According to Crane, Bill Bliss had told Millicent Trent that, after the shot rang out, and while Bliss was having a drink, Leonore Lemmon came downstairs and said, “ Tell them I was down here, tell them I was down here !” In an interview with Carl Glass, Crane expanded on this: " It needed to be said and that is the way I heard it from Millie as it was told to her by Bill Bliss.

She also publicly denied that her son planned to marry Leonore Lemmon, because he had never told her.

Before director Melvin Van Peebles had come into the project, the studio had told him that they were planning to cast a white actor like Alan Arkin or Jack Lemmon to play the part, but that it didn't seem to work quite right.

In his autobiography, " My Life ", Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anybody, even if they deserved it.

This niceness actually backfired for Reynolds: prior to accepting the lead in W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings ( 1975 ), directed by John G. Avildsen, Reynolds asked Lemmon, who Avildsen had directed in Save the Tiger ( 1973 ) for advice about Avildsen as a director.

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 ".

Her first two Hollywood films were The April Fools ( 1969 ), a romantic comedy with Jack Lemmon, and Hustle ( 1975 ), a crime drama with Burt Reynolds.

Lloyd also provided encouragement and support for a number of younger actors, such as Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, and particularly Jack Lemmon, whom Harold declared as his own choice to play him in a movie of his life and work.

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

In the early 1950s, Marge and Gower Champion made seven film musicals: Mr. Music ( 1950, with Bing Crosby ), the 1951 remake of Show Boat ( with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson ), 1952's Lovely to Look At ( a remake of Roberta, also with Keel and Grayson ), the autobiographical Everything I Have Is Yours ( 1952 ), Give a Girl a Break ( 1953, with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse ), Jupiter's Darling ( 1955, with Keel and Esther Williams ), and Three for the Show ( 1955, with Betty Grable and Jack Lemmon ).

Jack Lemmon in a dress was considered ridiculous.

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 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.

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.

Among their pairings was 1968's The Odd Couple, as Felix Ungar ( Lemmon ) and Oscar Madison ( Matthau ).

It was the only movie that Lemmon ever directed and Matthau was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.

In 1996, Lemmon was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

Lemmon was married twice.

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

Lemmon admitted that he was an alcoholic in the late 1960s.

Lemmon was Roman Catholic.

He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California where he is buried near his friend and co-star, Walter Matthau, who died almost exactly one year before Lemmon.

The first thing that Cagney asked Lemmon when they met was if he was still using his left hand.

Methaqualone was manufactured in the United States under the name Quaalude by the pharmaceutical firms Rorer and " Lemmon " with the numbers 714 stamped on the tablet, so people often referred to Quaaludes as 714s, " Lemmons ", or " Lemmon 7s ".

Schickel felt that Wood was " hopelessly miscast ", and that the energies of Lemmon and Curtis did not quite make the slapstick work.

He always appeared happy, but Gibson observes " that is the way some men disguise their unhappiness ", and Lemmon suggests that Chapman was seeking acceptance and felt lonely at heart.

The lifelong feud between Max ( Walter Matthau ) and John ( Jack Lemmon ) has cooled, though they still continue to call each other " moron " and " putz ", but now with affection.

*" Stormy Weather ", performed by Jack Lemmon on the bongo drums with the band at the Zodiac Club ( the Candoli Brothers on trumpets, and Elek Bacsik on guitar )

Natalie first meets Adrian Monk in the episode " Mr. Monk and the Red Herring ", when he investigates two men who had broken into her home, after she stabs and kills Brian Lemmon, the second intruder, in self-defense with a pair of scissors.

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 ).

Jack Lemmon was offered the role first, but when he backed off, Jack Warner, with Taylor's insistence, agreed on Burton and paid him his price.

Walter Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.

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.

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.

Lemmon won an Academy Award for his role as Harry Stoner, an executive at a Los Angeles apparel company on the edge of ruin.

In 1980, Slade adapted his play for a feature film directed by Bob Clark, with Lemmon recreating his performance in the lead role.

Many movies followed, notably the title role in the musical comedy My Sister Eileen, co-starring Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett and Dick York.

She then played the femme fatale role of in the romantic comedy Phffft !, opposite Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, and Jack Carson.

In 1960 he also played Dave Manning in the Broadway comedy Under the Yum-Yum Tree, a role which he repeated in the 1963 movie version starring Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder subsequently gave her the featured role of " Kiki the Cossack " in the 1963 film Irma la Douce with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.

He starred in shows such as Mister Roberts, where he replaced David Wayne in the role of Ensign Frank Pulver, which Jack Lemmon later acted out in the film version, Harold, Foxy, The Apple Tree ( as the devil ), You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, and a revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( with Phil Silvers ), which he helped produce and for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the role of the slave Hysterium.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor in ( 1973 ) for his role as Phil Green in Save the Tiger ( his co-star Jack Lemmon won for Best Actor ).