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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... -sixth birthday and living in apparent retirement from screen performance. While he is perhaps the most versatile of modern-day entertainers—he is a veteran of virtually every form of show business, 2 MURRAY POMERANCE.
... show business, from vaudeville to tummling in the Catskills; stage singing routines; radio; the celebrated cabaret, stage, and television comedy performances with Dean Martin that lasted exactly ten years, from July 25, 1946, until July ...
... 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 particular ways that bring new light ...
... show business, know that the inventor of the monitor, now commonly called the video assist, was Jerry Lewis.” (2002, 3) 2. In this light, consider his casting the mezzo-soprano Helen Traubel as Mrs. Wellenmellen in The Ladies Man (1961) ...
... show-business titles of varying size and attitude. But I always knew exactly what my intention was: a full-scale, soup-to-nuts, authoritative life with passages of criticism—Richard Ellmann's James Joyce recast 32 SHAWN LEVY.
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |