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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...
...strong but reasonable blow. Hurting after blowing $30 million on Cleopatra in Rome, 20th Century-Fox was in no mood to put up with fresh indignities in Hollywood. First, they fired Marilyn Monroe for her spectacular absenteeism from Something's Got to Give, and replaced her with Lee Remick. But then the studio had to contend with Co-Star Dean Martin (salary: $300,000), who refused the substitution. O.K., said Fox; no public apology, no Marilyn. But, predicted one studio executive at week's end, with more than $2,000,000 already spent, "I think they...
...spinster who unapologetically "traded on my love for children," Miss Hewitt prospered. Her love of the theater encouraged such later stars as Julie Harris and Lee Remick (class of '53), while her firm stage manager's hand gave it the reputation as a "good solid school for girls," which attracted Oveta Gulp Hobby's daughter Jessica, Edsel Ford's daughter Dodie, and 489 other graduates whose fathers paid fees up to $1,300 a year for day sessions and $3,000 for boarding...
...MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...
...maid mumbles something about saving the heroine from herself, but her principal function is obviously to rescue Faulkner from the moiling unmotivated mess of his plot. Actresses Remick and Odetta sometimes polarize the disorder with a powerful, paradoxical image of salvation: the black earth-mother hanged on a flimsy white flibbertigibbet. But on the whole, Producer Richard (son of Darryl) Zanuck's attempt to clean up Faulkner for the family seems a bit like trying to smear the whole of Yoknapatawpha County with underarm deodorant. It might just possibly be done, but it sure does seem a peculiar thing...