What's my Line? Jack Lemmon

What's my Line? Jack Lemmon

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[DerAdventurer]

One of the greatest artists of the United States.

Directly from Golden Age Hollywood.

[lua03]

I love Mr. Lemmon!! =~D

[JoLeana76]

Jack Lemmon was great! I loved the kind of people he played in his movies (the jittery, nervous, hypochondriac, worry body). He does it great! Was he like that in his private life too?

[Onlymusical]

@Richard40171 You might be right, come to think of it. Where's his accent from? He definitely always spoke in the same voice right from the beginning of his career. He was born and raised in New York City and it's basically a NYC accent, of course, but perhaps you're right that you don't hear voices precisely like it. I'll have to start listening more closely and see. Lemmon and Falk were 2 of the best actors, Shatner was the worst.

[Richard40171]

@Onlymusical As I just posted in reply to another's comment, I'm a native New Jerseyite and commuted to (virtually lived in) New York for about 30 years & I can say I never heard people speak like Falk (more like Dusty Hoffmann: "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"). But u may have heard differently.

[Richard40171]

Well, I'm a native of Noo Joisey and Noo Yawk (I know both sides of the Hudson very well and commuted daily through the Lincoln Tunnel. Of course one can't say no one speaks like Falk in that area but I never heard anyone speak like Falk, and that's from several boroughs. Come to think of it, if that way of talking was common Falk would not have stood out with it! Elvis' speech patterns were far more typical of his region than Falk's of his.

[Onlymusical]

Judging from Lemmon's sideburns here, I think Columbo had already been on the air quite a while since that series' debut far preceded fuller sideburns, but Falk always talked that way and Lemmon surely knew his voice long, long before that. Moreover, there's no telling whether Lemmon knew he was mimicking Falk since that's a common type of New York voice, believe me.

[Onlymusical]

@Richard40171 It's a perfect imitation of Peter Falk but Falk always sounded like that, long long before Columbo. Whether Lemmon consciously knew he was mimicking Falk is anybody's guess, though. It's a type of New York accent I hear here all the time.

[Onlymusical]

Amazing. Lemmon does a perfect Peter Falk and mind-blowingly, there's William Shatner, sitting there like an actual actor.

[banner74]

@thesocialpet January 24,1965,he did have a short series he starred in before "Star Trek",it was called "For The People" and would've be on at this time.

[Hunni]

He wrote his name different from the last time he was on there. I swear I was born pass my time I do love me some Jack Lemmon great actor. I can watch Three For The Show over and over.