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Lee Remick


She did not want to be a star

Lee Remick might become a bright star in Hollywood, but preferred to follow the path, perhaps more difficult to become a real actress.

Lee Remick in Spain: In Spain shot a thing called "hard contract", with James Coburn was not to be released here. (Above, with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background). De

she wanted to make the replacement of Marilyn Monroe (another one), but his personality was imposed and was not dazzled by the star.

may be focused on some glamorous roles but where he could demonstrate his remarkable skills for the drama.

born in 1935 in the city of Quinzy (Massachusetts) received dance lessons from a very young and in his teens he became interested in acting.



After several plays in which he managed to call the attention of local critics, he moved to Los Angeles where he was admitted to the Actor's Studio is under the supervision of Lee Strasberg.


His debut A Face in the Crowd (1957) directed by Elia Kazan, was a bombshell.

This film was a majorette manipulative that disrupts the lives of people around them moved by unspeakable ambitions.


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had to prepare the paper spent hours and hours in the garden of her parents' house to practice with the staff and, of course, the film highlighted paraded before all the real majjorettes they did the chorus.



His next film was The Long, Hot Summer (1958) by Martin Ritt, the co-starred with Paul Newman and Woodward Joaanne. In the film Newman and Woodward first met, initiating a relationship that lasted a lifetime.


In The Long, Hot Summer was a role diametrically opposite to his debut as it was a respectable southern housewife who nonetheless displays a feline eroticism and cunning to create tensions erotic male in their environment.

This role opened the doors to the seductive character in her next job, Anatomy of a Murder , (1959) the great Otto Preminger film.


In Anatomy of a Murder sensual and provocative is the wife of a soldier who says he was raped by a bartender. It is one of the best movies "trial" ever made and has one of the most portentous of James Sewart.


filmed the same year Thousand Hills, of Henry Hattaway, with Don Murray and Richard Egan. It was a twilight western Shakespearean which is now considered a cult film.


Lee Remick was rather short and can not exactly say it was pretty, but she had a beautiful piercing blue eyes that breathed fresh or aggressive eroticism, as appropriate to the character.

In his next work, River Wild (1961), Elia Kazan, is a farmer who has to fight against the elements and the local authorities for the conservation of their lands, threats construction of a dam. Your partner delivery was none other than Montgomery Cliff.

then wheel with Tony Richardson Requiem for a woman (1961), a film that went unnoticed based on William Faulkner. It is a rich heiress who, against all odds, defends his black servant, accused of killing his own son.

In his next work, in Terror (1962) is a bank employee who is subjected to relentless harassment by a mysterious character who makes blackmail at the expense of her younger sister with the intention that it be accomplice in the robbery at the institution where he works.

The film is a thriller sensational shot by Blake Edwards unexpected, hitherto a specialist in comedies, which makes this an exercise in style, creating an unbearable suspense , demonstrating its capacity for all genres.

conference immediately after his most recognized and which earned an Oscar nomination, Days of Wine and Roses (1962) directed by Blake Edwards again, this time addressing the drama so solvency as shown for the suspense at in his previous film ..

's Days of Wine and Roses Lee Remick a typical housewife who is driven to alcoholism by her husband, Jack Lemmon. The two paths got Oscar nominations.

The film was considered one of the top ten of the decade as well as the actions of its two performers. This film also won the award for best actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival that year.


But his career did not follow the upward position and this can be considered the zenith of it. He had to wait until 1968 to get a paper to the height of his qualities, which is a nymphomaniac wife in Detective.


Detective is a great film directed police and Detective Douglas Gordon was none other than Frank Sinatra in one of his best performances as an actor.

His career did not go up again, although he was a relative resurgence when he made the mother of Lucifer himself in a major film about the character, prophecy.

His next jobs are already a mediocrity that does not deserve to be mentioned. cite case Europeans (1979) by James Ivory, the famous short novel by Henry James.

died in 1991 in Los Angeles, where he lived, a victim of cancer, having developed in the last stage of life a long and successful career in television, the medium in which he had taken his first steps before debut in the film.

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