Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon’s feature debut. He plays Pete, an aspiring documentary filmmaker who chances on Judy Holliday’s character in Central Park. Holliday plays Gladys Glover, a naïve—and somewhat ditzy—former girdle model yearning for fame. Spying an open billboard in Columbus Circle, she uses her life’s savings to plaster her name on it for three months.

Jack Lemmon’s second feature re-teams him with Judy Holliday. They play a couple who divorce after eight years of marriage then can’t help crossing paths. It’s lighthearted and predictable, but fun. Seeing a mustachioed Lemmon dance the mambo with comedic gusto while Holliday matches him in vigor proved a highlight. Kim Novak plays a Monroesque ditzy blonde who takes a liking to Lemmon. Bonus points for the script treating Holliday’s position as a successful woman as matter-of-fact rather than an anomaly.

Considering all the drama involved behind the scenes, it’s amazing Mister Roberts is even watchable, let alone good.

A woman with a shady past (Rita Hayworth) comes between two smuggler buddies (Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon) in the West Indies.

A witch (Kim Novak) casts a love spell on her publisher neighbor (James Stewart).

After witnessing a mob hit, two Chicago musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band bound for Miami.

A young man (Jack Lemmon) climbs the corporate ladder by loaning out his apartment to company executives for extramarital affairs.

After four consecutive perfect—or near-perfect—films (Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and One, Two, Three), writer-director Billy Wilder finally stumbles with Irma la Douce, an overlong and cartoonish comedy drama.

Blake Edwards’s live-action cartoon features Curtis and Lemmon as rival daredevil showmen competing in a car race from New York to Paris.

Jack Lemmon plays a TV cameraman knocked unconscious while filming a Cleveland Browns game. He’s unhurt, but his shyster brother-in-law, played by Walter Matthau, sues everyone involved.

Avanti shouldn’t work.

The Front Page is yet another adaptation of the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the most famous of which was probably Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday. This Billy Wilder-directed adaptation features Walter Matthau in the Cary Grant role and Jack Lemmon in the Rosalind Russell role.