A Genuine Leading Man

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

There are very few leading men in the world. I mean men who are masculine, witty, authoritative, forceful, rugged, intelligent and experienced And I’m all of these things. Me and about eight other guys.

- Walter Matthau

He went on to say Jack Lemmon was one of the eight other guys and “I can’t think of the others right now. I’ll let all the rest think I mean them.”

Source: Genuine Leading Men Are Scarce, The Dispatch, Oct 28 1966, Page 7
Photo: Michael Tighe

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Melt Into it Easily, Slowly

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

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He taught us some valuable tricks. For instance you want to sound like a woman don’t go falsetto. Just raise your tone slightly and accentuate certain words, particularly adjectives. And when you sit down, don’t just plop into a chair, melt into it easily, slowly. 

- Jack Lemmon on the advice an “expert on female impersonation” gave him for his role in Some Like it Hot

Source: Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon and The Makeup Man’s Nightmare, Reading Eagle, March 29 1959, Page 76

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