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A very weak, almost unrecognizable Lee made one of her last public appearances on April 29, 1991, to receive her star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame." In the last stages of her kidney cancer, her face was extremely bloated by the chemo treatments she was receiving. Jack Lemmon, her Days of Wine and Roses (1962) co-star, was at the ceremony to lend love and support. She died two months later on July 2nd.

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1990.

Discovered she had tumors on her kidneys and lungs while filming in France in 1989. She had a remission in 1990 before the cancer returned again.

In 1988 she declared These Thousand Hills (1959) was the least favorite of her films.

Lee's second husband, British producer Kip Gowans, worked with Lee on a number of TV movies including The Women's Room (1980), and Rearview Mirror (1984).

She died only four days before her Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) co-star Thorley Walters.

After more work in TV and movies, she moved to England in 1970, making more movies there.

Although she liked the European locations for Hard Contract (1969), she thought the film didn't work and was a disaster. However, she met first assistant director and future husband Kip Gowans on the film.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1966 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Wait Until Dark."

And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses (1962).

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 25, a son Matt Colleran on June 7, 1961. Child's father is her 1st [now ex] husband, Bill Colleran.

Alcoholic Montgomery Clift's career was in decline when he was considered for Wild River (1960). Director Elia Kazan made him promise he wouldn't drink. The actor kept his word with the support of sympathetic co-stars Jo Van Fleet and Lee Remick.

She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in The Long, Hot Summer (1958).

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy Southern majorette in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).

Lee's paternal grandfather was the son of Irish immigrants. Lee's other ancestry was English (where her maternal grandmother was born, and from where many of her other ancestors had immigrated to Massachusetts in the 1600s).