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
Robert Blake, Baron Blake the "Dictionary of National Biography", a Trustee of the British Museum, and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. He was High Bailiff and Searcher of the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey between 1988 and 1989, and High Steward of Westminster Abbey from 1989 to 1999. Blake was a Director of Channel 4 Television. Portraits of Lord Blake hang at The Queen's College, Oxford and at Rhodes House, Oxford. Blake married Patricia Mary Waters (1925–1995), the daughter of a Norfolk farmer, on 22 August 1953. They had three daughters. Robert Blake, Baron Blake Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake, (23