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Lee Ann Remick (; December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Wait Until Dark (1966) in addition to earning seven nominations.

Remick made her film debut in A Face in the Crowd (1957). Some of her other notable film roles include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Wild River (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), The Detective (1968), (1976), and The Europeans (1979).

She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the TV film The Blue Knight (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries (1974). For the latter role, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. In April 1991, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Early life
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia) (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store. Playing Jennie The Churchill Centre She had one older brother, Bruce. One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.

Remick attended the Swoboda School of Dance and The .


Career

Broadway and television
Remick made her Broadway theatre debut, age 18, in the 1953 production Be Your Age. She 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.Anderson, Robert (22 August 1959). "TV Saw Her First!" Chicago Daily Tribune: B5.


Early films
Remick made her film debut in '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 ).

After appearing as Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner () in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), she appeared in These Thousand Hills (1959) as a dance hall girl, both for 20th Century Fox.


Film stardom
Remick came to prominence portraying a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in 's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

She made a second film with Kazan, Wild River (1960), which co-starred and Jo Van Fleet. That year she played Miranda in a television version of The Tempest with Richard Burton. Remick was top-billed in Sanctuary (1961) alongside . She appeared in The Farmer's Daughter (1962) on television. She starred opposite in the suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror (1962). The same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of in Days of Wine and Roses (1962), also directed by Edwards. , also nominated that year for What Ever 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 in The Miracle Worker.

When was fired during the filming of the comedy Something's Got to Give, the studio announced that Remick would be her replacement. Co-star refused to continue, however, saying that while he admired Remick, he had signed on to the picture strictly to work with Monroe. Remick did The Running Man (1963) with and The Wheeler Dealers (1963), with .


Return to Broadway and 1965 films
Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle, with music and lyrics by and a book and direction by , which ran for only one week. Remick's performance is captured on the original cast recording. This began a friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the 1985 concert version of his musical .Smith, Cecil (15 October 1963). "Lee Is Singing and She's Glad". Los Angeles Times: D8.

Remick returned to films with Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), with from a script by , and The Hallelujah Trail (1965) with .

In 1966, she starred in the Broadway play Wait Until Dark under the direction of and co-starring . It was a big success, and it ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic). It was adapted into a successful film the following year starring .


More films and 1970s
She performed in Damn Yankees! (1967) for TV and starred in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) with and , The Detective (1968) with , and (1969) with .

Remick went to the UK to make Loot (1970) and A Severed Head (1971). Back in the U.S., she was in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).

She appeared in Hennessy (1975), with . She co-starred with in the 1976 horror film . The film was a commercial success.

Remick followed it up with leading actress roles in Telefon (1977), with ; The Medusa Touch (1978) with ; the television miniseries Wheels (1979) with ; (1979) portraying ; and The Europeans (1979) for director .Smith, Cecil (30 April 1979). "A Rush of Lee Remick on Television" Los Angeles Times: E1.

Remick starred in many TV movies beginning with The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) with . 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 ; A Delicate Balance (1973) with Katharine Hepburn; QB VII (1974); Touch Me Not, a.k.a. The Hunted (1974); (1975), playing the title role, which earned her an Emmy nomination; Hustling (1975) with ; A Girl Named Sooner (1975); Breaking Up (1978); and Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) with .


1980s
Remick played Margaret Sullavan in Haywire (1980) and earned an Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Special). She had the lead in The Women's Room (1980) and supporting roles in The Competition (1980) and Tribute (1980), the latter with Lemmon.

Remick starred in The Letter (1982), (1983) and a TV adaptation of I Do! I Do! (1984). She had a role in the miniseries Mistral's Daughter (1984), adapted from the novel by . The reviewer of The New York Times praised Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'Mistral's Daughter' Starts Tonight". The New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2013.

Remick was in Rearview Mirror (1984), (1985), Of Pure Blood (1986), and (1987), earning another Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special). She went to Australia to make Emma's War (1987).

Remick's later performances include The Vision (1987) with , Jesse (1988), Bridge to Silence (1989) and playing in Around the World in 80 Days (1989). Her last performance was the lead in the TV movie (1989).


Personal life
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 27, 1959) and Matthew Remick Colleran (b. June 7, 1961). Remick and Colleran divorced in 1968.

Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18, 1970. He was an assistant director on films such as Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968) before they married, and afterward 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. 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".

In the spring of 1989, Remick was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Treatments at first seemed to be successful. However, this proved not to be true, and she died on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55.


Recognition and legacy
Remick was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1990.

She has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated on April 29, 1991.

Remick was the subject of "Lee Remick", the 1978 debut single by the Australian indie rock band . Songwriter Robert Forster mistakenly thought Remick was from Ireland, and he makes references to this idea in the song. In reality, Remick was American-born and raised (as were her parents); after 1970, she divided her time between England (where she had family ancestry) and the U.S.

The English indie rock band Hefner recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, unrelated to the Go-Betweens' single.


Filmography

Film
Film debut
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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
Silver Shell for Best Actress
Uncredited
Archival footage


Television
Episode: "The Death and Life of Larry Benson"
Episode: "The Landlady's Daughter"
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
Episode: "Summer and Smoke"
TV movie
TV movie
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
2 episodes
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
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
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
TV 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
TV movie
3 episodes
TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
TV movie
TV miniseries
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
Episode: "The Snow Queen"
Episode: "Eleanor: In Her Own Words"
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Informational Programming
TV movie
TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
TV movie
TV movie
TV movie
3 episodes
TV movie
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