Editing Lee Remick (section)

===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]].