Felicia Farr

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Felicia Farr
Felicia Farr in trailer for "Kiss Me, Stupid" (1964)
Born	(1932-10-04) October 4, 1932 Westchester County, New York, U.S.^[1]
Other names	Randy Farr, Olive Farr
Occupation	Actress/Model
Years active	1954–1992
Spouse(s)	Lee Farr (1949–55) Jack Lemmon (1962–2001)

Felicia Farr (born October 4, 1932) is a former American actress^[2] and model.^[1]

Life and career

Born Olive Dines, Felicia Farr appeared in several modeling photo shoots and advertisements during the 1950s and 1960s. Her earlist screen appearances date from the mid-fifties and included the Westerns Jubal (1956) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957), both starring Glenn Ford and The Last Wagon (1956) starring Richard Widmark.

Lee Farr was her first husband, a marriage which produced a daughter, Denise Farr Gordon, who became the wife of actor Don Gordon. Farr's second husband was the film star Jack Lemmon; they married in 1962, while Lemmon was filming the comedy Irma La Douce in Paris, and remained married until his death in 2001.^[3]

Farr's later films include the bawdy Billy Wilder farce Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) with Dean Martin and Ray Walston as her husband, a role originally intended for Lemmon; Walter Matthau's daughter-in-law in Kotch (1971, Lemmon's only film as director); the Don Siegel bank-heist caper Charley Varrick (1973) with Matthau; plus more than thirty television series appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, Ben Casey, Burke's Law and many others.

During her marriage to Jack Lemmon, Farr gave birth to a daughter, Courtney, in 1966.^[3] She is also the stepmother of Lemmon's son, actor and author Chris Lemmon.

Selected filmography

Time Table (1955)
Jubal (1956)
The Last Wagon (1956)
Reprisal (1956)
The First Texan (1956)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Onionhead (1958)

Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
The Venetian Affair (1967)
Kotch (1971)
Charley Varrick (1973)
That's Life! (1986)
The Player (1992)^[1]

Selected television appearances

Naked City (1960)
Wagon Train (1961)
Target: The Corruptors! (1961)
Ben Casey (1962)
The Defenders (1962)
Bonanza (1963)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964)
Burke's Law (1964)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965)
Run for Your Life (1967)
It Takes a Thief (1970)
Awake and Sing! (1972)^[1]

References

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268012/
↑ Eyles, Allen (1975). The Western. A. S. Barnes. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-498-01323-2. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "Felicia Farr - The Private Life and Times of Felicia Farr. Felicia Farr Pictures". Glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Retrieved 2012-12-07.

External links

Felicia Farr at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	VIAF: 80530559 ISNI: 0000 0003 6855 7991 GND: 136134505 BNF: cb141763954

Persondata
Name	Farr, Felicia
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	October 4, 1932
Place of birth	Westchester County, New York, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

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