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
Whitney Blake Baxter's Books, which closed in 1998. Her daughter, Meredith, became an actress, starring in the 1980s hit sitcom "Family Ties". In 1957, Blake married talent agent Jack X Fields; they divorced in 1967. R&B and Pop singer, Whitney Houston was named after Blake. From August 24, 1968, until her death in 2002, she was married to writer/collaborator Allan Manings (1924–2010). According to the book "Untied", by Blake's daughter, Meredith Baxter, on Blake's 76th birthday, Blake's children took Manings and her to dinner. Later that evening, Blake revealed that she had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. She expressed confidence that she