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
Man's Fate (film) the life of the Chinese Emperor Puyi. In 2001, U.S. filmmaker Michael Cimino announced he would create a film version of "Man's Fate", with Daniel Day-Lewis, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman and Johnny Depp in the lead roles. Cimino died in 2016, and the proposed film has not been made. Man's Fate (film) Man's Fate was an abandoned 1969 film adaptation of the novel "Man's Fate" by Andre Malraux to have been directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Following the critical and commercial success of his 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons", which won the Academy Award