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John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Lemmon was born in an elevator[citation needed] 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. He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Adams 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. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.
Actors: Joaquim de Almeida (actor), Lawrence Pressman (actor), Noel Neill (actress), Robert Amico (actor), Rhoda Pell (actress), Randall Batinkoff (actor), Margaret O'Brien (actress), Rudolf Martin (actor), Paul Gregory (producer), Paul Gregory (actor), Paul Gregory (actor), Paul Gregory (actor), Curtis Reid (actor), Lenny von Dohlen (actor), Jon Provost (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Sheree North (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Tracey Gold (actress), Norman Mailer (writer), Lawrence Schiller (producer), Lance Rosen (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Frank Pesce (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Alex Romero (actor), Catherine Hicks (actress), John Ireland (actor), Jack Arnold (director), William Goldstein (composer),
Plot: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.
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