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Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe dressed as musicians with a band in a train car in a scene from the 1959 film Some Like It Hot. Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon in a black-and-white scene from the film The Apartment, with MacLaine looking forward and Lemmon glancing at her. The Fortune Cookie scene from the film Save the Tiger Black-and-white publicity photo from Some Like It Hot showing Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag embracing Marilyn Monroe, who stands between them winking. Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay and Lee Remick as Kirsten Arnesen Clay stand close together, reflected in a large mirror, in a dramatic scene from Days of Wine and Roses. Dinah Shore singing beside Jack Lemmon, who plays piano, on the set of The Dinah Shore Show in 1962, with a microphone overhead and star decorations in the background. Lobby card for The China Syndrome (1979) showing Jack Lemmon speaking into a microphone held by Jane Fonda, with Michael Douglas standing between them and a film camera behind.
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Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema).
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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
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Joe Baltake, Jack Lemmon: His Films and Career (1986).

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Article History

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Modified link of Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - Jack Lemmon. Nov 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 04, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - The Secret Musical Life Of Jack Lemmon. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS News - In Memoriam: Actor Jack Lemmon. May 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Television Academy Foundation - The Interviews - Jack Lemmon. Sep 17, 2024
Add new Web site: American Film Institute - Jack Lemmon. Aug 01, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 21, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI - Sight and Sound - Jack Lemmon, the odd man out. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Jack Lemmon Profile. Oct 04, 2022
Add new Web site: Golden Globes - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Feb 14, 2020
Article revised and updated. Oct 14, 2019
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Jack Lemmon, dark and comic actor, dies at 76. Mar 07, 2017
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Apr 01, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Apr 01, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Apr 01, 2014
Added photographs. Jan 18, 2012
Add new Web site: Starpulse - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Aug 08, 2010
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Jack Lemmon. Aug 08, 2010
Media added. May 12, 2008
Article revised. Nov 02, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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