged."
- Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon with Tony Curtis' mother Mrs. Curtis
Steve Martin on Jack Lemmon
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 10, 2018 4:15:17 GMT
Al Pacino once said he never worked with a greater actor to learn from than Jack Lemmon, and that's a fact ...
There's a scene in Glengarry Glen Ross where Shelley the Machine Levene (Lemmon) is exuberantly recounting a recent sales triumph to Rick Roma (Pacino). Roma sits back and enjoys the story and Pacino enjoys the performance. |
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Post by petrolino on Feb 11, 2018 3:56:40 GMT
Jack Lemmon's talented son Chris Lemmon has some fine films to his credit, among them a personal favourite, James Kenelm Clarke's engaging crime spoof 'Going Undercover' (1985) which seriously deserves an official dvd release restoration. If you look online, people are speaking with high praise about Lemmon Jr. and say his multi-talented co-star Lea Thompson was a delight to be around. The film has an all-star line-up yet inexplicably fell through the proverbial cracks.
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Post by Lebowskidoo ππ·π on Feb 11, 2018 19:23:54 GMT
Jack Lemmon's talented son Chris Lemmon has some fine films to his credit, among them a personal favourite, James Kenelm Clarke's engaging crime spoof 'Going Undercover' (1985) which seriously deserves an official dvd release restoration. If you look online, people are speaking with high praise about Lemmon Jr. and say his multi-talented co-star Lea Thompson was a delight to be around. The film has an all-star line-up yet inexplicably fell through the proverbial cracks. I always liked Chris but haven't seen him in anything in ages. He looks so much like his dad!   |
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