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
My Sister Eileen (1955 film) My Sister Eileen (1955 film) My Sister Eileen is a 1955 American CinemaScope musical comedy film directed by Richard Quine. It stars Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Jack Lemmon. The screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards is based on the 1940 play by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in "The New Yorker". The play originally was filmed in 1942. (This musical film is totally different from the 1953 Broadway musical "Wonderful Town", though both are based on the original Ruth McKenney source material.) Witty