Download or read book Jack and Walter written by Ben Costello and published by Five Star Publishing (MI). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the legendary careers of Lemmon and Matthau. From their first screen-pairing in 1966, The Fortune Cookie, to their last comical romp, 1998's The Odd Couple II, they put the "fun" in dysfunctional, cementing their positions in Hollywood history as the 20th Century's last great comedy team.
Download or read book A Twist of Lemmon written by Chris Lemmon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). First time in paperback, a very personal portrait of an actor audiences loved, written by his actor son. Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) was one of our most beloved movie stars, a two-time Academy Award winner for Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger . In A Twist of Lemmon , Chris Lemmon shares family tales, intimate father-son conversations, and anecdotes from and about his dad. Joining Chris are first-person tributes from Blake Edwards, Andy Garcia, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Neil Simon, Shirley MacLaine, and Cliff Robertson, among others.
Download or read book Jack Lemmon written by Joe Baltake and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Films of Jack Lemmon written by Joe Baltake and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Thought We Were Making Movies Not History written by Walter Mirisch and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood’s true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch’s company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to 87 Academy Award nominations and 28 Oscars. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirisch’s own experience of Hollywood and tells the stories of the stars—emerging and established—who appeared in his films, including Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood’s most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirisch’s legacy—as Elmore Leonard puts it—as “one of the good guys.” Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association
Download or read book Team Work written by Lachlan F. Hazelton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hollywood s Odd Couple written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes the actors'' quotes *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality...''The Odd Couple'' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that." - Walter Matthau "It''s hard enough to write a good drama, it''s much harder to write a good comedy, and it''s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." - Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are probably best remembered for their films together, but both were clearly established actors in Hollywood by the time they appeared in their first film together. The great film director Billy Wilder once noted of Jack Lemmon that Lemmon "was my everyman", and Lemmon did indeed represent a great everyman to American audiences during the latter half of the 20th century. For rich, poor, and working class audiences alike, Lemmon was an accessible leading male, someone certainly less stately than Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier and seemingly more approachable even than archetypal leading men such as Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda. Viewers may not have known Lemmon on a personal level, yet his easygoing demeanor made it easy for the American public to feel as if they knew Lemmon. His wide appeal is summarized nicely by Richard T. Stanley, who noted that he "had the personality and versatile talent to star in any era," and Lemmon became intimately associated with other famous figures of Hollywood, including Billy Wilder and Matthau. Before his movies with Lemmon, Matthau most often played shady criminals in dramatic films, and his character in Elia Kazan''s A Face in the Crowd (1957) offers one of the best examples. Matthau''s major breakthrough did not occur until 1965, when he starred in the stage production of The Odd Couple, which was later adapted into the film that might be the duo''s best known movie together. In several of their movies, viewers witness all of the core elements of the Lemmon-Matthau dynamic. Lemmon plays the straight man to Matthau''s shadier, conniving character, and a sharp contrast exists between the two: Lemmon is relatively short and conventionally handsome, while Matthau is far taller and appears far more clownish, and the contrast would grow starker as they aged and Matthau became rather stocky. Even though Lemmon is invariably tempted by Matthau''s schemes, he denounces them at the conclusion but doesn''t reject or condemn Matthau as a person. A romantic plot often develops between leading ladies and the two actors, but the chief relationship is usually between Lemmon and Matthau, whose comedic value as a team is greater than the sum of its parts. It is all the more noteworthy that while Lemmon and Matthau are often mentioned in the pantheon of legendary male comedy teams, they were not natural comics in the manner of Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello. Instead, they became great comics when acting alongside their comic foil, and while it is Matthau who took primacy in The Fortune Cookie (he did win an Academy Award, after all), in The Odd Couple, Saul Austerlitz argues that the opposite occurs in the subsequent movie: "Matthau has the showier role as gruff, sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison, but Lemmon steals the show as the prim...Felix Unger." In an act of homage toward their legendary partnership, Lemmon was buried near Matthau, who died about a year before Lemmon, and upon Matthau''s death, Lemmon stated, "I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we''ll ever see." Lemmon may have put it even more aptly when he said, "Death ends a life, not a relationship." Hollywood''s Odd Couple chronicles the lives, careers, and partnership between the two actors. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about Lemmon and Matthau like never before.
Download or read book Call Me Bud written by Nick Fuller and published by Authors Online Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Lemmon is known to audiences the world over for his roles in classic comedies of the 50s and 60s such as 'Some Like It Hot', 'Mr Roberts', 'The Apartment' and 'The Odd Couple'. But, in a film career that spanned over 45 years, he also excelled in ground breaking dramatic roles that sometimes riled Governments and raised social issues in every decade through to the 90s. For the first time, Call Me Bud examines this amazing career in film from his arrival in Hollywood fresh from the pioneering days of TV right through to his last appearances as the 21st century dawned. Along the way, the story takes in legendary Directors from George Cukor and Billy Wilder to Robert Altman, and writers from Garson Kanin through Neil Simon to David Mamet. Amidst all the Oscars and Emmy's too, there's time to look at the man's crucial ethos on acting, his unselfish support of those starting out in the business and the impact he had on so many other fine actors from Walter Matthau to Kevin Spacey. Often known as 'America's Everyman' for his approachability, the truth is that Jack Lemmon was an extraordinary man and actor. Over the course of almost 70 films, Call Me Bud shows just why.
Download or read book A Twist of Lemmon written by Chris Lemmon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the life of American actor Jack Lemmon as a husband and father, as told by his son, Chris Lemmon.
Download or read book Some Like It Cool written by Michael Freedland and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Jack Lemmon's career as well as his private life, Michael Freedland reveals Lemmon's turbulent relationship with his alcoholic mother, his broken first marriage, Jack's own alcoholism, his facelift and his tragic fight with cancer.
Download or read book Jack and Walter written by Ben Costello and published by Book Street Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack & Walter traces the legendary careers of Lemmon and Matthau. From their first screen-pairing in 1966, The Fortune Cookie, to their last comical romp, 1998's The Odd Couple II, they put the fun in dysfunctional, cementing their positions in Hollywood history as the 20th Century's last great comedy team.
Download or read book My Lunches with Orson written by Henry Jaglom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Films of Jack Lemmon written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Odd Couple written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1966 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment.
Download or read book Bell Book and Candle written by John Van Druten and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1951 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly becaus
Download or read book Some Like it Hot written by Marc Shaiman and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript, dated 03/18/2023. Marked heavily throughout with colored pens. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on April 13, 2023, when videotaping the stage production at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y. The production opened on December 11, 2022, and was directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.
Download or read book Conversations with Wilder written by Cameron Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.
