Biography
At the beginning of the last winter month of 2020, the entire cinematic world recalled the legendary Jack Lemmon: on February 8, he could have been 95 years old. The celebrity has a special relationship with the prestigious film "Oscar". First, the artist for the first time in history received both cherished figurines for the main and secondary role. Secondly, he was planned such a high award for a convincing reincarnation in Ensina Frank Törlou Plumber almost immediately after the debut in the Big Cinema.Childhood and youth
Some outstanding personality might boast their unusual birthday. The star of Ballet Rudolf Nureyev was born in 1938 in the train, following Vladivostok, and John Juler Lemmon III (this is the full name of the celebrity) - in 1925, right in the elevator of Newton-Wellesley Hospital in the suburbs of Middlesks.
The overall child did not affect the tense relationship of Mildred Burgess and the father of John Yulera Lemmont II. The marriage was not easy, and as a result, the spouses broke up when the Son reached the majority. At the same time, the pair did not form a divorce officially. As a child, the boy did not have a strong health - managed to move three operations on the ears and flew to the hospital for a couple of years.
Tracting for art woke up in it at a fairly early age. At 8 years old, the boy said he wanted to become an actor, causing the disapproval of the parent (he, however, did not oppose the desire of the heir). And at the age of 14, he independently mastered the musical instrument - piano.
He received education first in the schools of John Ward Elementary School and Rivers School, then at the Academy of Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard College. In the last educational institution, the student actively participated in both cultural and public life. And then did not recognize any restrictions, bypassing the ban on speeches in theaters and taking the alias to the pseudonym Timothy Orange.
In recent months, the Second World War, the young man fell on the Navy, where he was listed by the officer of communication at the aircraft carrier "Lake Shamplane" and Ensin. Returning from the front and completing training, the young man went to HB Studio, where Hagen's berths herself did not listen. To have at least some earnings, he served as a waiter leading the solemn ceremonies and the accompanist in the Old Knick Bar. Subsequently, a man did not leave the Broadway and radio with television.
Personal life
The first chief of the artist was his colleague and a long-time familiar Cynthia Stone. Lovers got married on May 7, 1950 and starred in the comedy TV series Heaven for Betsy. 4 years after the wedding celebration, on June 22, they took congratulations on the birth of the son of Christopher Boyd, subsequently the adult footsteps. Chris became an actor and writer and created a play dedicated to his father and relationship with him.Unfortunately, the emergence of the child did not save the marriage, and in 1956, the spouses were divorced. A woman was twice who tried to arrange a personal life twice, and Jack on August 17, 1962 he took Fellica Farr in his wife, who gave him the daughter of Courtney Noel. The heir also chose the creative path in the future.
The man knew how to love not only, but also to be friends. The starting cooperation with Walter Mattau in the play "Strange couple" in 1964 turned into a close partnership, and the performers turned into the most recognizable comic duet. It seems that one without another could no longer, and a year after Mattau died, death took and Lemmona.
Films
In 1955, flashed in "This should happen to you," Lemmon received a role in Mr. Roberts, which Henry Foundation was embodied on the screen. The virtuoso transformation in Ensina Frank Pullover is so impressed by the harsh jury of the Oscar, which it did not bother and handed the Jack cherished statuette.
At the start of the 60s, he appeared immediately in two cult film guards who won the recognition of the public and criticism and many deserved awards, "in Jazz only girls" and "Apartment". Marilyn Monroe and Tony Kurtis were found in the first partners of the artist on the shooting area, in the second - Shirley McHlein.
Curtis was approved in "Some love" without unnecessary disputes, but for Daphne, a real slaughter unfolded between the creators of the film. The Mirisch brothers, the founders of the Mirisch Brothers studio, insisted for Frank Sinatra candidacy, and the options of Eddie Cantor and Jack Benni were considered.
As a result, the director Billy Wilder opted his choice on Lemmon - he immediately responded to the offer, not embracing the upcoming reincarnation into a woman. And the sex symbol of the twentieth century managed to bypass strong rivals in the face of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Mitzi Gainor.
Soon, the American filmography was enriched with "33 misfortunes" and "Wine and Roses Days", as well as projects where he performed in a duet with a friend Walter Mattau. The audience was in a wild delight of their "excitement of good luck", "old grills", etc.
In the 70s in the creative biography of the Hollywood star, there was a comedy of Avanti! "Golden Globe, who gave the artist" Golden Globe ", and the drama" Save the Tiger ", which brought the second Oscar. And then the actor ahead and Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino, and Jack Nicholson with Robert Redford.
Until the end of the life, the artist did not stop being removed. A few months before the death, he played Hardy Grevza in old age in the Legend of Bagher Vanas.
Death
The divine clown, as Lemmon called, in the last years of his life was tormented by an incurable disease. Despite the fact that the man was happily fought with her, as a result, it was she who was the cause of his death on June 27, 2001 at the age of 76.The family fulfilled the last will of the artist. According to his will, his grave is located next to the burial of a close friend and colleagues Walter Mattau at the Westwood Cemetery in the West of Los Angeles. Here also found the last refugee and Marilyn Monroe, and Ray Bradbury, and Billy Wilder, and Kirk Douglas, and George Scott.
Filmography
- 1954 - "This should happen to you"
- 1955 - "Mr. Roberts"
- 1959 - "In Jazz only girls"
- 1960 - "Apartment"
- 1962 - "33 misfortunes"
- 1966 - "Azart Good luck"
- 1968 - "Strange couple"
- 1972 - "Avanti!"
- 1973 - "Save the Tiger"
- 1979 - "Chinese Syndrome"
- 1986 - "Such is life!"
- 1993 - "Old Grounds"
- 1995 - "The old grills loosened"
- 1998 - "Strange couple - 2"
- 2000 - "Legend of Bagher Vanas"