Remembering Lee Remick

26. Both did the obligatory bare-backed scenes in movies of the 60's.

Lee in 1968's The Detective

Liz in 1963's Johnny Cool

27. Both were good friends of the Kennedy’s.

28. Both loved acting, but neither cared about being a "STAR."

Lee - "I love to work, but I'm not really interested in superstardom."

Liz - "I just never had the desire to be a star."

29. Both Lee and Liz were shy.

Lee - "I wish I were more of an extrovert and less shy."

Liz - "I'm very shy. I can walk into a room full of people and want to shrivel up and blow away somewhere."

30. Both disliked giving interviews.

Lee - "As I'm being interviewed, I'm nervous, anxious...I'm not very good at talking to strangers."

Liz - "Giving interviews scares me to death. You have no idea how panic stricken I am."
31. Both placed their family's first and career's second.

Lee - "You make the best of a strange way of life and always put your family first."

Liz - "Being together and raising our family comes first."

38. Both were "torn between two lovers."

Lee - Torn Between Two Lovers - 1979

Liz - The Rules of Marriage - 1982

39. A 1980 newspaper article stated that “Lee Remick, along with Elizabeth Montgomery, commands one of the highest salaries for TV movies.”

40. Both of their father’s died in the 80’s while in their 70’s.

Lee - Frank Remick died in 1983 at the age of 73

Liz - Robert Montgomery died in 1981 at the age of 77

35. Both had similar philosophies of life.

Lee - “I consider myself a lucky lady. I have a fellow who loves me, children who love me. Best of all, I have my health.”

Liz - “This is the best possible life – to be in love, to have children, and then, to be able to do something you really want to do – like Bewitched.”

32. Both were nominated for Emmy's but never won.

Lee - 7 times

Liz - 9 times

33. Both preferred spending their vacations at home.

Lee - “Our idea of a vacation is to stay at home and enjoy it.”

Liz - “The best place for a vacation is home.”

34. Both preferred home-life to night-life.

Lee - “She’s a homebody whose idea of a hot time is lazing in front of an open fire.”

Liz - “I had a chance to live the ‘jet set’ life and found it boring, so I turned my back on it.”

46. Daughters of Lee and Liz nursed them through their last days.

Lee - “My mother was in agonizing pain, but didn’t want to live like a sick woman. She insisted on getting dressed and made up every day. Sometimes it would take me 1½ hours to dress her. But it made her so happy!”

Liz - “Rebecca was the one most often at her mother’s bedside, comforting her between periods of fitful sleep.”

44. Both received Hollywood Walk of Fame stars.

Lee - April 29, 1991

Liz - June 19, 2003, the Walk of Fame committee announced that Elizabeth would receive a star posthumously

45. Both died at a relatively young age as a result of cancer.

Lee of kidney/lung cancer in 1991 at age 55

Liz of colon cancer in 1995 at age 62

42. Both played murderous mothers in biopics.

Lee in Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder - 1987

Liz in Sins of the Mother - 1991 and Black Widow Murders - 1993

43. Both performed in the stage production of Love Letters near the end of their careers.

Lee with Tom Skerrit - 1990

Liz with Robert Foxworth - 1989

36. Both were nominated for the Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series award during the 1977-1978 Emmy Awards. Neither won, with the award going to Meryl Streep.

Lee - for her performance as Erica Trenton in Wheels
Liz - for her performance as Sayward Luckett in The Awakening Land

37. Both played "killer nurses."

Lee - Telefon - 1977

Liz - Amos - 1985

41. Both had loving 20-year relationships with their significant others.

Lee with Kip Gowans

Liz with Robert Foxworth