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Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross THE 1992 film version of David Mamet's searing, sweary stage play about the cut-throat world of real estate salesmen may have a stellar cast that includes Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey and Jack Lemon, but it's always Mr 30 Rock's opening seven minutes that stick in the memory Meant to motivate staff with a pep talk, Baldwin succeeds only in spectacularly turning the air blue and informing them that whoever sells the least that month will get the boot.

Jane Fonda plays a TV journalist, following her source (Jack Lemon) around, hoping he will tell her about the dangers of a nuclear meltdown in the plant where he works.

This multi Oscar-winning comedy drama stars Jack Lemon as CC Baxter, an insurance clerk who lets out his apartment to his superiors so that they can enjoy extra-marital trysts.

Both man and rat team up creating an odd couple funnier than that of Jack Lemon and Walther Mathau.

The comedy Some Like It Hot, which also starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon, was the favourite Marilyn film, followed by Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis take a break from filming Some Like It Hot

As Jack Lemon said (dressed in drag) in Some Like it Hot: 'Makes a girl think

The Anniversary was haunted by the spectre of Bette Davis, and The Odd Couple by the spirits of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon.

It would be way better going back to Jack Lemon's tremendous performance in "Days of Wine and Roses." A drunk, sure, but he didn't drink and drive, or rip off his mom.