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
Joan Shawlee known for small parts in Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder films. She is probably best remembered for her role as "Sweet Sue" in "Some Like It Hot" (1959) starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis, as well as Lemmon. She appeared as "Sylvia" in "The Apartment" (1960), and as "Amazon Annie" in "Irma la Douce", both of which starred Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. She also appeared in Billy Wilder's final film "Buddy Buddy" (1981) starring Lemmon and Walter Matthau. She had a recurring role on TV in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" as "Pickles Sorrell", She played the lead in "The