Jerry Lewis
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome Italian crooner and a skinny Jewish monkey. The moment they got together, something clicked--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis would be after them, grabbing an unprecedented hold over radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution--and then, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Comedy legend Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The "Jekyll and Hyde" game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious...
5) The Bellboy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2004, c1960
Language
English
Description
Stanley’s a bellboy at the popular Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, quietly performing his duties with the occasional blunder. Then one day, a big star of the screen resembling the bumbling bellboy, arrives at the hotel. In this comedy classic (the directorial debut of Jerry Lewis) not a single word of dialogue is spoken by the main character until the very end of the film, paying a brilliant tribute to the silent clowns of early cinema.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden's groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics...
9) Cinderfella
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In a hilarious twist on the timeless fairy tale, the irrepressible Jerry Lewis plays the title role of CINDERFELLA – a hard-working and honest lad mistreated by his wicked stepmother (Judith Anderson) and his two boorish stepbrothers (Henry Silva, Robert Hutton). But miracles do happen – especially when your Fairy Godfather is the one-and-only Ed Wynn! With a little – okay, a lot – of wizardry and magic, the wacky Wynn manages to transform...
10) Arizona dream
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
11) The trust
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Waters and Stone are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of such a large amount of cash. Through diligent police work they follow a trail that leads directly to a custom bank-style vault.
Publisher
Infinity Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], c1967-1969
Language
English
Description
Features the hilarious best-of highlights from 13 episodes of The Jerry Lewis Show. Lewis was surrounded by a who's who of Hollywood's comic royalty and is at his best in the side-splitting classic character portrayals that made him a legendary comedy chameleon, including Sidney Portnoy, a nebbish and his alter ego; Professor Frobisher; Oriental criminologist Inspector Sam Lichee; and others. Guests include: Flip Wilson, Don Rickles, Frank Gorshin,...
14) The Patsy
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, can't do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time.
16) The ladies man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Herbert is a confirmed bachelor and bumbler who finds a new job- houseboy in an all-female boarding house!
17) Funny bones
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Language
English
Description
Struggling in the shadow of his famous father (Jerry Lewis), a young comic (Oliver Platt) retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He's in for more than a few suprises before learning that his own eccentric family has the best material for a perfect act.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Why are there so many Jewish comedians? Get the answer to this question with a portrait of the country's greatest generation of comics that includes Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl, and Jerry Stiller. It is also found in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains, where Jewish immigrants transformed farmland into the 20th century's largest resort complex. It was the setting for a remarkable group of young Jewish-American comedians to hone...
19) The geisha boy
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling magician the Great Wooley and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. Jerry combines his trademark antics with a compassionate central story: an orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magician's humor and caring.--Container.
20) The Patsy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
p2004, c1964
Language
English
Description
When a top comedian is killed in a plane crash, his sycophants try to groom a bellhop into taking his place.
