Lee Remick Overview:

Legendary actress, Lee Remick, was born Lee Ann Remick on Dec 14, 1935 in Quincy, MA. Remick died at the age of 55 on Jul 2, 1991 in Los Angeles, CA and was cremated and her ashes given to family or friend.

MINI BIO:

Cool, blonde American actress with prettily thin features and pale blue eyes. Started her film career playing southern states sexpots, but progressed to more level-headed women, often very much in control of their own fortunes. Lived in Britain for some time in the seventies and was able to turn on an impeccable English accent. Nominated for an Academy Award in Days of Wine and Roses, she died from cancer of the liver at 55.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Remick was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1962Best ActressDays of Wine and Roses (1962)Kirsten ArnesenNominated
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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James Stewart, , and Ben Gazzara head the cast in “Anatomy of a Murder” Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is an American courtroom drama directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart, , Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Eve Arden, and Kathryn Grant. The suppo... Read full article


AND THE DAWN OF THE MINI-SERIES

By The Lady Eve on May 14, 2023 From Lady Eve's Reel Life

A fresh-faced 21-year-old made her motion picture debut with an eye-popping turn as a baton-twirling high school drum majorette in Elia Kazan’s 1957 classic, A Face in the Crowd. Remick’s seductive rendering of a precocious but empty-headed teenybopper who quickly becomes the... Read full article


Warner Archive Blu-ray: James Garner and in The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

By KC on Jun 20, 2017 From Classic Movies

Movie sexism in the sixties is often a difficult terrain to travel, no matter how much the filmmakers think they have empowered their female lead, there is inevitably a man behind any happy ending. I found much of this nature cringe about in The Wheeler Dealers, but James Garner and are r... Read full article


Experiment in Terror (1962) – with and Glenn Ford

By Greg Orypeck on Jun 16, 2016 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! The absolute ultimate in sensual shuddering suspense?see, hear and FEEL it for yourself! A woman who paints and repairs manikins for a living walks around her semi-dark work room, feeling uneasy as she prepares for bed.? She has already consulted an FBI agent about a man who has threaten... Read full article


Tropes of Women in Film: in Anatomy of a Murder

By Duke Mantee on Jul 25, 2012 From Spoilers

Because of the Production Code, films made in the 1930?s, 40?s, and 50?s were strictly censored. The same set of rules that forbade Maxim de Winter from being his wife?s killer also forbade the use of the word ?virgin? on screen. Language, especially sexually explicit language, was the most heavily ... Read full article


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Lee Remick Quotes:

Kate Palmer: Are you tender, Morris? You can have me if you say "yes."


Eula: Why, you sound free as a bird. Don't he sound free as a bird?


Eula Varner: If I'm not mistaken, that's my master's voice.


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Lee Remick Facts
Her son, Matt Colleran, was a founding member of Los Angeles-based rock band, Mary's Danish. He wrote (with Gretchen Seager) the band's biggest hit, "Don't Crash the Car Tonight".

Lee's second husband, British producer Kip Gowans, worked with Lee on a number of TV movies including The Women's Room (1980) (TV), and Rearview Mirror (1984) (TV).

Lee and her husband, Bill Colleran, were good friends of Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy and frequent visitors to the White House. Lee was also an avid spokesperson for the Democratic Party.

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