Jack Lemmon

Screen icon Jack Lemmon was a genius, and thankfully his actor/musician son Chris Lemmon is keeping his unique voice alive. Chris did his one-man show A Twist of Lemmon in a benefit performance at the Players Club last night, and I was there. Among his ...  

Q. Was Frank Sinatra considered for the Tony Curtis role in Some Like It Hot? A. Yes and no, at least he expressed interest in the Jerry/Daphne role (Jack Lemmon). Here is the story of the casting twists and turns that led to Monroe, Curtis and Lemmon as the stars.  

The Mighty Jack Lemmon is C.C. Baxter, a worker-drone in the Kafkaesque office located on the 17th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper that’s home base for the insurance company Baxter works for and is desperate to get ahead in. With thousands of ...  

WINNER OF FIVE Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay, Billy Wilder’s ground-breaking follow-up to “Some Like It Hot” is what a romantic comedy ought to be. With stars like Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray, as ...  

Clooney is rarely better than as a smart alec learning not to be an idiot, and this performance is on a par with his turn in Up In The Air, which also earned him an Oscar nomination.  

The first high profile Hollywood mission to Israel took place in 1984, according to my research, and was hosted by renowned William Morris agent Stan Kamen and a young Sherry Lansing, then an up and coming executive at 20th Century Fox. The big ...  

Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon made an idelible mark in theatre when his Tony award winning play, "The Odd Couple" made its way to the stage in 1965 starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney. That is up until Jack Klugman and Jack Lemmon immortalized ...  

Cameron Crowe joins us now from Los Angeles ... (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, 'THE APARTMENT") JACK LEMMON: (as C.C. Baxter) Merry Christmas. SHIRLEY MACLAINE: (as Fran) Thank you. Like you were avoiding me. LEMMON: What gave you that idea?  

Australia's new opening partnership get off to a perfect startThe Guardian (blog)He did not go so far as to cast himself in the Walter Matthau role from the film of the great Neil Simon play, nor did he accuse Cowan, as Oscar Madison disparaged Jack Lemmon's Felix Ungar, of being "the only man in the world with clenched hair", ...and more »  

Students bringing Marilyn Monroe classic to Madison stage (video)Oneida Dispatch12-13, at 7 pm The musical is based on the 1958 classic comedy film “Some Like It Hot” starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The story follows two unemployed musicians, bass player Jerry and saxophonist Joe, who witness the St. ...  

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)The 100 Best Comedies Since 1960San Francisco Chronicle (blog)(SFC) Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Edie Adams in "The Apartment": The only thing that almost kept it off this list -- and may yet get it thrown off -- is that it might not really be a comedy. (MGM) American Pie: The first one, and only the first ...  

New Year's Eve revelers have BN optionsBloomington Pantagraphw At 7 pm, the Normal Theater screens “The Apartment,” with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine falling in love over a long, and hilarious, holiday week. w Conklin's Barn II is closing out its seasonal song-and-laugh-fest, “It's the Most Wonderful Time of ...and more »  

Actor gives divine performance in 'La Cage'STLtoday.comFrom Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in "Some Like It Hot" to Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie," from Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in "Bosom Buddies" to the unfortunate duo starring in the new TV show "Work It" (which my colleague Gail Pennington summarizes as ...and more »  

Fay Vincent: The greatest gift of friendship: learning how to die — from a ...TCPalmIn "Tuesdays with Morrie," Mitch Albom (played by Hank Azaria, left, in a still from the film) wrote about the incredible life lessons learned from his terminally ill mentor, Morrie Schwartz (played by Jack Lemmon). Fay Vincent shared the life lessons ...  

Actor gives a divine performance in 'La Cage Aux Folles'STLtoday.comFrom Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in "Some Like It Hot" to Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie," from Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in "Bosom Buddies" to the unfortunate duo starring in the new TV show "Work It" (which my colleague Gail Pennington summarizes as ...and more »