LEE
REMICK
WANTS OUT OF SOUTHLAND
by Henderson Cleaves
New York World Telegram
February 18, 1961
Sexpot?
Not at all, says Lee Remick. Why, people don’t even recognize her on the street.
“I suppose I don’t look the same in real life,” she said recently. “People rarely bother me on the street.”
Miss Remick, who looked very chic in a conservative suit and cloth hat, has spent a good deal of her cinematic time in slacks, slips, peignoirs, soft sweaters and similar garments. The picture of her in slacks and sweater for Anatomy of a Murder became almost a trademark. “It got a little sickening,” she says.
Her newest exposure comes in Sanctuary, the film based on two William Faulkner novels, Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun that opens Tuesday at the Paramount and the Trans-Lux 85th St. theaters.
She plays the famous Temple Drake, a role that furnishes ample further opportunity for lounging around in her lingerie.
Co-starring are Bradford Dillman and Yves Montand with folk singer Odetta cast as Nancy, the maid who murder’s Temple’s child.
Temple is the daughter of a Mississippi governor and she has been a very bad girl and suffered a lot, too. Miss Remick, an old Faulkner fan, says this is her last Southern role for a while.
“I have made six films and played a southerner in four of them. That is the one thing I don’t want to do any more,” the Boston-born girl declared. “I love acting and would like to go on Broadway. It’s hard enough to find a good movie script. But with plays it’s murder. I have read myself blind trying to find a play. I would also love to do a comedy.”
The actress started studying ballet when she was 8, attended private school here and put in some time at Barnard before acting and dancing began to take up too much time. She is married to TV director William Colleran, is the mother of one child and expecting another one.
She played Southern girls in A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot Summer, Wild River, and now Sanctuary. Her other films, These Thousand HIlls and Anatomy were laid out west and in Michigan, respectively. Her next will be the screen version of J.P. Miller’s TV drama, The Days of Wine and Roses with Jack Lemmon.
The only picture she doesn’t think as so good was the western.
“One
out of six, that’s not a bad average,” she feels.
