Word: lemmons
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...Save the Tiger," in which he played a dress manufacturer who lets his youthful ethics slip away, won him the Oscar for best actor of 1973. The project was rejected by studios until Paramount agreed to make it on a $1 million budget - Lemmon cut his salary to the Guild minimum of $165 a week to make the picture's ends meet...
...Lemmon was the broken-willed heart of David Mamet's classic sucked-dry-salesmen ensemble talker "Glengarry Glen Ross" (a performance that not only gave the picture its due dose of pathos but inspired a "Simpsons" character, the recurring sad-sack salesman "Gil"). In his later years, television gave Lemmon his senior-circuit thespianic showcase, appearing in acclaimed versions of "Inherit the Wind" and "12 Angry Men" with George C. Scott, and winning an Emmy as the dying professor in the 2000 TV adaptation of the best seller "Tuesdays with Morrie...
...life, Lemmon became one of American cinema's grand old men, almost by default - all his first bananas had long since left us. And as those small yet bottomless eyes became beveled-off with crinkled skin, that look - plaintive, pleading, pathetic - never left them. His biographer was convinced he knew...
...persona on screen, he was one of the saddest men I've known," Don Widener, who penned the 1975 biography "Lemmon," told the Associated Press in an interview Thursday. "You could see it in his eyes. The face would be laughing but his eyes were sad. I never found out why that...
...seldom think that I'm up for a good role," Lemmon said in a 1975 interview. "I nearly walked out on 'Days of Wine and Roses' and 'Some Like It Hot' because I didn't think I could handle the demands they made upon me as an actor. But if you think I'm insecure now, you should've seen me when I was first breaking...