Lee Ann Remick was an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder , Days of Wine and Roses , and The Omen . Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gertrude Margaret , an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store. Her maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Duffield, was an English-born preacher. Remick attended the Swaboda School of Dance, The Hewitt School and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with Be Your Age. Remick made her film debut in... Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd . While filming the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the attention of Lonesome Rhodes . After appearing as Eula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner in 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, she appeared in These Thousand Hills as a dance hall girl.
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