Blake Edwards dark psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. It has been described as "perhaps the most unsparing tract against drink that Hollywood has yet produced, more pessimistic than Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend"". The film gave another major boost to Edwards's reputation as an important director. "Darling Lili" star Julie Andrews married Edwards in 1969. While a few critics such as George Morris thought the film a major picture ("it synthesizes every major Edwards theme: the disappearance of gallantry and honor, the tension between appearances and reality, and the
Francis Blake (telephone) microphone was standard with the Bell company for many years. Blake worked on the United States Coast Survey from his teenage years through early adulthood (1866-1878). He was a physicist and an amateur photographer. In 1874 Blake married Elizabeth Livermore Hubbard (1849-1941) whose father provided land in Weston on which Blake designed and built an elaborate house in which Blake conducted his electrical experiments. They had two children: Agnes (Blake) Fitzgerald (b. 1876) and Benjamin Sewall Blake (b. 1877). Blake was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1900. Francis Blake (telephone) Francis Blake, Jr. (1850 – 1913)