1949 TO 2001 JACK LEMMON MOVIE STAR--EXHIBIT CARD & 1950'S MOVIE STAR CARD--

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NON-SPORT CARD
1949 TO 2001 MOVIE STAR
JACK LEMMON
EXHIBIT CARD
MOVIE STAR CARD
This movie star cards are from
"1949 TO 2001 EXHIBIT MOVIE STAR CARD".
This Exhibit or Arcade card was issued by the Exhibit Supply Co. of Chicago in the mid 1960’s.
John Uhler Lemmon III
(February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered equally proficient in both
dramatic
and
comic
roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class
everyman
screen persona in
dramedy
pictures,
[1]
leading
The Guardian
to coin him "the most successful tragi-comedian of his age."
[2]
He starred in over sixty films and was nominated for an
Academy Award
eight times, winning twice, and received many other accolades, including six
Golden Globe Awards
(counting the honorary
Cecil B. DeMille Award
), two
Cannes Film Festival Awards
, two
Volpi Cups
, one
Silver Bear
, three
BAFTA Awards
, and two
Emmy Awards
. In 1988, he was awarded the
American Film Institute
's
Lifetime Achievement Award
for his contributions to the American cinema.
His best known films include
Mister Roberts
(1955, for which he won the year's
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
),
Some Like It Hot
(1959),
The Apartment
(1960),
Days of Wine and Roses
(1962),
Irma la Douce
(1963),
The Great Race
(1965),
Save the Tiger
(1973, for which he won
Best Actor
),
The China Syndrome
(1979),
Missing
(1982), and
Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992). He also acted in several
Broadway
plays, earning
Tony Award
nominations for
Tribute
and the 1986 revival of
Long Day's Journey into Night
.
Lemmon had a long-running collaboration with actor and real-life friend
Walter Matthau
, which
The New York Times
called "one of Hollywood's most successful pairings,"
[3]
that spanned ten films between 1966 and 1998;
The Fortune Cookie
(1966),
The Odd Couple
(1968) and its sequel
The Odd Couple II
(1998),
The Front Page
(1974),
Buddy Buddy
(1981),
JFK
(1991),
Grumpy Old Men
(1993) and its sequel
Grumpier Old Men
(1995),
The Grass Harp
(1995), and
Out to Sea
(1997).
The card is unnumbered and is black and white. The cards are printed on heavy cardboard measuring 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" and have blank backs.
PHOTO:
NICE (SEE SCAN)
condition.
This is
JACK LEMMON
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