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Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 film. It's an absorbing and frightening study of the insidiousness of addiction. Joy Clay (Jack Lemmon) meets and falls in love with Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick). They marry and make a child and home. In due time both succum to the pleasures and pain of alcohol addiction.

It was written by J.P. Miller and directed by Blake Edwards.

The film pulls no punches and offers hope to those wishing to recover from the ravages of "King Alcohol."

Awards

Academy of Motion Pictures, AMPAS (1962) Won: Best Music, Original Song, Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics).
Academy of Motion Pictures, AMPAS (1962) Nominations: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Jack Lemmon; Best Actress in a Leading Role, Lee Remick; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Joseph C. Wright and George James Hopkins; Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Donfeld.
It was selected by the film critics of The New York Times as one of the 1000 best films ever made.
Selected as one of American Film Institute's best 400 films.

Song origin

The phrase "days of wine and roses" is originally from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867-1900): They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes, Within a dream.

Quotes

Kirsten Arnesen Clay: Thanks for the compliment, but I know how I look. This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say? You see, the world looks so dirty to me when I'm not drinking. Joe, remember Fisherman's Wharf? The water when you looked too close? That's the way the world looks to me when I'm not drinking.
Joe Clay: I walked by Union Square Bar. I was going to go in. Then I saw myself, my reflection in the window, and I thought, "I wonder who that bum is"? And then I saw it was me. Now look at me. I'm a bum. Look at me! Look at you. You're a bum. Look at you. And look at us. Look at us. C'mon look at us! See? A couple of bums.
Joe Clay: You remember how it really was? You and me and booze--a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of something that kept me from going under, and I'm not going to let go of it. Not for you. Not for anyone. If you want to grab on, grab on. But there's just room for you and me--no threesome.

Taglines

This, in its own terrifying way, is a love story.

Trivia

The screenplay for the film was adapted by J.P. Miller from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 television script.
Filming Locations: San Francisco, Calif. and Albany, Calif. (Golden Gate Fields ractrack).

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