Does anyone know if they did the greenhouse scene right after Ernie died? Jack is so powerfully whacked in that scene, it's like he's pulling up something terrible from within himself, and I wonder if it was actually a catharsis of grief over his friend.
shareI often thought this as well. But at the same time, Jack's friend Marilyn Monroe died that year too, as well as his father. So 1962 was a pretty bad year, in his private life. Although Jack also got married for the second time that year.
Jack Lemmon: America's Sweetheart
"It's Magic Time"
Robert Osborne stated in his introduction to the screening of Days of Wine and Roses tonight that Jack Lemmon's father became gravely ill, was ill for a period of time and died during the shooting of this film.
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