Chill Wills cuts up with Phil Harris, James Garner and Lee.
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REMEMBERING LEE REMICK
WHEELER DEALERS
[Wheeler Dealers] "was almost funny enough. James Garner and I were the poor man's Rock Hudson and Doris Day."
- Lee Remick
"Hilarious dialogue and good direction...it will establish Lee Remick as a Doris Day."
Hollywood Reporter - September 23, 1963
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"Full of hard-breathing sight gags... Norman Norell designed Miss Remick's wardrobe, but God gave her those astonishingly blue eyes."
The New Yorker - November 23, 1963

BACKSTORY

In 1963, Lee starred in her first comedy, The Wheeler Dealers, with
James Garner. Lee played a Wall Street analyst and Garner
played a Texas oil tycoon.

Garner, a man who loves to play practical jokes, conned Lee into
doing a six second television advertisement for the movie. "It'll be
good for laughs," Garner urged.

Lee was told that she and Garner would do a blurb about coming
into an oil well, without realizing that a half-gallon pail of thick,
gooey black oil had been rigged above them.

 

At the signal, the pure, black gold doused both of them and
everyone had a good laugh.

However, when Garner was asked who got the last laugh,
he said, "She [Lee] did. Next day I received a bill from her
hairdresser for fifty bucks."