The Great Race won the film an Oscar. In his Top 10 Favorite Comedies video, Doug Walker cited Jack Lemmon's performance as Professor Fate as a major influence for his "Nostalgia Critic" internet persona. The Great Race The Great Race is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost US$12 million (equivalent to $ million in ),
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