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Jack Lemmon Trivia
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- Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. in 1943.
- He once had a flavor of ice cream named after him, ("Jack Lemmon" flavor); the eponymous treat was created, marketed and sold by Baskin & Robbins 31 Flavors. It was still being produced in the early 1980s but has since been discontinued and is not currently listed on the Baskin & Robbins website.
- Was born February 8, 1925, in an elevator at a Newton, Massachusetts, hospital.
- During WW II, he served in the Naval Reserve and was the communications officer on the USS Lake Champlain.
- Appeared on an episode of The Simpsons, in which he convinced Marge to get into the pretzel business. Shelley Levine, his character from Glengarry Glen Ross, was the inspiration for another Simpsons character, the usually jobless Gil, who Marge first met while working at a real estate firm.
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