Felicia Farr

Farr was born in Westchester County, New York.{{cite news |title=Felicia Farr, a New Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21549569/felicia_farr/ |work=The Jackson Hole Guide |date=August 18, 1955 |location=Wyoming, Jackson |page=11|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 4, 2018}} {{Open access}} She attended Erasmus Hall High School{{cite news |title=Blonde Model on Her Way to Stardom |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21551117/felicia_farr/ |work=The Star Press |agency=United Press |date=September 4, 1955 |location=Indiana, Muncie |page=19|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 4, 2018}} {{Open access}} and studied sociology at Penn State.{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Harold V. |title=The Drama Desk |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21549088/pittsburgh_postgazette/ |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=September 19, 1957 |location=Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |page=14|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}

Farr began modeling lingerie at age 15. In 1955, she told a wire-service reporter: "I was under age and over-developed ... The agency claimed I was 19 because a state law required underage lingerie models to be chaperoned".{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Vernon |title=New Actress Snaps At Girdle Wearing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21550257/felicia_farr/ |work=Arizona Republic |agency=United Press |date=September 3, 1955 |location=Arizona, Phoenix |page=13}}

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She appeared in several modeling photo shoots and advertisements during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, she signed a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures.{{cite news |title=Starlet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21550660/felicia_farr/ |work=Star Tribune |agency=United Press |date=September 4, 1955 |location=Minnesota, Minneapolis |page=7|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 4, 2018}} {{Open access}}

Her earliest screen appearances date from the mid-1950s. They include three westerns directed by Delmer Daves: Jubal (1956){{cite news |title=2 New Beauties in 'Jubal Troop' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21550847/fort_lauderdale_news/ |work=Ford Lauderdale News |date=September 4, 1955 |location=Florida, Fort Lauderdale |page=33 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=July 4, 2018}} {{Open access}} and 3:10 to Yuma (1957), both starring Glenn Ford, and The Last Wagon (1956), starring Richard Widmark.

Farr's later film appearances include the bawdy Billy Wilder farce Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) with Dean Martin and Ray Walston as her husband (a role originally intended for Jack Lemmon); Walter Matthau's daughter-in-law in Kotch (1971) (Lemmon's only film as director); and the Don Siegel bank-heist caper Charley Varrick (1973) with Matthau.

She had more than 30 TV appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Ben Casey, Burke's Law, Harry O, and many others.

On September 2, 1949, she married actor Lee Farr,{{cite news |last1=Cohn |first1=Herb |title=Cupid Tangles Wedding Knot Four Times Before It's Tied |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21532268/felicia_farr/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=September 3, 1949 |location=New York, Brooklyn |page=1|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 3, 2018}} {{Open access}} a marriage which produced a daughter, Denise Farr, who later became the wife of actor Don Gordon. Farr's second husband was actor Jack Lemmon; they married in 1962 while Lemmon was filming the comedy Irma La Douce in Paris. They remained married until his death in 2001.

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, from his first marriage.

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• Wayfarers (1960)
• Naked City (1960) (Season 2 Episode 3: "A Succession of Heartbeats") as June Waldon
• Wagon Train (1961) (Season 4 Episode 33: "The Eleanor Culhane Story") as Eleanor Culhane
• Target: The Corruptors! (1961) (Season 1 Episode 4: "The Invisible Government") as Ronnie Dale (uncredited)
• Ben Casey (1962) (Season 2 Episode 3: "In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption") as Rowena Dirkson
• The Defenders (1962) (Season 2 Episode 8: "The Bigamist") as Mildred Janos
• Bonanza (1963) (Season 4 Episode 20: "Marie, My Love") as Marie DeMarigny
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964) (Season 2 Episode 15: "Night Caller") as Marcia Fowler
• Burke's Law (1964) (Season 1 Episode 23: "Who Killed Avery Lord?") as Whitney Kelly
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965) (Season 2 Episodes 20 and 21: "Memorandum for a Spy" parts 1 and 2) as Jemy
• Run for Your Life (1967) (Season 3 Episode 15: "Fly by Night") as Alita Greenley
• It Takes a Thief (1970) (Season 3 Episode 16: "The Steal-Driving Man") as Corey Laughton
• Awake and Sing! (1972) (TV movie) as Hennie

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