Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered ; the Wilder biography Nobody's Perfect quotes the director as saying, " Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat ".

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.

Matthau would later join Jack Lemmon in the movie version.

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.

Oscar nominations would come Matthau's way again for 1972's Kotch, directed by Lemmon, and 1975's The Sunshine Boys, another Simon vehicle transferred from the stage, this one about a pair of former vaudeville stars.

They became lifelong friends after making The Fortune Cookie and would make a total of 10 movies together — 11 counting Kotch, in which Lemmon has a cameo as a sleeping bus passenger.

The program was distributed under a " ShonenWare " license ; it was free to use, but if the user purchased a Shonen Knife CD and convinced Lemmon that he or she had listened to it, then Lemmon would consider that to be sufficient to register that user.

By the time she returned to the screen for Fire Down Below ( 1957 ) with Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak had become Columbia's top female star.

By the time his career ended, his weight had increased even further, and Lemmon believes that he had become an embarrassment to other cricketers and subsequently faded away without much comment.

He decided to keep the name Lemmon and went on to become a Hollywood legend.

During a Franchise Expo, the Investorettes become members of the glamorous " Fleet-A-Pita " franchise, in return prompting Marge to join a much smaller one called " Pretzel Wagon ", owned by a man named Frank Ormand ( Jack Lemmon ).

Actor Kevin Spacey recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( NBC, 1988 ) starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate ( Michael Murphy ) in Tanner ' 88 ( also 1988 ), Robert Altman's political satire for HBO.

* 1986: Broadhurst Theatre ( Broadway ), New York ; with Jack Lemmon ( James ), Bethel Leslie ( Mary ), Kevin Spacey ( Jamie ), Peter Gallagher ( Edmund ), and Jodie Lynne McClintock ( Cathleen ), directed by Jonathan Miller.

The 1987 made for TV film starred Kevin Spacey as Jamie, Peter Gallagher as Edmund, Jack Lemmon as James Tyrone, Bethel Leslie as Mary, and Jodie Lynne McClintock as Cathleen.

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is also known for his uncanny impressions of other movie stars, and during his appearance on Inside The Actor's Studio, demonstrated nine of these upon request, including Katharine Hepburn, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

The film stars Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey and Ethan Hawke, and was written and directed by Gary David Goldberg.

He spent considerable time in Dallas, at the campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue, where he had an office.

Jack Lemmon in a dress was considered ridiculous.

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

* 1989 – Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves ( b. 1923 )

Jack Lemmon presented Groucho with an honorary Academy Award in 1974, his final major public appearance, in which he received a standing ovation.

John Uhler " Jack " Lemmon III ( February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001 ) was an American actor and musician.

Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue ( née Noel ) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company.

Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts.

Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign.

Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and many more.

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.

Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films-Bell, Book and Candle.

and It Happened to Jane In 1977 PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs ' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series.

Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary, Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius.

Lemmon recorded an album in 1958 while filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe.

Twelve jazz tracks were created for Lemmon and another twelve were added.

Lemmon played the piano and recorded his own versions of Monroe's trademark songs, I Wanna Be Loved By You and I'm Through With Love, for the album which was released in 1959 as A Twist of Lemmon / Some Like It Hot.

Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts ( 1955 ) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger ( 1973 ), becoming the first actor to achieve this double.

Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sundance Kid, later played by Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down.

Lemmon often appeared in films partnered with actor Walter Matthau.

In 1971, Lemmon directed Matthau in the comedy Kotch.