Talk:Jack Lee (film director)

Marriages

He was married three times

What was the third marriage? The DNB implies there were only two. Flapdragon 09:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Jack Lee: Marriages:
Nora Dawson (1948 - 1963) (divorced) 2 children
Isabel Kidman (1963 - 1985) (her death)
Nora Lee (19?? - 15 October 2002) (his death) 2 children - this last fact came from the 'Stroud News & Journal' weekly newspaper, but I cannot find a ref online.

Unfortunately, the pre-married name of Nora is not known (yet!). Tinminer 21:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

But definitely two different Noras? Flapdragon 17:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Jack and Laurie

How do we know Jack and Laurie were never on good terms? Tinminer 22:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

From DNB:

Despite their poverty, his mother ... contrived to remove Jack from the village school to Marling grammar school in Stroud. His being singled out in this way may have been the start of the lifelong coolness between Lee and his younger brother Laurie ... Jack objected to Laurie's exposure of the family's early poverty, with the mother ‘muddled and mischievous as a chimney jackdaw’; but in 1990 he admitted that ‘when I was a child … my mother would send me out on begging expeditions, because she never had any money’ (McFarlane, 356). He and Laurie remained unreconciled at the time of the latter's death, their estrangement exacerbated by a quarrel over the ownership of a Henry Moore drawing.

Brian McFarlane, ‘Lee, (Wilfred) Jack Raymond (1913–2002)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2006 accessed 22 April 2007

Flapdragon 22:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. Had not see that before. Suggest put the DNB in as a 3rd reference? Tinminer 09:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Why not. Flapdragon 16:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Place of birth

The article says he was born in Slad, the village where the Lee family lived. My uncle, John Wilcox, a film make-up artist was once in a group (probably in a pub) with Jack Lee present and said 'I was born in Shepscombe'. 'So was I', said Jack Lee. Shepscombe (now called Sheepscombe) is the next village to Slad. My uncle was born in the vicarage there in 1903. Is it possible that Annie Lee was staying there when she gave birth to her son Jack? 2A00:23C7:CA9E:4001:E53F:5C5E:7F1:F57E (talk) 16:48, 7 March 2024 (UTC)