Jack Lemmon ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat." The biography quotes Lemmon as saying, "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play... If my character was having a nervous breakdown, I started to have one." He enjoyed longtime working relationships with both Blake Edwards, starring in "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962), "The Great Race" (1965) and "That's Life!" (1986), and Richard Quine, starring in "My Sister Eileen", "Operation Mad Ball", "Bell, Book and Candle", "It Happened to Jane", and "How to Murder Your Wife". Quine also directed Lemmon's screen test when the
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon the remarkable hero at its heart: First Lieutenant Ashley White. The book was released in 2016, and is being made into a film by Reese Witherspoon. Lemmon gave a TED talk on the subject at TEDWomen 2015. Lemmon has written on the integration of women into combat roles, following the progress of the first co-ed class in Army Ranger School for the "Washington Post", "Foreign Policy", and "Defense One". She has reported on the challenges faced by female veterans for PBS "NewsHour", CNN and "Daily Beast". Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (born 1973) is a journalist, writer, and researcher.