Talk:Jack Lemmon

message: In a career spanning five decades, Lemmon carved himself a niche as cinema's neurotic everyman, and as one of the most versatile actors of his--or any--generation. Equally at home in comedy and drama, he had a unique combination of intensity and vulnerability that could break your heart one minute, and have you doubled up with laughter the next.  Whether he was clearing his sinuses as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, or clearing his desk as the slumping salesman Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Lemmon committed himself totally to his roles.
The only word that might be able to be used in a NPOV sentence is "neurotic", though I haven't seen enough of his movies to really know... the rest is true and very nice and all, but not encyclopedic. Tokerboy —Preceding undated comment added 05:44, 8 February 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I liked the ideas expressed in the "Removed" section above and tried to rewrite the paragraph in a more suitable way and then add it back to the end of the Lemmon article.  Obviously, if others think it still does not work, they can remove it again.
     Andrew Szanton 03:01, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed

message: :: It is stated that he died on the 27 and 28 of 2001.
Which is true? :Alrasheedan —Preceding undated comment added 13:49, 28 June 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Death?

message: Error to one of the links:
The link for his TV movie titled "The Long Way Home" is not correct. 
The Wikipedia link is to a movie about WWII and Nazi. However, Jack Lemmon's TV movie, under the same name and which was made in 1998, is about a retired cabinet maker(Jack Lemmon), who travels across the USA from Kansas to California to visit his old sweetheart, Veronica (played by Betty Garrett). He travelled by hitchhiking with a young girl named Leanne Bossert (played by Sarah Paulson). I saw this movie on TV a few years ago, but it never returned to the TV screen. However, I managed to buy a copy of the DVD a few days ago, to my surprise and delight. The DVD was produced by Platinum Disc LLC, La Crosse, WI (2005).
--64.201.181.86 05:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out!  The link to The Long Way Home now points to a disambiguation page for the term "Long Way Home". The "dab" (disambiguation) page now has a reference to the 1998 made-for-TV film.  As far as I know, we do not yet have an article on the 1998 film, although I did not do an extensive search. Lini 13:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Long Way Home

message: In the article it says that Lemmon graduated from Harvard at seventeen years old. While this is certainly possible, the information seems redundant considering that in the same paragraph, further down, he is mentioned as having gone to Harvard after graduating from Phillips Academy. Because of this, I have a suspicion that he might have matriculated to Harvard at seventeen, not graduated. This has a certain further credibility as information concerning Lemmon's supposed prodigality is not sourced (after a quick Google search I failed to turn up any mention of his graduating age aside from this Wikipedia page, which is hardly a verification!), nor is it ever mentioned again.
I haven't removed the information, but its extraordinary nature requires substantiation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.22.246 (talk) 05:01, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember an interview with Lemmon in which he said he left Harvard to serve in WWII, then went back, but it was so long ago that I heard this, and memory being what it is....2001:558:6017:3D:2D5A:5B73:60FC:BF6B (talk) 18:34, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matriculated or Graduated? 

message: In Walter Matthau's Wikipedia article it states that they made together 10 movies; is that correct? Where can I find a complete list of their movies together (preferably before christmas 2007)? ;)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.155.127 (talk) 09:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ten or eleven movies with Walter Matthau?

message: Per debate and discussion re: assessment of the approximate 100 top priority articles of the project, this article has been included as a top priority article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 06:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers]] priority assessment

message: Did his mother really state that, "We didn't care that much about him and it was cheaper to push him out on the way up."? That doesn't sound like something a mother would say...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.187.128.50 (talk) 18:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother's Quote 

message: Please add Inherit the Wind a 1999 film starring Jack LemmonThe Real Stucco (talk) 19:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Inherit the Wind

message: In the Personal life section, it says: "Lemmon admitted that he was an alcoholic in the late 1960s. (Source: Los Angeles Times Obituary.)" I've tried looking up the actual source and from what I can find it's page 3 of the 29 June 2001 piece "Jack Lemmon, Everyman Star, Dies" by Greg Krikorian. That doesn't say Lemmon admitted to being an alcoholic. What it says is: "He was well-known for enjoying his martinis, though he always insisted that the stories about his drinking were exaggerated." However, in Inside The Actors Studio (season 4, episode 10; 1998-10-25) he does say about himself "I'm an alcoholic." I guess we could replace the current 'source' with a . --82.170.113.123 (talk) 15:13, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem in Personal life section 

message: He died on June 27, 2001  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 03:23, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Death 

message: He did not win Best Actor for Some Like It Hot at Cannes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.189.88 (talk) 14:52, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best Actor at Cannes  

message: This article needs a list of films the actor was in.  For example, in an interview, he mentions "Alex and the Gypsie" (I think that's what he says). Kdammers (talk) 21:41, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: See :Jack Lemmon on screen and stage. There's too much to include in this article. Schazjmd (talk) 21:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  filmography 

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thread_title: John Uhler Lemmon II 1893–1962