FATHERS
AND DAUGHTERS
Lee Remick
Patriot Ledger
June 16, 1979
Frank Remick, of Remick Department Store in Quincy, has a reputation as a proud and devoted father, with large photographs of actress Lee Remick gracing his office walls.
When he was contacted about this article, Remick modestly said, “I really didn’t influence her that much, as far as becoming an actress went.”
Reached in London, Lee Remick responded with feeling; “Of course he’s had an influence on me! He had an enormous influence….
By always giving me encouragement, by just being a terrific father. He was always very fair, which is a significant thing for parents. He was very willing and eager to listen to both me and my brother, never with a closed mind, always eager to hear our point of view. That is what makes for a really good parent.”
Lee, whose parents were divorced when she was seven, grew up in New York, living there with her mother, an actress known as Patricia Remick. She has stayed in close touch with her father ever since she moved to England in 1970 and reflects:
“One is always the child of one’s parents, I suppose and one still calls them up, even at my ripe old age. We’re fortunate to have them to do that with, to talk to, to ask questions of.”
Asked if she recalls any particular moments growing up when she saw her father in a new way, she says, “I do recall the feeling of changing from childhood into young adulthood, when I was a teenager and I realized my parents were not just figures of discipline but people with problems of their own. It was a transitional period, one of the confusing elements of adolescence, when your dependence on them begins to alter.”
