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
Twist of Fate (film) . . Rumours were rife about Roger's temperament and Rilla's dissatisfaction with the size of his role in comparison to Jacques Bergerac, who was Roger's husband at the time. Ten days into production Rilla left the film and was replaced by Stanley Baker. Bergerac and Rogers met in France, and she was responsible for his casting. "TV Guide" rated the film 2/4 stars and wrote that Rogers was too old to play the lead character. The film did poorly at the box office. Twist of Fate (film) Twist of Fate, also known as Beautiful Stranger, is a 1954 British and