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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...
...real Jack Lemmon, however, will be present here at Harvard over the weekend, and present in the other delightful films which from the Harvard Film Archive feature--"Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment," and "How to Murder Your Wife." Lemmon has had a distinguished career of giving pleasure to his audience, one we celebrate this weekend...
...Lemmon is at the center of the film, and he brings down the entire enterprise. Dreadfully earnest and concerned, he is the virtuous, apolitical innocent with whom the audience is supposed to identify. Lemmon's performance is twitchy and insufferable. It is almost impossible to believe that this man is the same Jack Lemmon who tangoed with a rose between his teeth while dressed in a flapper's dress. What's really "Missing" here is the real Jack Lemmon...
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...