Word: dowson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adapted by J. P. Miller from his television play and titled with a line from Ernest Dowson, Days of Wine and Roses recites the case histories of two alcoholics: a public relations man (Jack Lemmon) and the secretary (Lee Remick) he marries. When they meet, she is hooked on chocolate bars, but he pretty soon switches her to the sauce. Hour after hour she sits tippling with TV, and he is too busy watching pink elephants to notice that they are pouring their lives down the hatch. He runs through five jobs in four years before he crawls...