Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 274 pages The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. |
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... cantor's son who finds a career in show business from its origins in the 1920s through the many modifications it has seen. Lewis's version, with the protagonist finally performing “Kol Nidre” in clownface, is shown to be peculiar in ...
... Cantor, and, to be sure, Jerry Lewis. It is Al Jolson whom we best remember, but Murphy reminds us that Jerry actually made a best-selling record of the minstrel-show tune “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” some thirty years ...
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Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |