Editing Jack Lemmon (section)

=== Marriage and family ===
Lemmon was married twice. He and first wife actress [[Cynthia Stone]], with whom he had a son, [[Chris Lemmon]] (born 1954), divorced. Lemmon married actress [[Felicia Farr]] on August 17, 1962, while shooting ''Irma La Douce'' in Paris. The couple's daughter, Courtney, was born in 1966.<ref name="NYT1981" /> Lemmon was the stepfather to Denise, from Farr's previous marriage to [[Lee Farr]].<ref>Don Widener ''Lemmon: A Biography'' (1975), page 7</ref> He was close friends with actors [[Tony Curtis]] and [[Kevin Spacey]], among others.

His publicist [[Geraldine McInerney]] said, "I remember Jack once telling me he lived in terror his whole life that he'd never get another job. Here was one of America's most established actors and yet he was without any confidence. It was like every job was going to be his last".<ref name="rte">{{Cite interview |last=McInerney |first=Geraldine |interviewer=Jan Battles |title=Always a woman ahead of her time |url=https://www.rte.ie/tv50/essays/geraldinemcinerney.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917131241/https://www.rte.ie/tv50/essays/geraldinemcinerney.html |archive-date=September 17, 2012 |publisher=RTÉ}}</ref> As the 1970s progressed, Lemmon increased his drinking to cope with stress. He was fined for [[driving under the influence]] in 1976,<!-- British usage as drink-driving in the source which follows.--> finally quitting alcohol in the early 1980s.<ref name="Baxter" /> On a 1998 episode of the television program ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', he stated that he was a recovering alcoholic.<ref name=tca/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-xpm-2013-may-29-la-et-st-james-lipton-20130529-story.html|title=James Lipton's 'Inside the Actors Studio' hits 250 on changing Bravo|author=Meredith Blake|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 29, 2013|access-date=July 30, 2013}}</ref>