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
Jack Lemmon actor was signed by Columbia. Lemmon's singing voice was first heard on two film soundtracks in 1955, "Three for the Show" with Betty Grable and "My Sister Eileen". He also performed songs in the 1956 film "You Can't Run Away from It" with Stubby Kaye and June Allyson. His first solo album, "A Twist of Lemmon", was released in 1958 on Epic Records. While filming "Some Like It Hot" with Marilyn Monroe in 1959, Lemmon released a second album, "Some Like It Hot". Both featured Lemmon's singing and piano solos. The two Epic albums were later released as "A Twist