The Caddy

Part of the Jerry Lewis back-story, he’s San Francisco department store employee Harvey, who would be a golfer but for bad nerves, with girlfriend Lisa (Barbara Bates), meeting the real Ben Hogan, then his furious boss (Fred Clark), in the seventh Martin and Lewis star vehicle, The Caddy, 1953.

We’ve just learned that semi-hapless Harvey (Jerry Lewis) rents a room from the parents of his girlfriend Lisa (Barbara Bates), just gone to bed when her handsome but aimless brother Joe (Dean Martin) returns to San Francisco, thus their character’s first meeting, in The Caddy, 1953.

The very first staging of Dean Martin’s colossal hit and enduring signature song, by Harry Warren and Jack Brooks, at a San Francisco Italian birthday party for his character Joe, with his buddy (Jerry Lewis as “Harvey”) joining, though he didn’t on the record, in Paramount’s The Caddy, 1953.

The opening device has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis playing themselves, re-named Joe Anthony and Harvey Miller, a musical-comedy duo headlining the Paramount Theater in Times Square, song by Harry Warren and Jack Brooks, in their seventh feature as top-billed stars, from Paramount, The Caddy, 1953.

Jerry Lewis hits the links while Dean Martin sings "That's Amore" in the comedy hit The Caddy (1953).