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
J. Gordon Edwards which contained a huge chariot race, four years before "Ben-Hur" (1925). He was the stepgrandfather of director Blake Edwards. J. Gordon Edwards died of pneumonia at age 58 in New York City and was interred at Kensico Cemetery in a grandiose private mausoleum with a minaret on each side similar to the Taj Mahal. J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867 – December 31, 1925) was a Canadian film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage actor and stage director. Edwards made his directorial debut on film in the 1914 film "St. Elmo". Edwards