Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lemmon spoke of his love for the stage, saying:"The feeling of working in front of an audience,there is nothing like that in the world...I havealways preferred theater to film. That contactbetween you and an audience...you can feel whenit's not right. There is no feeling like that...
Actor Jack Lemmon '47 discussed his acting experience from Harvard to Hollywood with a crowd of about 60 undergraduates in the Eliot House Library yesterday...
...Lemmon is in town for ArtsFirst weekend to receive the first annual Harvard Arts medal, an award for an alumnus "who has gone on into the creative arts after life as a Harvard undergraduate," said actor and Chair of the Harvard Board of Overseers' Committee on the Arts John Lithgow '67, who moderated the discussion. The discussion was part of the "Learning From Performers" series sponsored by the Office for the Arts...
...When I was here there was nothing in the arts," Lemmon said. "If you had told any of us that did care about acting, writing, directing, film, painting or whatever at that time, that Bobby Brustein and Loeb ,Theatre were going to be here one day, we wouldhave said, 'You're crazy, not here, not at thisplace, because they don't care. They are notinterested.' It was totally different than it istoday as far as attitude and any concentration inthe arts, creative or interpretive...
With no drama department, Harvard has established an almost unmatched tradition of student-run college theater. Directors such as Peter Sellars '81 and Bill Rauch '84 have gained national recognition with talents honed as undergraduate directors of major campus productions. And Jack Lemmon '47, who will be honored with the first Harvard Arts Medal on Saturday, is just one of many professional actors to emerge from Harvard's amateur theater...