Word: lemmons
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...Lemmon the successful and award-winning actor made alpha male in 1962's alcoholic drama "Days of Wine and Roses," and the performance, opposite Lee Remick as his led-down-the-drain wife, is legendary. But the man was a born foil, whose career spiked in two collaborations. One was with Billy Wilder, who directed Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment," two of the best films of the century thanks in no small part to Lemmon, and after that, "Irma La Douce," "The Fortune Cookie," "Avanti!" "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy...
...other was with Walter Matthau. Lemmon was his longtime buddy's Costello in 1966's "The Fortune Cookie," as the hapless cameraman trampled by a runaway football player and browbeaten into filing a false insurance claim by his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law. In 1968's "The Odd Couple," Lemmon was the surrealistically fastidious Felix Unger to Matthau's slovenly Oscar Madison - a movie whose comedic bliss is occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring...
...That Lemmon took this sort of role to new, even painful heights is of course proof of his actorly genius, which certainly seemed to spring from some deep sense of haplessness in the man himself. Lemmon liked to tell the story of the night he won his first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor as the unforgettable Ensign Pulver in 1955's "Mister Roberts...
...Naturally I was thrilled, and I arrived at the Pantages Theater in my best tuxedo. I walked up a ramp to a platform for an interview, and I leaned against a railing," Lemmon recalled. "Only after I finished did I see a sign that said 'Fresh Paint...
...Lemmon had his "serious actor" side, which he pursued rather more hotly as his career went on. Of his seven Oscar nominations for lead actor, two were for comedies; five were for dramas...