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Days of Wine and Roses is a american film of genre Drama directed by Blake Edwards released in USA on 17 january 1963 with Jack Lemmon
Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
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Add to a movie listDays of Wine and Roses is a 1962 film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name.
The movie was produced by Martin Manulis, with music by Henry Mancini, and features Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford and Jack Klugman. The film depicts the downward spiral of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and attempt to deal with their problem.
An Academy Award went to the film's theme music, composed by Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film received four other Oscar nominations, including ones for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Synopsis
Public relations man Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) meets and falls in love with Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), a secretary. Kirsten is a teetotaler until Joe introduces her to social drinking. Reluctant at first, after her first few Brandy Alexanders, she admits that having a drink "made me feel good." Despite the misgivings of her father (Charles Bickford), who runs a San Mateo landscaping business, they get married and give birth to a daughter named Debbie.Actors
Jack Lemmon
(Joe Clay)
Lee Remick
(Kirsten Arnesen Clay)
Charles Bickford
(Ellis Arnesen)
Jack Klugman
(Jim Hungerford)
Alan Hewitt
(Rad Leland)
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