Jack Lemmon Articles

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards, who died this past Dec. 15 at the age of 88, will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies on Monday evening with the presentation of five of Edwards' best-known efforts: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1964), Victor Victoria (1982), and Operation Petticoat (1959). Apart from The Pink [...]

Julie Andrews, Victor Victoria (top); Peter Sellers, The Pink Panther (middle); Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Days of Wine and Roses (bottom) I saw Blake Edwards at a book signing for his wife Julie Andrews at the soon-to-be defunct Borders in Westwood in the spring of 2008. I noticed Edwards looked quite frail and wondered how much longer he would be around. He died of pneumonia [...]

Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie Twelve Walter Matthau movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, Aug. 11, as part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" series. I'm no Walter Matthau fan. His on-screen grumpiness has always left me feeling grumpy myself. For that reason, Matthau vehicles have never been a priority of mine. In fact, I've only [...]

Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM's sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010 Screen Actors [...]