Jack Lemmon

biography: 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.

Inside the Actors Studio

overview: James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.

original_name: Inside the Actors Studio

original_language: en

The Simpsons

overview: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

character: Frank Ormand (voice)

original_name: The Simpsons

Un film et son époque

original_name: Un film et son époque

original_language: fr

Studio One

overview: An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

character: Fred Stevens

original_name: Studio One

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

character: Alfred Fishkettle

original_name: Lux Video Theatre

The Philco Television Playhouse

overview: The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

original_name: The Philco Television Playhouse

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

overview: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

original_name: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Suspense

overview: An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

original_name: Suspense

Robert Montgomery Presents

overview: Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

original_name: Robert Montgomery Presents

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

overview: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.

character: Cass Kendall

original_name: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

name: The American Film Institute Salute to ...

overview: In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.

original_name: The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Steve Allen Show

character: Self - Pianist

original_name: The Steve Allen Show

The Hollywood Greats

overview: Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.

original_name: The Hollywood Greats

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

The Kennedy Center Honors

overview: The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

original_name: The Kennedy Center Honors

Heaven for Betsy

overview: A newly married couple adjusts to life together as an ambitious department store employee repeatedly lands himself in trouble, leaving his practical wife to help him navigate the challenges of work and marriage.

character: Peter Bell

original_name: Heaven for Betsy

Alcoa Theatre

overview:
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre.

In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.

character: Ashley

original_name: Alcoa Theatre

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

overview: The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

original_name: The Mike Douglas Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

The Murder of Mary Phagan

overview: In early-twentieth-century Atlanta, the murder of a young girl prompts strong reactions from the community and ultimately leads to the arrest of a man who could actually be innocent.

character: Gov. John Slaton

original_name: The Murder of Mary Phagan

Flick Flack

overview: Flick Flack was a Canadian television series broadcast by Global Television Network in 1974. The series featured interviews with motion picture industry personalities combined with excerpts from films. William Shatner was the regular series host. "It was a TV show produced for Canadian TV. A handful of shows that aired every fortnight for a few months in the 70’s." @WilliamShatner · Sep 15, 2020

original_name: Flick Flack

V.I.P. Schaukel

overview: V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

original_name: V.I.P. Schaukel

original_language: de

Studio One

character: Charlie Bemis

Scene by Scene

overview: Mark Cousins invites film actors and directors to watch major scenes in their career to date, and to talk us through them.

original_name: Scene by Scene

Great Performances

overview: The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

original_name: Great Performances

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

overview: A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

original_name: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

overview:
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night.

During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

original_name: Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Dick Cavett Show

overview: The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: The Dick Cavett Show

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

original_name: What's My Line?

character: Self - Mystery Guest

The Max Headroom Show

overview: The Max Headroom Show started life in the UK in 1985. The show featured actor Matt Frewer playing the role as computer-generated talk-show host Max Headroom.

original_name: The Max Headroom Show

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

overview: Tom and Dick Smothers return to TV in this revival of the traditional variety show, mixing comedy skits, stand-up routines and musical numbers. Joining the Smothers each week were a number of aspiring young talents and veteran performers.

original_name: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Armstrong Circle Theatre

overview: Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour.

original_name: Armstrong Circle Theatre

Film '72

overview: The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

original_name: Film '72

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

character: Self - Nominee / Presenter

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

overview: An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

The Red Skelton Show

overview: The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

Tony Awards

overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Deutsch

biography:
John Uhler Lemmon III war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Lemmon wurde als Komödiant in Billy Wilders Filmen Manche mögen’s heiß und Das Appartement bekannt und bildete mit Walter Matthau jahrzehntelang eines der beliebtesten Komikerduos. Er wurde aber auch zweimal als Charakterdarsteller mit dem Oscar ausgezeichnet. Lemmon zählt heute zu den renommiertesten und meistausgezeichneten Filmschauspielern überhaupt. Neben seiner Karriere als Schauspieler bemühte er sich einige Jahre auch als Musiker.

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Pусский

Джек Леммон

biography:
Американский актёр.

Настоящее имя — Джон Улер Леммон III.

Джек Леммон — один из немногих голливудских актёров с гарвардским дипломом. Он обратил на себя внимание ещё в университете, по окончании которого служил на флоте в последние месяцы Второй мировой войны. В молодости много работал на радио и телевидении.

Дебютировал в большом кино в 1954 году в картине «Это должно случиться с вами». Снимался в таких фильмах как «В джазе только девушки», «Большие гонки», «Аэропорт 77», «Китайский синдром», «12 разгневанных мужчин», «Легенда Багера Ванса».

Сыграв почти в 100 полнометражных и телефильмах, Леммон стал одним из самых популярных актёров США, где его даже называли «божественным клоуном». Актёр восемь раз номинировался на «Оскар» и впервые в истории получил эту премию в обеих актёрских номинациях — за главную роль (1973) и за роль второго плана (1955). Жюри Каннского кинофестиваля дважды признавало его лучшим актёром — в 1979 и 1982 годах.

Джек Леммон скончался от рака мочевого пузыря 27 июня 2001 года в одном из госпиталей Лос-Анджелеса.

Português

biography: John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (Newton, 8 de fevereiro de 1925 — Los Angeles, 27 de junho de 2001), mais conhecido como Jack Lemmon, foi um ator e músico estadunidense. Considerado uma das maiores lendas do cinema estadunidense, Lemmon ganhou 2 Oscars e é um dos três recordistas ao Prémio Cannes. Iniciou a carreira no cinema com o filme Demônio de mulher, em 1954. Com Mister Roberts, em 1955, ganhou seu primeiro prémio, o Óscar de Melhor Ator (coadjuvante/secundário). Com o diretor Richard Quine fez cinco filmes: Jejum de amor (1955), O baile maluco" (1957), Sortilégio do amor (1958), A viuvinha indomável (1959).

Français

biography:
Jack Lemmon est un acteur et réalisateur américain, né le 8 février 1925 à Newton (Massachusetts) et mort le 27 juin 2001 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Avec Marcello Mastroianni et Dean Stockwell, il est un des trois seuls acteurs ayant obtenu à deux reprises le prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes (en 1979 et 1982).

Jack Lemmon est le fils unique de Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) et John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., président d'une société de donuts. Sa grand-mère paternelle était issue d'une famille d'immigrants irlandais.

Après une enfance dans le Massachusetts et un passage à la Phillips Academy puis à l'université Harvard, Jack Lemmon s'engage dans l'US Navy durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Dès son retour aux États-Unis après-guerre, Jack Lemmon devient un acteur populaire, spécialisé dans la comédie. Il est surtout connu en France pour ses collaborations avec Billy Wilder, qui lui offre le fameux rôle du musicien travesti aux côtés de Tony Curtis et de Marilyn Monroe dans Certains l'aiment chaud en 1959, ou encore celui de l'employé falot amoureux de Shirley MacLaine dans La Garçonnière en 1960.

Jack Lemmon a obtenu deux Oscars: celui du meilleur second rôle en 1956 pour Permission jusqu'à l'aube de John Ford et celui du meilleur acteur en 1974 pour Sauvez le tigre de John G. Avildsen.

Il est aussi connu pour son duo avec Walter Matthau avec lequel il a tourné dix films.

Distingué et éclectique (il joua au piano un thème du film Irma la Douce, qu'il avait tourné avec Shirley MacLaine), l'acteur a aussi privilégié un cinéma indépendant, engagé et militant comme en témoignent les deux films qui lui ont valu le prix d'interprétation masculine au Festival de Cannes (seul acteur avec Marcello Mastroianni et Dean Stockwell à avoir réussi le doublé): Le Syndrome chinois de James Bridges (1979) et Missing de Costa-Gavras (1982).

Il est avec Julianne Moore, Sean Penn et Juliette Binoche l'un des quatre artistes à avoir réussi le «grand chelem», à savoir obtenir le prix d'interprétation des trois plus grands festivals de cinéma au monde que sont le Festival de Cannes, la Mostra de Venise et la Berlinale.

C'est lui qui remet à Charlie Chaplin son Oscar d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière, en 1972.

Après avoir été marié entre 1950 et 1956 à Cynthia Stone, avec qui il a eu un fils (Chris), Jack Lemmon épouse en 1962 à Paris l'actrice Felicia Farr, avec qui il a une fille, Courtney.

Il meurt le 27 juin 2001 à Los Angeles des suites d'un cancer du côlon et de la vessie.

Source: Article "Jack Lemmon" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Deutsch

biography: John Uhler Lemmon III (* 8. Februar 1925 in Newton, Massachusetts; † 27. Juni 2001 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Lemmon wurde als Komödiant in Billy Wilders Filmen Manche mögen’s heiß und Das Appartement bekannt und bildete mit Walter Matthau jahrzehntelang eines der beliebtesten Komikerduos. Er wurde aber auch zweimal als Charakterdarsteller mit dem Oscar ausgezeichnet. Lemmon zählt heute zu den renommiertesten und meistausgezeichneten Filmschauspielern überhaupt. Neben seiner Karriere als Schauspieler bemühte er sich einige Jahre auch als Musiker.

Català

biography: John "Jack" Uhler Lemmon III (Newton, Massachusetts, 8 de febrer de 1925 - Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 27 de juny de 2001) va ser un actor de cinema estatunidenc. El seu debut cinematogràfic es produeix com a guionista de la pel·lícula "The Lady Takes a Sailor" (1949), però ja havia aparegut en uns 400 programes de televisió, entre 1948 i 1953. Com actor comença a treure el cap a les pantalles en la dècada de 1950, en col·laboració amb el director Richard Quine, amb rols secundaris poc importants. El seu primer paper com a protagonista va ser a la comèdia "It Should Happen to You" (1954). La dècada de 1960 suposarà el seu gran moment de popularitat i de reconeixement per part de la crítica. Les dècades de 1970 i 1980 inicien la maduresa interpretativa de l'actor, amb incursions en un cinema més compromès i dramàtic que abans. El 1974 va obtenir l'Oscar al millor actor per la seva interpretació a "Salveu el tigre" de John G. Avildsen (1973). El 1996 li va ser atorgat l'Os d'Or en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín pel conjunt de la seua carrera.

普通话

杰克·莱蒙

biography: 约翰·乌勒“杰克”莱蒙三世（1925 年 2 月 8 日 - 2001 年 6 月 27 日）是美国演员和音乐家。他出演了 60 多部电影，包括 Some Like It Hot、The Apartment、Mister Roberts（他因此获得了 1955 年奥斯卡最佳男配角奖）、Days of Wine and Roses、The Great Race、Irma la Douce、The Odd Couple、Save the Tiger（他因此获得了 1973 年奥斯卡最佳男主角奖）、The Out-of-Towners、 《中国综合症》、《失踪》（他因此在1982年戛纳电影节上获得了“最佳男主角”）、格伦加里·格伦·罗斯、《脾气暴躁的老人》和《脾气暴躁的老人》。

普通话

傑克·萊蒙

biography: 約翰·烏勒“傑克”萊蒙三世（1925 年 2 月 8 日 - 2001 年 6 月 27 日）是美國演員和音樂家。他出演了 60 多部電影，包括 Some Like It Hot、The Apartment、Mister Roberts（他因此獲得了 1955 年奧斯卡最佳男配角獎）、Days of Wine and Roses、The Great Race、Irma la Douce、The Odd Couple、Save the Tiger（他因此獲得了 1973 年奧斯卡最佳男主角獎）、The Out - of - Towners、 《中國綜合症》、《尋人啟弒》（他因此在 1982 年戛納電影節上獲得了“最佳男主角”）、格倫加里·格倫·羅斯、《脾氣暴躁的老人》和《脾氣暴躁的老人》。

Italiano

biography: John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (8 febbraio 1925 – 27 giugno 2001) è stato un attore e musicista americano. Ha recitato in più di 60 film tra cui Qualcuno piace caldo, L'appartamento, Mister Roberts (per il quale vinse l'Oscar come miglior attore non protagonista nel 1955), Giorni di vino e rose, La grande gara, Irma la Douce, La strana coppia, Salva la tigre (per il quale vinse l'Oscar come miglior attore nel 1973), The Out-of-Towners, La sindrome della Cina, Missing (per la quale vinse il premio di 'Miglior Attore' al Festival di Cannes del 1982), Glengarry Glen Ross, Vecchi Brontoloni e Vecchi Uomini Più Brontoloni.

Türkçe

biography:
Jack Lemmon, 8 Şubat 1925 tarihinde Newton, Massachusetts, ABD'de dünyaya gelmiştir. Harvard Üniversitesi'nde eğitim gördükten ve İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında ABD Donanması'nda görev yaptıktan sonra, oyunculuk kariyerine radyoda, Broadway'de ve televizyonun ilk yıllarında adım attı. Sinema dünyasına 1954 yapımı "It Should Happen to You" filmiyle güçlü bir giriş yapan Lemmon, sadece bir yıl sonra efsanevi yönetmen John Ford'un "Mister Roberts" (1955) filmindeki Ensign Pulver rolüyle En İyi Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu dalında ilk Akademi Ödülü'nü (Oscar) kazanarak büyük bir çıkış yakaladı.

Kariyerini asıl zirveye taşıyan ve onu Hollywood'un en sevilen "sıradan adam" (everyman) figürlerinden biri yapan şey, usta yönetmen Billy Wilder ile olan uzun soluklu işbirliği oldu. Wilder'ın yönettiği, Marilyn Monroe ve Tony Curtis ile başrolü paylaştığı unutulmaz komedi klasiği "Bazıları Sıcak Sever" (Some Like It Hot) (1959) ve Shirley MacLaine ile oynadığı En İyi Film ödüllü "Garsoniyer" (The Apartment) (1960) filmleriyle sinema tarihine geçti. Bu dönemde "Sokak Kızı İrma" (Irma la Douce) (1963) ve "Büyük Yarış" (The Great Race) (1965) gibi komedilerde de parlarken, "Gülünç ve Acı" (Days of Wine and Roses) (1962) filmindeki alkolik karakteriyle dramatik rollerdeki ustalığını da kanıtladı. 1973 yapımı "Kaplanı Kurtarmak" (Save the Tiger) filmindeki performansıyla En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Oscar'ını kazanarak, hem başrol hem de yardımcı rol kategorilerinde Oscar kazanan ilk aktör unvanını elde etti.

1970'ler ve 80'ler boyunca Lemmon, komedinin yanı sıra ciddi dramalarda da boy gösterdi. Nükleer bir felaketi konu alan "Çin Sendromu" (The China Syndrome) (1979) ve Cannes'da En İyi Erkek Oyuncu ödülü aldığı Costa-Gavras filmi "Kayıp" (Missing) (1982) gibi politik gerilimlerde güçlü performanslar sergiledi. Kariyeri boyunca en unutulmaz ortaklıklarından birini ise Walter Matthau ile kurdu; ikili "Garip İkili" (The Odd Couple) (1968), "The Front Page" (1974) ve yıllar sonra yeni bir gişe başarısı yakaladıkları "İki İnatçı İhtiyar" (Grumpy Old Men) (1993) ile devam filmi "Daha İnatçı İhtiyarlar" (Grumpier Old Men) (1995) dahil olmak üzere toplam 10 filmde birlikte rol aldı.

İlerleyen yıllarda "Amerikalılar" (Glengarry Glen Ross) (1992) filmindeki çaresiz emlakçı rolüyle eleştirmenlerden tam not alan ve "Tuesdays with Morrie" (1999) televizyon filmiyle Emmy Ödülü kazanan usta aktör, neslinin en yetenekli ve çok yönlü oyuncularından biri olarak kabul edilir. Jack Lemmon, 27 Haziran 2001 tarihinde mesane kanseri komplikasyonları nedeniyle 76 yaşında hayatını kaybetmiştir.

also_known_as:
John "Jack" Lemmon
John Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III

title: Some Like It Hot

overview: In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

title: The Apartment

overview: Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

title: Gregory Peck: His Own Man

overview: Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to become a famous leading man. Unfashionably modest, Peck describes his fascinating journey from early theater roles, through his first films, to Hollywood’s elder statesman.

title: The Front Page

overview: Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.

title: The China Syndrome

overview: While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

title: Debonair Dancers

overview: Debonair Dancers is a 1986 short American documentary film produced and directed by Alison Nigh-Strelich, and narrated by Jack Lemmon. It is about The Debonaire Special Dancers of Bakersfield, CA, a group started decades ago by John Soiu and continues today under the direction of Sheri Fortino. The group fosters social and life skills while stimulating creativity and confidence in the special needs students it serves. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

title: Short Cuts

overview: Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

title: Good Neighbor Sam

overview: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.

title: JFK

overview: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

title: Hamlet

overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

title: The Fortune Cookie

overview: TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.

title: Bell, Book and Candle

overview: Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love spell on him, only to face unexpected complications when genuine feelings emerge, threatening her supernatural abilities.

title: Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon

overview: Documentary on Jack Lemmon featuring interviews with those who knew him and worked with him.

title: Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon

title: Inside 'The Apartment'

overview: A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."

title: Irma la Douce

overview: When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.

title: The Player

overview: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

title: The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

overview: Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."

original_title: The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

title: The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

title: It Should Happen to You

overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

title: The Out-of-Towners

overview: A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.

title: Dad

overview: A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

title: The Odd Couple

overview: In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

title: Grumpy Old Men

overview: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

title: The Great Race

overview: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

title: Airport '77

overview: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

title: 12 Angry Men

overview: During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

title: Days of Wine and Roses

overview: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

title: Getting Away with Murder

overview: When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.

title: Glengarry Glen Ross

overview: Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

title: The Odd Couple II

overview: Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.

title: How to Murder Your Wife

overview: Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

title: Tuesdays with Morrie

overview: A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.

title: It Happened to Jane

overview: Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".

title: Buddy Buddy

overview: During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.

title: Macaroni

overview: A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

title: Operation Mad Ball

overview: In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

title: My Sister Eileen

overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.

title: Missing

overview: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

title: Grumpier Old Men

overview: A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.

title: Under the Yum Yum Tree

overview: A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

title: The Wackiest Ship in the Army

overview: Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

title: Mister Roberts

overview: Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

title: Save the Tiger

overview: A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

title: The Grass Harp

overview: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

title: Cowboy

overview: Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

title: Out to Sea

overview: Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.

title: My Fellow Americans

overview: They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.

title: The Notorious Landlady

overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

title: Phffft

overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.

title: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

overview: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

title: The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

overview: Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded and remains integral to the Jane Goodall Institute, which encourages environmental activism and stewardship among young people. In this program, the famous scientist reflects on her many years spent observing and learning about our primate cousins.

title: That's Life!

overview: A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.

title: Pepe

overview: Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

title: The April Fools

overview: Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris, Howard asks to go along too.

title: Fire Down Below

overview: Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

title: For Richer, for Poorer

overview: Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan that he hopes will inspire his son to get a job.

title: You Can't Run Away from It

overview: A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

title: On Cukor

overview: Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.

title: Inherit the Wind

overview: Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

title: Mass Appeal

overview: A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

title: Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter

overview: A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982.

title: Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

overview: Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

original_title: Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

title: The Long Way Home

overview: A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.

title: Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

overview: French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

original_title: Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder

title: Tribute

overview: A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

title: Alex & the Gypsy

overview: A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

title: The Gentleman Tramp

overview: A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

title: Luv

overview: Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has fallen out of love with his argumentative wife, Ellen. In a misguided effort to solve both of their problems, he introduces Ellen to Harry, hoping the two will fall in love.

title: The War Between Men and Women

overview: A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.

title: Long Day's Journey Into Night

overview: Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and then for free on PBS stations' American Playhouse series in May 1988), 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is Eugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family. Wealthy but unsatisfied former thespian James (Jack Lemmon) lives with his morphine-addict wife, Mary (Bethel Leslie), and their two tormented sons, Jamie (Kevin Spacey) and Edmund (Peter Gallagher). As nightfall approaches, truth and madness fight for control over a family tearing itself apart. A landmark production from theater legend Jonathan Miller, this searing drama is a bold, electrifying powerhouse you'll never forget. (Lemmon was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in Mini-Series or Made-for-TV Movie the following year.)

title: The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

overview: A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

title: The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

overview: A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."

title: The Entertainer

overview: A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.

title: Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

overview: In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There's an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies' room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn't allowed out of the kitchen. It's a family farewell.

title: Uta Hagen's Acting Class

title: The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

overview: A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

original_title: The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

title: A Weekend in the Country

overview: Six people. One weekend. The possibilities are endless when city meets country in this roundelay of old flames, new flings, and last chances.

title: Three for the Show

overview: This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.

title: Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

overview: Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.

original_title: Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler

title: The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

overview: Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches.

original_title: The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

title: Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

title: Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

overview: Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playful history of the most daring cross-sexual performances in Hollywood history, from Some Like it Hot to Big Momma's House.

title: Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

overview: Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.

title: Kotch

overview: When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road trip instead of settling in a retirement home. Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson's former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to welcome her baby into the world.

title: A Life in the Theatre

overview: A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre.

title: Christmas in Hollywood

overview: Dozens of stars--including Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Bob Hope, and more--demonstrate how the yuletide season is celebrated in the perpetually warm and sunny world of Hollywood, California.

title: Puppies for Sale

overview: A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince him not to but the boy has other ideas.

title: James Cagney: Top of the World

overview: Michael J. Fox hosts this documentary featuring film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that traces superstar James Cagney's rise to the top.

title: Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

overview: An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career.

original_title: Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

title: The Lady Takes a Sailor

overview: Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.

title: The Earth Day Special

overview: The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.

title: Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

title: Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

overview: A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

title: The Legend of Bagger Vance

overview: World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

title: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

overview: A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

title: Killer Cop

overview: In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing. This is a world where human life is sold or sacrificed for twisted ideals. A world of international terrorism. The time is now.

title: Forever Hollywood

overview: Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.

title: Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

overview: Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement was enriched by new challenges in which he exposed the vulnerability and emotion of the later years as few had dared. He reveled in his ongoing screen partnerships with directors like Billy Wilder and stars like Walter Matthau. Narrated on-camera by Jack Lemmon, this documentary includes interviews with Lemmon's son, the actor Chris Lemmon. Also appearing are such legends as Jack's life-long friend, the writer and director Billy Wilder, writer-director Garson Kanin, drama teacher Uta Hagen and actor Gregory Peck.

title: Once Too Often

overview: A soldier has a ten-day leave from his military duties. He’s an easygoing guy who rarely thinks about his sometimes reckless behavior until he tempts fate once too often.

title: The One, the Only... Groucho

overview: The One, the Only... Groucho is a documentary that celebrates the life and legacy of Groucho Marx, the legendary comedian, actor, gameshow host and master of quick wit.

title: Earth and the American Dream

overview: A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.

title: Avanti!

overview: A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.

title: Wednesday

overview: Jack Lemmon stars as a talk radio DJ who runs into some serious trouble live on the air.

overview: Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.

original_title: Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot

title: Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

overview: A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

original_title: Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

title: Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

overview: Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum.

title: Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

overview: A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

title: All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

overview: Burt Reynolds is honored by more than 100 of his fellow celebrities and co-workers.

title: Inside the Dream Factory

overview: Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.

title: Musical Comedy Tonight II

overview: A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Charity," "Finian's Rainbow," and "Lady in the Dark", among others. There is also discussion of the various creative aspects of the plays.

title: S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin

overview: A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin

title: Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

overview: This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.

title: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

overview: Commemorating the centennial of Mercer's birth, this documentary is part biography, part archive, and part recontextualization, taking Mercer's tunes and putting them in the hands of modern singers like Jamie Cullum and Dr. John to show they are still relevant today. Host Clint Eastwood also interviews artists who collaborated with Mercer or performed his songs, including composer John Williams, Blake Edwards, Andre Previn, Tony Bennett, and Julie Andrews.

title: Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

overview: Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple.

original_title: Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

title: Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

overview: Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.

title: Night of 100 Stars

overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall.  The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like.  Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J.  ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

title: Jack Benny's Bag

overview: Jack Benny's 1968 TV specials features topical references including a parody of The Graduate.

title: Altman on His Own Terms

overview: A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry with countless films examines some of his most important works, along with friends and regular collaborators.

title: The Best of Max Headroom

overview: Some of the best bits from 'The Max Headroom Show'.

title: The Real Charlie Chaplin

overview: A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

title: Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

overview: An Oscars special featuring interviews with a few of the nominees and the writer and director the year's breakout hit, The Exorcist (1973).

title: The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland

overview: Thought to be the first full-hour television adaptation of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', broadcast on the CBS Ford Theatre.

original_title: The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland

title: Chaplin

overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

title: Hollywood Invasion

title: The Mystery of Thirteen

overview: The story of William Palmer, one of the most notorious poisoners in Victorian England - or was he?

title: The Marilyn Files

overview: Documentary that discusses the case of the death of Marilyn Monroe.

title: Marilyn at the Movies

overview: Through film trailers and newsreel footage, this program pays tribute to Marilyn Monroe's silver screen legacy -- and The Misfits director John Huston goes behind the scenes to examine her tumultuous personal life.

title: Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius

overview: A look at the career of comedian Ernie Kovacs, considered a pioneer in the early days of television, and whose innovative TV show spawned the careers of many of today's comics and comedy writers.

original_title: Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius

title: Kotch

title: Avanti!

title: A Weekend in the Country

title: The War Between Men and Women

title: Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

overview: An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself.

title: Save the Tiger

title: Some Like It Hot

title: The Apartment

title: Gregory Peck: His Own Man

title: The Front Page

title: The China Syndrome

title: Debonair Dancers

title: Short Cuts

title: Good Neighbor Sam

title: JFK

title: Hamlet

title: The Fortune Cookie

title: Bell, Book and Candle

title: Inside 'The Apartment'

title: Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon

title: Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon

title: Irma la Douce

title: The Player

title: The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

title: It Should Happen to You

title: The Out-of-Towners

title: Dad

title: The Odd Couple

title: Grumpy Old Men

title: The Great Race

title: Airport '77

title: 12 Angry Men

title: Days of Wine and Roses

title: Getting Away with Murder

title: Glengarry Glen Ross

title: The Odd Couple II

title: How to Murder Your Wife

title: Tuesdays with Morrie

title: It Happened to Jane

title: Buddy Buddy

title: Macaroni

title: Operation Mad Ball

title: My Sister Eileen

title: Grumpier Old Men

title: Missing

title: Under the Yum Yum Tree

title: The Wackiest Ship in the Army

title: Mister Roberts

title: Save the Tiger

title: The Grass Harp

title: Cowboy

title: Out to Sea

title: My Fellow Americans

title: The Notorious Landlady

title: Phffft

title: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

title: The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

title: That's Life!

title: Pepe

title: The April Fools

title: Fire Down Below

title: For Richer, for Poorer

title: You Can't Run Away from It

title: On Cukor

title: Inherit the Wind

title: Mass Appeal

title: Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter

title: The Long Way Home

title: Tribute

title: Alex & the Gypsy

title: The Gentleman Tramp

title: The War Between Men and Women

title: Luv

title: Long Day's Journey Into Night

title: The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

title: The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

title: The Entertainer

title: Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

title: Uta Hagen's Acting Class

title: A Weekend in the Country

title: Three for the Show

title: Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

title: Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

title: Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

title: Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

title: Kotch

title: A Life in the Theatre

title: Christmas in Hollywood

title: Puppies for Sale

title: James Cagney: Top of the World

title: The Lady Takes a Sailor

title: The Earth Day Special

title: Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

title: Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

title: The Legend of Bagger Vance

title: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

title: Killer Cop

title: Forever Hollywood

title: Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

title: Once Too Often

title: The One, the Only... Groucho

title: Earth and the American Dream

title: Avanti!

title: Wednesday

title: Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

title: Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

title: All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

title: Inside the Dream Factory

title: Musical Comedy Tonight II

title: S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin

title: Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

title: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

title: Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

title: Night of 100 Stars

title: Jack Benny's Bag

title: Altman on His Own Terms

title: The Best of Max Headroom

title: The Real Charlie Chaplin

title: Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

title: Chaplin

title: Hollywood Invasion

title: The Mystery of Thirteen

title: The Marilyn Files

title: Marilyn at the Movies

title: Kotch

title: Avanti!

title: A Weekend in the Country

title: The War Between Men and Women

title: Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

title: Save the Tiger