FRANK EDWIN REMICK
BIOGRAPHY

Frank Edwin Remick, born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1909, was the youngest of Alfred H. and Alice Cooper Remick's three children.

Remick attended Coddington School, Thayer Academy, and graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931.

While still a senior at Harvard, Remick's father, Alfred H. Remick, founder of the Remick's Department Store, died of a heart attack while working in his office.

With a year to go at Harvard, Remick tried to sell his father's store, but failed to find anyone willing to buy a store during the height of the depression. Instead, he took over the management of the business and finished his university studies at the same time.

After graduating from Harvard, Remick married Margaret Patricia Waldo of New York, and settled down with his bride in his hometown of Quincy.

Being an astute businessman, he immediately began improving his father's store and involving himself in the civic affairs of Quincy, serving as President of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, President of the Retail Merchants Bureau, President of the Quincy Trust Company and Vice President of the New England Clothiers.

It wasn't long before Remick was blessed with two children, a son, Bruce Waldo Remick in 1933, and Lee Ann Remick in 1935.

In 1943, Remick accepted an
appointment to the Division of
Industry Advisory Councils of
the War Production Board,
which required his moving
temporarily to Washington D. C.

After setting up an "Operating
Committee" to run the store in
his absence, Remick moved to
Washington D.C. to take on his new duties while his family moved to New York City where Remick's wife could enjoy working in the occasional play, radio or television show.

Once Remick returned from his year-long stint with the War Production Board, he enlisted in the Navy and spent the next two years on active duty as a lieutenant. He was assigned to the Bureau of Supply and Accounts and was initially stationed in New York.

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MARGARET WALDO REMICK PACKARD BIOGRAPHY

Margaret Patricia Waldo was born to Gertrude and Lewis Waldo in New York. She was the daughter of a contractor and granddaughter of two ministers.

“My mother came from England when very young, and her father was a minister and her mother – my grandmother – was a minister."

In 1929, Pat Waldo began her freshman year at Skidmore College majoring in drama while making her professional debut playing Nina in The Seagull at the Gloucester Summer Theater. Talent scouts saw her work and professed an interest, but Waldo finished school after transferring to Emerson College where she graduated with the class of ’32.

After graduating from Emerson, Pat married Frank E. Remick and moved to Quincy, MA where he owned and operated a department store.

In 1933 Pat worked in the theater
with the South Shore Players in
Cohasset and joined the cast of
the local Quincy Community
Players.

Nineteen-thirty three also brought
great joy with the birth of a son,
Bruce Waldo Remick, followed in
1935 with the birth of a daughter,
Lee Ann Remick.

As time went on, while Pat raised her children, she found time to work in radio and television, appearing on Kraft Television Theater, Hallmark, Armstrong Circle Theater and Robert Montgomery Presents.

During the summer months, she was a regular player at Fairhaven Summer Theater. Anthony Farrar, a producer at Fairhaven said of her, “Pat Remick is a very capable actress and undoubtedly will
accomplish great things on the stage. I have been
tremendously pleased with her work at Fairhaven and would be happy to have her return any season should she desire to play here.” She also played in summer stock in Dallas.

“My mother was absolutely wonderful on the stage," Lee Remick recalled, "but…never made a full-out whopping great career. She was mostly just our mother.”

Patricia worked with some big names during her years as an actress, touring with Gertrude Lawrence in Traveller’s Joy, working with Jean Parker in By Candlelight, with Sylvia Sidney in Kind Lady, Richard Arlen in Made In Heaven, and Gale Sondergaard in The Corn is Green.

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