When it comes to silver screen legends, Jack Lemmon wasn’t cool like Humphrey Bogart or James Dean – the guys everyone wanted to be. No, Lemmon wasn’t cool. He was, however, the guy everyone already was – the relatable one. He brought humanity to all of his roles in the La-La Land that was (is) Hollywood.
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While Lemmon was “the relatable one,” he did actually have a kind of talent that only a few embody. He did things, went places. He mastered the piano, served in the military, went to Harvard, and that’s not mentioning his knack for acting. He entered the Golden Age of Hollywood when it was in full flow when audiences were falling in love with the detectives, cowboys and princes – not the insurance salesman. Lemmon, like a breath of fresh air, was a representation of working-class America – the most prominent community in the country, yet the least spoken about community in cinema (at least back then).
This is an ode to Jack Lemmon and the legacy he became…