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16 unusual facts about Jerry Lewis


Charanga Habanera

During this time they shared stage with such famous artists as Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Barry White, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Whitney Houston, and Kool and the Gang.

Corrado Mantoni

He also worked as dubber for foreign actors including Jerry Lewis.

Exner Revival Cars

A prototype was again produced by Ghia, and 50 buyers signed up, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis.

Gabe Baltazar

Between 1965 and 1969 he worked extensively in the Los Angeles recording studios, principally for NBC, where he played in the television orchestras for The Pat Boone Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Smothers Brothers Show, and The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.

Ismael Miranda

He sang and played conga for the group and they were good enough to appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.

John Philp Thompson, Sr.

John Philp Thompson again made history when under his guidance, Southland Corp. (7-Eleven) raised $81.5 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, prompting Jerry Lewis to write, “You accomplished so much, and you and your father before you built a monument. The good you've done will never be forgotten.”

Nagesh

Nagesh's style of comedy was largely inspired by Hollywood actor Jerry Lewis.

National Association of Letter Carriers

The union has a close relationship with Jerry Lewis and his annual Labor Day telethon and is invariably one of the groups showcased by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir

Clovis Blaireau (Jerry Lewis) is a private detective who is hired to spy on the cheating husband (Philippe Clair) by his wife (Marthe Villalonga).

This was one of two films that Jerry Lewis made in the 1980s strictly for European release.

Patrick Topaloff

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, writer/director Philippe Clair cast Topaloff in a number of slapstick comedy films similar to the Carry On series in the UK or those made by Jerry Lewis in the US after splitting with Dean Martin.

Robert Benayoun

Benayoun was one of comedian Jerry Lewis's greatest supporters and directed a film about him called Bonjour Mr. Lewis.

Ross C. Goodman

In 2008 Goodman represented comedian and entertainer Jerry Lewis in a firearms charge.

Serge Daney

In 1964, Daney joined the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma with a series of interviews of American film directors (notably Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, Josef von Sternberg and Jerry Lewis) conducted with Jean Louis Noames (aka Louis Skorecki) during a trip to Hollywood.

Sherman Klump

Professor Sherman Klump is a fictional character portrayed by actor Eddie Murphy in the 1996 film The Nutty Professor and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, similar to the Julius Kelp character played by Jerry Lewis in the original film.

WRGB

This was no longer necessary starting with Jerry Lewis' retirement as telethon host and MDA chairman in 2011, as the telethon was significantly shortened to six hours that year.


Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

Chuck Zink

Zink worked with Jerry Lewis as the local representative for many of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethons, not only as the local host for 24 years of the marathon through 2005, but by including children with muscular dystrophy on his children's show.

Doll on a Music Box

In 1992 "Doll on a Music Box" was re-enacted as part of a surrealistic sequence of the 1992 film, Arizona Dream starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor.

Donna Butterworth

Donna Butterworth (born February 23, 1956) is an American motion picture performer who acted in The Family Jewels with Jerry Lewis and Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Elvis Presley, as well as a television movie, A Boy Called Nuthin' with Ron Howard.

Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York

'Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York' is a song from the musical Hazel Flagg and from the movie Living It Up (in which it was performed by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis).

George Carl

At the age of 79, George Carl made his screen debut in the 1995 film Funny Bones also starring Jerry Lewis (it was also the last film Lewis appeared in).

Georgina Starr

In 1995, Starr's Visit to a Small Planet featured videos, photographs, objects and drawings based loosely on a memory of a Jerry Lewis film called Visit to a Small Planet which evoked many emotional states.

Hardly Working

The film opens with a montage of scenes from earlier Jerry Lewis films, including The Bellboy, Cinderfella, The Errand Boy, Who's Minding the Store?, and The Patsy.

I'm Sitting on Top of the World

Notable interpretations have been recorded by these performers: Carl Perkins, Doris Day, Bobby Darin, Taj Mahal & Corey Harris, Gordon Smith, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and Jerry Lewis.

James H. Street

The Broadway musical, Hazel Flagg, was based on his short story, as well as the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis-film Living It Up.

Johnny Ginger

By the early 1960s Johnny adapted a new character inspired by the Jerry Lewis film The Bellboy, that of the head bellboy at the Rocky Plaza Hotel, run by Rocky Granet (the voice of Rube Weiss), and the show became The Johnny Ginger Show.

Liliane Montevecchi

In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a contract by MGM, which cast her in secondary roles in such films as The Glass Slipper and Daddy Long Legs, in both of which she was overshadowed by leading lady Leslie Caron, the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Sad Sack, and King Creole with Elvis Presley.

Loulie Jean Norman

She also acted and sang the role of the Princess on the LP made from the 1960 Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella .

Marco Reginelli

In the early 1950s, the 500 Club frequently presented singer Dean Martin, who first performed with comedian and future partner Jerry Lewis at the club.

Max Wilk

His fiction includes Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; the movie version starred Jerry Lewis and shifted the locale from "Green Haven" (based on Ridgefield) to London, England.

Patty Weaver

She began her acting career by guest starring on television series Maude and All in the Family, she began her daytime acting career with a nine-year stint on Days of Our Lives. Weaver keeps busy on the night club circuit and has opened for Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Jerry Lewis and George Burns in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Public Integrity Section

After this blow to its reputation, it was criticized for "being gun-shy" because it had closed out without pressing charges a "series of long-running investigations into current or former members of Congress," including Senator John Ensign of Nevada and Representatives Tom DeLay of Texas, Jerry Lewis of California, Allan B. Mollohan of West Virginia, and Don Young of Alaska.

Sally Mansfield

Marie Mahder (December 13, 1920 – January 28, 2001), best known by her stage name Sally Mansfield, was an American television character actress; she also had a few small roles in feature films including one with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

The Caddy

It was later re-released in 1964 on a double bill with another Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis picture, You're Never Too Young.

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down is a 1970 animated showcase for various caricatured Jerry Lewis characters, all based on characters from the Lewis film, The Family Jewels and styled in a fashion similar to Archie's TV Funnies and the Groovie Goolies.

Willie Moretti

In the late 1940s, Moretti become acquainted with comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis while they were performing at Bill Miller's Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, New Jersey.