The great Jerry Lewis himself
will co-host these two evenings of
his films. The comic actor/director/
producer/screenwriter, adored by
French critics and audiences everywhere,
is celebrated with movies representing
four decades of his
illustrious career.
The first evening covers Lewis'
filmic partnership with crooner Dean
Martin and includes two TCM premieres,
The Stooge (1952), about a troubled
pair of vaudeville performers; and
Artists and Models (1955), in which Dean
plays a struggling artist and Jerry an
aspiring children's author. Also
screening are At War with the Army
(1950), with the boys as bumbling soldiers;
The Caddy (1953), with Jerry as a
struggling golf instructor and Dean as
a star client; and You're Never Too Young
(1955), in which Jerry hilariously poses
as an 11-year-old.
The second evening looks at the
"auteur" phase of the Lewis career and
also features a pair of TCM premieres.
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
has Lewis producing, directing and
starring in the story of a rich playboy
who forms his own army. Cracking Up
(aka Smorgasbord, 1983) is directed and
co-written by Lewis and casts him as a
psychiatric patient. Also showing are
The Bellboy (1960), which was written,
produced and directed by Lewis and
features him in the leading role; Three
on a Couch (1966), directed by Lewis,
with Jerry as an artist in love with
psychiatrist Janet Leigh; and Martin
Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983),
starring Lewis as a talk-show host kidnapped
by autograph hound Robert
De Niro.
BONUS VIDEO CLIPS!
Jerry Lewis, as one might expect, provided more anecdotes and discussion than would fit in our evenings of introductions. Click on the links below for some EXCLUSIVE bonus clips from our Mediaroom. Watch Jerry discuss these topics:
The Bellboy (1960)
My Dad
Dean's Gone
Lady!
Dean, Eight Shows
Jerry Lewis' 90th Birthday
by autograph hound Robert | February 26, 2016
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