Life and career

Born Olive Dines, Felicia Farr appeared in several modeling photo shoots and advertisements during the 1950s and 1960s. Her earliest 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, who later 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.

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. She is also the stepmother of Lemmon's son, actor and author Chris Lemmon.

Selected filmography

• Time Table (1955)
• Big House, U.S.A. (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)

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)

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