Editing Lee Remick (section)

==Career==
===Broadway and television===
Remick made her Broadway theatre debut, age 18, in the 1953 production ''Be Your Age''.<ref name=pv>{{cite journal| title=Lee Remick| url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/89855/Lee-Remick| journal=Playbill | access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref> She began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series such as ''[[Armstrong Circle Theatre]]'', ''[[Studio One (American TV series)|Studio One in Hollywood]]'', ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]'', ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'' and ''[[Playhouse 90]]''.<ref>Anderson, Robert (22 August 1959). "TV Saw Her First!" ''Chicago Daily Tribune'': B5.</ref>

===Early films===
Remick made her film debut in [[Elia Kazan]]'s ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]'' (1957). While filming the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the attention of Lonesome Rhodes (played by [[Andy Griffith]]).

After appearing as Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner ([[Orson Welles]]) in ''[[The Long, Hot Summer]]'' (1958), she appeared in ''[[These Thousand Hills]]'' (1959) as a dance hall girl, both for [[20th Century Fox]].

===Film stardom===
Remick came to prominence portraying a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in [[Otto Preminger]]'s ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]'' (1959).

She made a second film with Kazan, ''Wild River'' (1960), which co-starred [[Montgomery Clift]] and [[Jo Van Fleet]]. That year <!-- 1960 -->she played Miranda in a television version of ''[[The Tempest (1960 film)|The Tempest]]'' with Richard Burton.
[[File:Remick - Cukor - 1962.jpg|thumb|right|Rehearsing ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'' with director [[George Cukor]] in 1962]]
Remick was top-billed in ''[[Sanctuary (1961 film)|Sanctuary]]'' (1961) alongside [[Yves Montand]]. She appeared in ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1962 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]'' (1962) on television. She starred opposite [[Glenn Ford]] in the [[Blake Edwards]] suspense-thriller ''[[Experiment in Terror]]'' (1962). The same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of [[Jack Lemmon]] in ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), also directed by Edwards. [[Bette Davis]], also nominated that year for ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'', said "Miss Remick's performance astonished me, and I thought, if I lose the Oscar, it will be to her." They both lost to [[Anne Bancroft]] in ''[[The Miracle Worker]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963 |title=The 35th Academy Awards (1963) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2024-07-04|work=oscars.org|date=5 October 2014 }}</ref>

When [[Marilyn Monroe]] was fired during the filming of the comedy ''[[Something's Got to Give]]'', the studio announced that Remick would be her replacement. Co-star [[Dean Martin]] refused to continue, however, saying that while he admired Remick, he had signed on to the picture strictly to work with Monroe.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}} Remick did  ''[[The Running Man (1963 film)|The Running Man]]'' (1963) with [[Laurence Harvey]] and ''[[The Wheeler Dealers]]'' (1963), with [[James Garner]].

===Return to Broadway and 1965 films===
Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'',<ref name=pv/> with music and lyrics by [[Stephen Sondheim]] and a book and direction by [[Arthur Laurents]], which ran for only one week. Remick's performance is captured on the original cast recording. This began a friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the 1985 concert version of his musical ''[[Follies]]''.<ref>Smith, Cecil (15 October 1963). "Lee Is Singing and She's Glad". ''Los Angeles Times'': D8.</ref>

Remick returned to films with ''[[Baby the Rain Must Fall]]'' (1965), with [[Steve McQueen]] from a script by [[Horton Foote]], and ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]'' (1965) with [[Burt Lancaster]].

In 1966, she starred in the Broadway play ''[[Wait Until Dark]]'' under the direction of [[Arthur Penn]] and co-starring [[Robert Duvall]].<ref name=pv/> It was a big success, and it ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic).<ref>{{cite web| title=Search Results: Lee Remick| url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| website=Tony Awards| access-date=September 26, 2015| archive-date=July 25, 2017| archive-url=https://archive.today/20170725020008/http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| url-status=dead}}</ref> It was adapted into a [[Wait Until Dark (film)|successful film the following year]] starring [[Audrey Hepburn]].

===More films and 1970s===
She performed in ''[[Damn Yankees! (1967 film)|Damn Yankees!]]'' (1967) for TV and starred in ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968) with [[Rod Steiger]] and [[George Segal]], ''[[The Detective (1968 film)|The Detective]]'' (1968) with [[Frank Sinatra]], and ''[[Hard Contract]]'' (1969) with [[James Coburn]].

Remick went to the UK to make ''[[Loot (1970 film)|Loot]]'' (1970) and ''[[A Severed Head (film)|A Severed Head]]'' (1971). Back in the U.S., she was in ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]'' (1971). 

She appeared in ''[[Hennessy (film)|Hennessy]]'' (1975), with [[Rod Steiger]]. She co-starred with [[Gregory Peck]] in the 1976 horror film ''[[The Omen]]''. The film was a commercial success.

Remick followed it up with leading actress roles in ''[[Telefon (film)|Telefon]]'' (1977), with [[Charles Bronson]]; ''[[The Medusa Touch (film)|The Medusa Touch]]'' (1978) with [[Richard Burton]]; the television miniseries ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]'' (1979) with [[Rock Hudson]]; ''[[Ike: The War Years]]'' (1979) portraying [[Kay Summersby]]; and ''[[The Europeans (1979 film)|The Europeans]]'' (1979) for director [[James Ivory]].<ref>Smith, Cecil (30 April 1979). "A Rush of Lee Remick on Television" ''Los Angeles Times'': E1.</ref>

Remick starred in many TV movies beginning with ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972 film)|The Man Who Came to Dinner]]'' (1972) with [[Orson Welles]]. She followed it with ''[[Summer and Smoke]]'' (1972) for British TV; ''[[And No One Could Save Her]]'' (1973); ''Of Men and Women'' (1973), an unsuccessful pilot; ''[[The Blue Knight (film)|The Blue Knight]]'' (1973) with [[William Holden]]; ''[[A Delicate Balance (film)|A Delicate Balance]]'' (1973) with [[Katharine Hepburn]]; ''[[QB VII (miniseries)|QB VII]]'' (1974); ''Touch Me Not'', a.k.a. ''The Hunted'' (1974); ''[[Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill]]'' (1975), playing the title role, which earned her an Emmy nomination; ''[[Hustling (film)|Hustling]]'' (1975) with [[Jill Clayburgh]]; ''[[A Girl Named Sooner]]'' (1975); ''[[Breaking Up (1978 film)|Breaking Up]]'' (1978); and ''[[Torn Between Two Lovers (film)|Torn Between Two Lovers]]'' (1979) with [[George Peppard]].

===1980s===
Remick played [[Margaret Sullavan]] in ''[[Haywire (1980 film)|Haywire]]'' (1980) and earned an Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Special). She had the lead in ''[[The Women's Room (film)|The Women's Room]]'' (1980) and supporting roles in ''[[The Competition (1980 film)|The Competition]]'' (1980) and ''[[Tribute (1980 film)|Tribute]]'' (1980), the latter with Lemmon.

Remick starred in ''[[The Letter (1982 film)|The Letter]]'' (1982), ''[[The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story]]'' (1983) and a TV adaptation of ''[[I Do! I Do! (musical)|I Do! I Do!]]'' (1984). She had a role in the miniseries ''[[Mistral's Daughter]]'' (1984), adapted from the novel by [[Judith Krantz]]. The reviewer of ''The New York Times'' praised Remick for portraying Kate "to fresh-faced clawing perfection".<ref>O'Connor, John J. (September 24, 1984). "TV REVIEW; 'Mistral's Daughter' Starts Tonight". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 22, 2013.</ref>

Remick was in ''[[Rearview_Mirror_(film)|Rearview Mirror]]'' (1984), ''[[Toughlove]]'' (1985), ''[[Of Pure Blood]]'' (1986), and ''[[Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder]]'' (1987), earning another Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special). She went to Australia to make ''[[Emma's War (film)|Emma's War]]'' (1987).

Remick's later performances include ''[[The Vision (film)|The Vision]]'' (1987) with [[Dirk Bogarde]], ''[[Jesse (film)|Jesse]]'' (1988), ''[[Bridge to Silence]]'' (1989) and playing [[Sarah Bernhardt]] in ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1989 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (1989). Her last performance was the lead in the TV movie ''[[Dark Holiday]]'' (1989).