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flown long before. Lee had sought the
key female role when Preminger first
cast the production. While Otto wanted
a big name at the time, he was suffi
ciently impressed to offer Lee a minor
part. She haughtily refused it as "too
small." Preminger was taken aback
that any starlet would consider a role
under his direction as small.
At Ishpeming, the next threat of a
flareup came when Otto attempted to
capitalize on Lee's statuesque figure
and provocative appeal as publicity
fodder. He told newsmen that although
Rita Hayworth, Gina Lollobrigida, and
many other breath-taking stars would
have liked the role, it was given to Lee
"because her sex appeal sold me."
Otto may have meant to be flatter
ing, but he couldn't have picked a more
touchy subject. Lee considers herself an
actress, not a sex symbol. She's fre
quently complained that "boys have
been pestering me since I was 16." Last
year, Twentieth Century-Fox tried to
label her "America's answer to Brigitte
Bardot" and was left holding a handful
of wrap-around towels without any
body to fill them.
Lee told Preminger what she had
told Twentieth Century-Fox: "If my
reputation is built on sex appeal, no
one will take me seriously as an actress.
I want a normal, respectable life for
my husband and child. No cheesecake."
There was none, either. Just a little
increased tension. Preminger held back
with visible effort, and as the day's
shooting closed, Lee sauntered over,
smiling. "Otto," she said, "you were a
good fellow today. You hardly yelled
at anybody."
' Preminger's assistants gulped. Their
boss doesn't like to be treated in such
cavalier fashion. Lee simply turned on
her heel and walked away with a casual
ness that left him uncharacteristically
speechless.
In effect, the two had tacitly made
an armistice, and the following three
months of work passed without inci
dent, a triumph for Miss Remick and
almost a new experience for Preminger.
Toward the final days, he was even
purring sweetly to his starlet, happy to
find a talented youngster who could
meet him on his own ground.
Those who have followed Lee Rem
ick's career aren't surprised that she
handled Preminger so skillfully. They
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Lee's matter-of-fact professionalism
is hard won. Daughter of a well-to-do
department store owner In Quincy,
Mass., she was educated In private
schools and originally hoped to become
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a ballerina. At 16 she was dancing in a
stock company on Cape Cod when an
actress with a minor role fell ill. Lee
stepped in and was promptly bitten by
the acting bug.
Unlike many youngsters, Lee with
her natural talent had luck in getting
the jobs necessary for experience. She
toured with Rudy Vallee, Art Carney,
and Jackie Cooper. She appeared in
musicals in Chicago and Dallas, and at
17 was signed for a Broadway play.
"Be Your Age" folded after three
days, and her next Broadway venture
never even made it from the out-of-town
tryouts. Lee's toughness was
severely tried during these failures but
pulled her through.
With her mother, who took up radio
acting during World War II, Lee
settled in New York and attended
classes at Barnard College because it
was close to the TV studios. She also
made a concession to showmanship by
occupying Marilyn Monroe's former
apartment. With typical Remick humor,
she explained to visitors: "You know
the girl. She married Arthur Miller."
In a short time, Lee had won so many
TV roles she had to give up the idea
of winning a degree, too. It was a tele
vision appearance that prompted Elia
Kazan to cast her as the 15-year-old
drum majorette in "A Face in the
Crowd." Lee learned a lot about acting
from Kazan and, possibly, how to get
along with a demanding director.
Next followed a not-too-successful
portrayal of a Southern belle in "Long
Hot Summer" and a role in "These
Thousand Hills," which . Lee doesn't
care to speak about.
In private life, Lee has been the wife
of TV director Bill Colleran for two
years. Their daughter, Kate, was born
last January. The couple's marriage
credo is: "Be normal." This evidently
means living within a budget, some
thing foreign to both. The last triumph
I heard about was that they'd saved
60 cents on candles for a dinner party
which must have cost them at least
$100. And they were blithely ignoring
the $1,100 couches they "picked up"
for their New York apartment!
Colleran is a husband justly proud of
his wife's magnetism and proportions
but, like most husbands, he doesn't con
sider them national institutions. When
they were married, Bill became vio
lently angry at newsmen who printed
her measurements as part of the wed
ding announcement.
His concern on (his subject may be
short-lived unless Lee controls her ap
petite for sweets. In the three days I
was interviewing her, she consumed
nearly two pounds and admits having
to hide candy from her husband, who's
afraid she'll balloon nature's generous
gifts. On a trip to Europe, for example,
she sneaked into the bathroom at night
to gulp down sweets while her husband
was sleeping. The rattle of a candy-liar
wrapper eventually woke him and put
Lee back on the noncaloric wagon.
So far, however, Lee still shapes up
well, as audiences will see in "Anat
omy of a Murder." Nobody doubts
they'll like Lee Remick as a woman.
But as an actress? Well, when movie
goers answer that, Otto Preminger will
know whether his $3-million gamble
was really worth his Machiavellian
maneuverings and painful self-restraint.
Family Weekly. July II. 15
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