She found success opposite Jack Lemmon in It Happened to Jane, a comedy film released in 1959.

Early in Lemmon's career, Lemmon met comedian Ernie Kovacs, during the filming of Operation Mad Ball and co-starred with the comedian in this film.

Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK ( the only film in which both appeared without sharing screen time ).

Spacey would later work with Lemmon in Dad ( 1989 ), the critically acclaimed film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ) and on stage in a revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Much later, after the film was released and his experiences during its production proved unhappy, Reynolds complained to Lemmon and described Avildsen as an " asshole ", whereby Lemmon replied, " I guess you could say that ".

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

Other roles included a comical crook in the 1964 Rat Pack film, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and the 1965 spoof The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

* February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director ( The Odd Couple ) ( d. 2001 )

Days of Wine and Roses, a dark psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

Stone gave Charlie Sheen the choice of Jack Lemmon or Martin Sheen to play his father in the film and the young actor picked his dad.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

The film was planned originally to be filmed in colour, but after several screen tests, it was changed to black and white because of the very obvious ' green tint ' of the heavy make-up required by Curtis and Lemmon when portraying Josephine and Daphne.

The film was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White ( Orry-Kelly ) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Jack Lemmon ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Academy Award for Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

As a favour to the production company, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis agreed to film cameo appearances, returning as their original characters, Daphne and Josephine, at the beginning of the pilot.

In 1979, he both produced and starred in The China Syndrome, a dramatic film co-starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon about a nuclear power plant accident ( the Three Mile Island accident took place 12 days after the film's release ).

The role of Sundance was then offered to Jack Lemmon, whose production company, JML, had produced the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke starring Newman .. Lemmon, however, turned down the role ; he did not like riding horses, and he also felt he had already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before.

The film features Jack Lemmon as a supervisor at a nuclear plant who uncovers evidence of a potential nuclear catastrophe and Jane Fonda as a television news reporter at a California television station.

Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule.

The film also won the Palme d ' Or ( Golden Palm ) at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, where Lemmon was awarded Best Actor for his performance.

Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs # 8245 – 8249 & 117.

The first DCI-compliant DCP to be delivered was created by FotoKem for the Universal Pictures film Serenity, and was shown to an audience at a remote theater, although it was not distributed this way to the public.

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty.

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Dame Edith Evans, both on stage and in the 1952 film, delivered the line loudly in a mixture of horror, incredulity and condescension.

At the end of the film, Tracy delivered a 13 minute speech.

Massot served a writ, leading to a period of stalemate which was finally broken when Grant and Led Zeppelin's lawyer Steve Weiss agreed to pay Massot the money he was owed, after which he delivered the film to the band.

In 1980, Greenaway delivered The Falls ( his first feature-length film ) – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopedia of flight-associated material all relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unknown Event ( VUE ).

Variety, too, very much liked Beery in the film, noting that he delivered a " studied, adult " performance.

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.

The British Film Institute houses an early film, made in 1913, in which a miniature car commissioned by Queen Alexandra for the Crown Prince Olav tows a procession of Londoners through the streets of the capital, before being delivered to a pair of ' royal testers ' of roughly Olav's age.

Barrymore delivered some of the most critically acclaimed performances in theatre and film history and was widely regarded as the screen's greatest performer during a movie career spanning 25 years as a leading man in more than 60 films.

The sensitivity of the new panchromatic film delivered superior image tonal quality and gave directors the freedom to shoot scenes at lower light levels than was previously practical.

Juliet Stevenson told Worth that during rehearsals she had wondered whether the lines were being delivered too fast for viewers to take in their sense theatre critic, Alice Griffin … thought that the lines ‘ came across more clearly and more easily understandable than sometimes in the theatre .’ This she attributed partly to Minghella ’ s use of close-up, a recurring feature of the film versions naturally enough .”

White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains, arguably, her most memorable film quote delivered with hints of a provocative invitation: " I am Tondelayo.

In 1946, Wright delivered another notable performance in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives, an award-winning film about the adjustments of servicemen returning home after World War II.

This allows light to be delivered to the entire area of the film or image sensor even though the shutter is never fully open at any moment, similar to FP sync.

But the film Fields delivered was so surreal Universal recut and reshot parts of it and then quietly released both the film and Fields.

At times in this period Home's film making also became radically non-representational, and rarely required any original cinematography whatsoever ; for example his 2002 fiftieth anniversary English language colour re-make of " Screams In Favour of De Sade ", and 2004 " Eclipse & Re-Emergence of the Oedipus Complex ", the latter consists solely of still photographs of his mother with a narration scripted by Home but delivered by Australian actress Alice Parkinson.

When the movie is finally shown at the press junket, the press, actors, others involved with film discover to their horror that Weidmann essentially junked the script and instead delivered a movie composed of footage shot making the movie-much taken without the actors ' knowledge.

Puzo, fresh from the success of his novel and film, The Godfather, delivered the draft script in August.

As a boy, he had a paper route, and delivered the Los Angeles Times to Cecil B. DeMille and other people in the film industry.