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'''Lee Ann Remick''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|ɛ|m|ɪ|k}};<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=Jerry |title=Lee Remick: Her Life Story (Jerry Skinner Documentary) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k2-XK-q6-o |website=YouTube |access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref> December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the ] for the film '']'' (1962) and was nominated for the ] for her role in '']'' (1966). She also earned seven Emmy Award nominations.
Lee Remick was born on ], ] at ], ] and died of kidney cancer on ], ] in ].


Remick made her film debut in '']'' (1957). Her other notable film roles include '']'' (1959), '']'' (1960), ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), '']'' (1968), '']'' (1968), '']'' (1976), and '']'' (1979).
She was educated at the Hewitt School, Barnard College, Swaboda Ballet School and became an actress in motion pictures, on stage, and in television dramas and miniseries.


She won ] for the TV film '']'' (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries '']'' (1974). For the latter role, she won the ]. In April 1991, she received a star on the ].
She received a ] nomination in 1966 for her role as the woman terrorized by drug smugglers in "Wait Until Dark."


==Early life==
Her first husband was Bill Coleran, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was Kip Gowans.
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia<ref name=dr/><ref name=sbcs/>) (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store.<ref> The Churchill Centre<!-- Bot generated title -->{{dead link|date=November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |access-date=January 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103015007/http://www.rememberleeremick.com/family/remember_remicks1.htm |title=Archived copy |archive-date=November 3, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A2141E9D902E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 3, 1991 |title=Lee Remick: From A Face To A Firm Place In The Hollywood Crowd}}</ref> She had one older brother, Bruce.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/obituaries/lee-remick-55-actress-in-roles-from-enticing-to-tormented-dies.html |title=Lee Remick, 55, Actress in Roles From Enticing to Tormented, Dies |date=July 3, 1991 |author=Andrew L. Yarrow |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=April 26, 2020}}</ref> One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-06-ca-1909-story.html| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| first=Charles| last=Champlin| title=Remick Endures Despite Personal Ordeal: Profile: Actress waged a 'drastic and horrible and successful' fight against kidney cancer. Now, she prepares for a role in the miniseries 'The Young Catherine.'| date=March 6, 1990}}</ref>


Remick attended the Swoboda School of Dance and The ].<ref name=sbcs/>
'''Some of her work:'''
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==Career==
'''Stage Plays:'''
===Broadway and television===
*], (1964)
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 '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''.<ref>Anderson, Robert (22 August 1959). "TV Saw Her First!" ''Chicago Daily Tribune'': B5.</ref>
*], (1966)

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===Early films===
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Remick made her film debut in ]'s ''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 ]).
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After appearing as Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner (]) in '']'' (1958), she appeared in '']'' (1959) as a dance hall girl, both for ].

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

She made a second film with Kazan, ''Wild River'' (1960), which co-starred ] and ]. That year <!-- 1960 -->she played Miranda in a television version of '']'' with Richard Burton.
]'' with director ] in 1962]]
Remick was top-billed in '']'' (1961) alongside ]. She appeared in '']'' (1962) on television. She starred opposite ] in the ] suspense-thriller '']'' (1962). The same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of ] in ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), also directed by Edwards. ], also nominated that year for '']'', said "Miss Remick's performance astonished me, and I thought, if I lose the Oscar, it will be to her." They both lost to ] in '']''.<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}}</ref>

When ] was fired during the filming of the comedy '']'', the studio announced that Remick would be her replacement. Co-star ] 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 '']'' (1963) with ] and '']'' (1963), with ].

===Return to Broadway and 1965 films===
Remick next appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical '']'',<ref name=pv/> with music and lyrics by ] and a book and direction by ], 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 '']''.<ref>Smith, Cecil (15 October 1963). "Lee Is Singing and She's Glad". ''Los Angeles Times'': D8.</ref>

Remick returned to films with '']'' (1965), with ] from a script by ], and '']'' (1965) with ].

In 1966, she starred in the Broadway play '']'' under the direction of ] and co-starring ].<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 ] starring ].

===More films and 1970s===
She performed in '']'' (1967) for TV and starred in ''No Way to Treat a Lady'' (1968) with ] and ], ''The Detective'' (1968) with ], and '']'' (1969) with ].

Remick went to the UK to make '']'' (1970) and '']'' (1971). Back in the U.S., she was in '']'' (1971).

She appeared in '']'' (1975), with ]. She co-starred with ] in the 1976 horror film '']''. The film was a commercial success.

Remick followed it up with leading actress roles in '']'' (1977), with ]; '']'' (1978) with ]; the television miniseries '']'' (1979) with ]; '']'' (1979) portraying ]; and '']'' (1979) for director ].<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 '']'' (1972) with ]. She followed it with '']'' (1972) for British TV; '']'' (1973); ''Of Men and Women'' (1973), an unsuccessful pilot; '']'' (1973) with ]; '']'' (1973) with ]; '']'' (1974); ''Touch Me Not'', a.k.a. ''The Hunted'' (1974); '']'' (1975), playing the title role, which earned her an Emmy nomination; '']'' (1975) with ]; '']'' (1975); '']'' (1978); and '']'' (1979) with ].

===1980s===
Remick played ] in '']'' (1980) and earned an Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Special). She had the lead in '']'' (1980) and supporting roles in '']'' (1980) and '']'' (1980), the latter with Lemmon.

Remick starred in '']'' (1982), '']'' (1983) and a TV adaptation of '']'' (1984). She had a role in the miniseries '']'' (1984), adapted from the novel by ]. 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 '']'' (1984), '']'' (1985), '']'' (1986), and '']'' (1987), earning another Emmy nomination (as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special). She went to Australia to make '']'' (1987).

Remick's later performances include '']'' (1987) with ], '']'' (1988), '']'' (1989) and playing ] in '']'' (1989). Her last performance was the lead in the TV movie '']'' (1989).

==Recognition==
Remick was awarded the ] ] in 1990.<ref name=WIF>{{cite web |title=Past Recipients: Crystal Award |url=http://wif.org/past-recipients |work=Women In Film |access-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |archive-date=July 24, 2011 }}</ref>

She has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the ] at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated on April 29, 1991.<ref>{{cite web| title=Lee Remick| url=http://www.walkoffame.com/lee-remick| website=Hollywood Walk of Fame| access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
]
Remick married producer Bill Colleran, whose credits include '']'', '']'' and '']'' on August 3, 1957. They had two children, Katherine Lee Colleran (b. January 27, 1959) and Matthew Remick Colleran (b. June 7, 1961).<ref name=dr>{{cite news| last1=Mead| first1=Mimi| title=She Prefers Musicals| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/551343/lee_remick/| newspaper=The Daily Reporter| location=Dover, Ohio| date=April 6, 1967| page=7| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=September 26, 2015}}{{Open access}}</ref> Remick and Colleran divorced in 1968.

Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18, 1970. He was an assistant director on films such as ] (1965), ] (1967) and '']'' (1968) before they married, and afterward worked on ] (1972), '']'' (1976) and ] (1979). She moved with Gowans to England and remained married to him until her death.<ref name=sbcs>{{cite news| last1=Shearer| first1=Lloyd| title=Lee Remick: From Baton Twirler to 'Jennie'| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3302959/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/| newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun| date=January 11, 1976| pages=99–100| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=September 26, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> She starred in four telefilms he produced, '']'' (1980), '']'' (1982), ''Rearview Mirror'' (1984) and '']'' (1986). Remick and Gowans spent time in both England and Osterville, Massachusetts, which she considered her "true home".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://eu.patriotledger.com/story/entertainment/movies/2010/12/14/lee-remick-at-75-some/40163689007/| title=Lee Remick at 75: Some in Quincy still remember the city’s other famous actress| last=Lambert| first=Lane| date=December 14, 2010| newspaper=The Patriot Ledger| location=Quincy, Massachusetts| access-date=August 20, 2024}}</ref>

In the spring of 1989, Remick was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Treatments at first seemed to be successful.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remick Endures Despite Personal Ordeal : Profile: Actress waged a ‘drastic and horrible and successful’ fight against kidney cancer. Now, she prepares for a role in the miniseries ‘The Young Catherine.’
|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-06-ca-1909-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en}}</ref> However, this proved not to be true, and she died on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Actress Lee Remick Dead of Cancer at Age 55|url=https://apnews.com/article/370b8d5265964d448bb9069eb0f2132d|access-date=2021-07-01|website=AP NEWS|language=en}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news| last1=Yarrow| first1=Andrew L.| title=Lee Remick, 55, Actress in Roles From Enticing to Tormented, Dies| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/obituaries/lee-remick-55-actress-in-roles-from-enticing-to-tormented-dies.html| access-date=September 27, 2015| newspaper=The New York Times| date=July 3, 1991}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
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Remick was the subject of "]", the 1978 debut single by the Australian indie rock band ]. Songwriter ] mistakenly thought Remick was from Ireland, and he makes references to this idea in the song. In reality, Remick was American-born and raised (as were her parents); after 1970, she divided her time between England (where she had family ancestry) and the U.S.

The British indie rock band ] recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, unrelated to the Go-Betweens' single.

==Filmography==

===Film===
] and ] on the set of ''A Face in the Crowd'' (1957)]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1957 || '']'' || Betty Lou Fleckum || Film debut
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| 1958 || '']'' || Eula Varner ||
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| 1959 || '']'' || Callie ||
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| 1959 || '']'' || Laura Manion || Nominated—]
|-
| 1960 || '']'' || Carol Garth Baldwin ||
|-
| 1961 || '']'' || ] ||
|- valign="top"
| 1962 || '']'' || Kelly Sherwood ||
|-
| 1962 || '']'' || Kirsten Arnesen Clay || Nominated—]<br />Nominated—]<br />Nominated—] <br /> ]
|-
| 1963 || '']'' || Stella Black ||
|-
| 1963 || '']'' || Molly Thatcher ||
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| 1965 || '']'' || Georgette Thomas ||
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| 1965 || '']'' || Cora Templeton Massingale ||
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| 1965 || '']'' || Cocktail Waitress || Uncredited
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| 1968 || '']'' || Kate Palmer ||
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| 1968 || '']'' || Karen Leland ||
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| 1969 || '']'' || Sheila Metcalfe ||
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| 1970 || '']'' || Nurse Fay McMahon ||
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| 1970 || '']'' || Antonia Lynch-Gibbon ||
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| 1971 || '']'' || Viv Stamper ||
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| 1973 || '']'' || Julia ||
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| 1974 || ''Touch Me Not'' || Elanor ||
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| 1975 || '']'' || Kate Brooke ||
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| 1976 || '']'' || Katherine Thorn ||
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| 1977 || '']'' || Barbara ||
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| 1978 || '']'' || Doctor Zonfeld ||
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| 1979 || '']'' || Baroness Eugenia Young Munster ||
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| 1980 || '']'' || Greta Vandemann ||
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| 1980 || '']'' || Maggie Stratton ||
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| 1988 || '']'' || Anne Grange ||
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| 2024 || '']'' ||Katherine Thorn ||Archival footage
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Title
! Role
! Notes
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| 1954 || '']'' || Jessie Benson || Episode: "The Death and Life of Larry Benson"
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| 1956 || ''Studio One'' || Elaine Baylee || Episode: "The Landlady's Daughter"
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| 1960 || '']'' || ]|| TV movie
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| 1962 || '']'' || Katrin Holstrom || TV movie
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| 1967 || '']'' || Lola || TV movie
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| 1972 || '']'' || Maggie Cutler || TV movie
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| 1972 || '']''|| Alma Winemiller || Episode: "Summer and Smoke"
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| 1973 || '']'' || Fern O'Neil || TV movie
|-
| 1973 || '']'' || Cassie Walters || TV movie<br />]<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1974 || '']'' || Lady Margaret || 2 episodes<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1974 || '']'' || ] || 7 episodes<br />]<br />]<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1975 || '']'' || Fran Morrison || TV movie
|-
| 1975 || '']'' || Elizabeth McHenry || TV movie
|-
| 1977 || ''The Ambassadors'' || Maria Gostrey || TV movie
|-
| 1978 || '']'' || Joann Hammil || TV movie
|-
| 1978 || '']'' || Erica Trenton || TV movie<br />Nominated—]<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1979 || '']'' || Diana Conti || TV movie
|-
| 1979 || '']''|| ]|| 3 episodes
|-
| 1980 || '']'' || ]|| TV movie<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1980 || '']'' || Mira Adams || TV movie
|-
| 1982 || '']'' || She || TV movie
|-
| 1982 || '']'' || Leslie Crosbie || TV movie<br />Nominated—]
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| 1983 || '']'' || Janet Broderick || TV movie
|-
| 1984 || '']'' || Kate Browning || TV miniseries
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| 1984 || ''A Good Sport'' || Michelle Tenney || TV movie
|-
| 1984 || '']'' || Terry Seton || TV movie
|-
| 1985 || '']'' || Jan Charters || TV movie
|-
| 1985 || '']''|| The Snow Queen || Episode: "The Snow Queen"
|-
| 1986 || '']'' || ] || Episode: "Eleanor: In Her Own Words"<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1986 || '']'' || Alicia Browning || TV movie
|-
| 1987 || '']'' || Frances Schreuder || TV movie<br />Nominated—]
|-
| 1988 || '']'' || Jesse Maloney || TV movie
|-
| 1988 || '']'' || Grace Gardner || TV movie
|-
| 1989 || '']'' || Marge Duffield || TV movie
|-
| 1989 || '']'' || ] || 3 episodes
|-
| 1989 || '']'' || Gene LePere || TV movie<br />a.k.a. ''Passport to Terror''<ref>decades on CBS</ref>
|}

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American actress (1935–1991) For other uses, see Lee Remick (disambiguation).
Lee Remick
Remick in 1974
BornLee Ann Remick
(1935-12-14)December 14, 1935
Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 2, 1991(1991-07-02) (aged 55)
Brentwood, California, U.S.
EducationBarnard College
Actors Studio
OccupationActress
Years active1953–1990
Spouses
Bill Colleran ​ ​(m. 1957; div. 1968)​
Kip Gowans ​(m. 1970)​
Children2

Lee Ann Remick (/ˈrɛmɪk/; December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Wait Until Dark (1966). She also earned seven Emmy Award nominations.

Remick made her film debut in A Face in the Crowd (1957). Her other notable film roles include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Wild River (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), The Detective (1968), The Omen (1976), and The Europeans (1979).

She won Golden Globe Awards for the TV film The Blue Knight (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974). For the latter role, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. In April 1991, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Early life

Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret (two sources say Patricia) (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store. She had one older brother, Bruce. One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Eliza Duffield, was a preacher born in England.

Remick attended the Swoboda School of Dance and The Hewitt School.

Career

Broadway and television

Remick made her Broadway theatre debut, age 18, in the 1953 production Be Your Age. She began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Television Theatre and Playhouse 90.

Early films

Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's 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 she played Miranda in a television version of The Tempest with Richard Burton.

Rehearsing Something's Got to Give with director George Cukor in 1962

Remick was top-billed in Sanctuary (1961) alongside Yves Montand. She appeared in 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?, 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.

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. Remick did 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, 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.

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. It was a big success, and it ran for 373 performances; Remick was nominated for a Tony award for Best Actress (Dramatic). It was adapted into a successful film the following year starring Audrey Hepburn.

More films and 1970s

She performed in Damn Yankees! (1967) for TV and starred in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) with Rod Steiger and George Segal, The Detective (1968) with Frank Sinatra, and Hard Contract (1969) with James Coburn.

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

She appeared in 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 (1977), with Charles Bronson; The Medusa Touch (1978) with Richard Burton; the television miniseries Wheels (1979) with Rock Hudson; Ike: The War Years (1979) portraying Kay Summersby; and The Europeans (1979) for director James Ivory.

Remick starred in many TV movies beginning with 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 (1973) with William Holden; A Delicate Balance (1973) with Katharine Hepburn; 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 (1975) with Jill Clayburgh; A Girl Named Sooner (1975); Breaking Up (1978); and Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) with George Peppard.

1980s

Remick played Margaret Sullavan in 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 (1980) and supporting roles in The Competition (1980) and Tribute (1980), the latter with Lemmon.

Remick starred in The Letter (1982), The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) and a TV adaptation of 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".

Remick was in 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 (1987).

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

Recognition

Remick was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1990.

She has a star in the Motion Pictures section on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated on April 29, 1991.

Personal life

Remick in 1960

Remick married producer Bill Colleran, whose credits include Your Hit Parade, The Dean Martin Show and The Judy Garland Show on August 3, 1957. They had two children, Katherine Lee Colleran (b. January 27, 1959) and Matthew Remick Colleran (b. June 7, 1961). Remick and Colleran divorced in 1968.

Remick married British producer William Rory "Kip" Gowans on December 18, 1970. He was an assistant director on films such as Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968) before they married, and afterward worked on Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Human Factor (1979). She moved with Gowans to England and remained married to him until her death. She starred in four telefilms he produced, The Women's Room (1980), The Letter (1982), Rearview Mirror (1984) and Of Pure Blood (1986). Remick and Gowans spent time in both England and Osterville, Massachusetts, which she considered her "true home".

In the spring of 1989, Remick was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Treatments at first seemed to be successful. However, this proved not to be true, and she died on July 2, 1991, at the age of 55.

Popular culture

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Remick was the subject of "Lee Remick", the 1978 debut single by the Australian indie rock band The Go-Betweens. Songwriter Robert Forster mistakenly thought Remick was from Ireland, and he makes references to this idea in the song. In reality, Remick was American-born and raised (as were her parents); after 1970, she divided her time between England (where she had family ancestry) and the U.S.

The British indie rock band Hefner recorded a song titled "Lee Remick" in 1998, unrelated to the Go-Betweens' single.

Filmography

Film

Remick (left) with Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal on the set of A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Year Title Role Notes
1957 A Face in the Crowd Betty Lou Fleckum Film debut
1958 The Long, Hot Summer Eula Varner
1959 These Thousand Hills Callie
1959 Anatomy of a Murder Laura Manion Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
1960 Wild River Carol Garth Baldwin
1961 Sanctuary Temple Drake
1962 Experiment in Terror Kelly Sherwood
1962 Days of Wine and Roses Kirsten Arnesen Clay Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Silver Shell for Best Actress
1963 The Running Man Stella Black
1963 The Wheeler Dealers Molly Thatcher
1965 Baby the Rain Must Fall Georgette Thomas
1965 The Hallelujah Trail Cora Templeton Massingale
1965 The Satan Bug Cocktail Waitress Uncredited
1968 No Way to Treat a Lady Kate Palmer
1968 The Detective Karen Leland
1969 Hard Contract Sheila Metcalfe
1970 Loot Nurse Fay McMahon
1970 A Severed Head Antonia Lynch-Gibbon
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion Viv Stamper
1973 A Delicate Balance Julia
1974 Touch Me Not Elanor
1975 Hennessy Kate Brooke
1976 The Omen Katherine Thorn
1977 Telefon Barbara
1978 The Medusa Touch Doctor Zonfeld
1979 The Europeans Baroness Eugenia Young Munster
1980 The Competition Greta Vandemann
1980 Tribute Maggie Stratton
1988 Emma's War Anne Grange
2024 The First Omen Katherine Thorn Archival footage

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1954 Studio One Jessie Benson Episode: "The Death and Life of Larry Benson"
1956 Studio One Elaine Baylee Episode: "The Landlady's Daughter"
1960 The Tempest Miranda TV movie
1962 The Farmer's Daughter Katrin Holstrom TV movie
1967 Damn Yankees! Lola TV movie
1972 The Man Who Came to Dinner Maggie Cutler TV movie
1972 BBC Play of the Month Alma Winemiller Episode: "Summer and Smoke"
1973 And No One Could Save Her Fern O'Neil TV movie
1973 The Blue Knight Cassie Walters TV movie
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1974 QB VII Lady Margaret 2 episodes
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1974 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill Lady Randolph Churchill 7 episodes
BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1975 Hustling Fran Morrison TV movie
1975 A Girl Named Sooner Elizabeth McHenry TV movie
1977 The Ambassadors Maria Gostrey TV movie
1978 Breaking Up Joann Hammil TV movie
1978 Wheels Erica Trenton TV movie
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1979 Torn Between Two Lovers Diana Conti TV movie
1979 Ike: The War Years Kay Summersby 3 episodes
1980 Haywire Margaret Sullavan TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1980 The Women's Room Mira Adams TV movie
1982 I Do! I Do! She TV movie
1982 The Letter Leslie Crosbie TV movie
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1983 The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story Janet Broderick TV movie
1984 Mistral's Daughter Kate Browning TV miniseries
1984 A Good Sport Michelle Tenney TV movie
1984 Rearview Mirror Terry Seton TV movie
1985 Toughlove Jan Charters TV movie
1985 Faerie Tale Theatre The Snow Queen Episode: "The Snow Queen"
1986 American Playhouse Eleanor Roosevelt Episode: "Eleanor: In Her Own Words"
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Informational Programming
1986 Of Pure Blood Alicia Browning TV movie
1987 Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder Frances Schreuder TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1988 Jesse Jesse Maloney TV movie
1988 The Vision Grace Gardner TV movie
1989 Bridge to Silence Marge Duffield TV movie
1989 Around the World in 80 Days Sarah Bernhardt 3 episodes
1989 Dark Holiday Gene LePere TV movie
a.k.a. Passport to Terror

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  22. decades on CBS

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Awards for Lee Remick
BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress
1955–1975
1976–2000
2001–present
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama
1969–1979
1980–1999
2000–2019
2020–present
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
1951–1975
1976–2000
2001–present
Silver Shell for Best Actress
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