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Synopsis: Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out ofRead More
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Jack Lemmon was the "everyman" actor who excelled in both comedic and dramatic roles, and won Academy Awards in both areas. His career included everything from belly-laugh comedy to gut-wrenching tragedy, from Shakespeare to "The Simpsons." In nearly 100 films, Lemmon typically played slightly flawed but deeply likeable characters struggling, not to exceed, but just to survive.
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A two-time Oscar winner, Jack Lemmon often played struggling underdogs like the neurotic Felix Ungar in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple. Lemmon attended Harvard and turned to acting after serving in the Navy. He appeared in dozens of high-profile films over 50 years, including the Billy Wilder comedies Some Like It Hot (1959, with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis), The Apartment (1960, with Shirley MacLaine) and Irma La Douce (1963... with MacLaine). He has also proved himself in dramas, including The Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Missing (1982), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, with Alec Baldwin). Lemmon won a best supporting actor Oscar as the scheming Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts (1955, his best-known role until Felix Unger), and won the best actor award for the 1973 drama Save the Tiger. In The Odd Couple he teamed up with Walter Matthau, his collaborator on many other projects, including The Fortune Cookie (1966), Grumpy Old Men (1993) and Out to Sea (1997).
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Best-known as an Academy Award-winning actor, Jack Lemmon ... issued several recordings over the years. Born John Uhler Lemmon III on February 8, 1925, in Newton, MA, it wasn't until he attended Harvard University that Lemmon began taking acting seriously and joined the school's drama club. After serving in the Navy, Lemmon worked in a beer hall playing piano before eventually landing spots on Broadway, radio, TV, and by the mid-'50s, movies (alternating between comedies and dramas). It didn't take long for the public to recognize Lemmon's acting talents; he won an Academy Award in 1955 for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the movie Mister Roberts and earned further nominations as Best Leading Actor in the late '50s/early '60s (1959's Some Like It Hot, 1960's The Apartment, 1962's Days of Wine and Roses). It was also around this time that Lemmon began issuing albums, including such titles as Twist of Lemmon and Sings and Plays Music From Some Like It Hot in the late '50s, as well as Piano Selections From Irma La Douce and E.B. White's Here Is New York in the early '60s.
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Jack Lemmon was born on the 8th of February, 1925 in a Boston, Massachusetts hospital. The fresh-faced actor learned to play the piano by ear when growing up in his teens. He could ... play many harmonica themes. During the 1940s and 50s, he starred in over 500 live television performances. Jack was the young star of the early sitcom, Room Service. In 1953, Jack was finally noticed by Hollywood scouts when Jack starred with Judy Holliday in "It Should Happen to You" (1954).
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