Jerry Lewis

On stage 2 productions, 37 years

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

In the literature8 passages

• In 1954, the musical was radically revised for the screen as Living It Up . The Paramount film starred Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (the latter played Hazel—that is, Homer Flagg), and the cast included Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, and, in a reprise of her Broadway role, Sheree North (the film’s world premiere program spelled her…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Besides Jerry Lewis, the cast of the vaudeville-styled program included singer Eydie Gorme, Chiquita & Johnson (“America’s Number One Acro-Ballet Dancers”), and Arren & Broderick (“Opera in the Ruff”). Lewis’s act was staged by Nick Castle; musical arrangements were by Buddy Bregman, special lyrics by Herbert Baker, and vocal arrangements…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Not that it mattered. At the moment she stepped toward me, her eyes making contact with mine and a smile forming on her lips, Jerry Lewis, standing behind ropes to the side of me, called out, “Hey, Dick!” I turned and said, “What?” as the queen stood in front of me, waiting to be acknowledged. I was mortified and have never gotten even wi…ebooks/Dyke, Dick Van/My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business_ A Memoir - Dick Van Dyke.txt
• That’s what producer Alexander H. Cohen was planning to christen the walkway when his production of Jerry Lewis in Hellzapoppin’ would open at the Minskoff on February 13, 1977. The only problem was that Jerry Lewis in Hellzapoppin’ closed in Boston twenty-two days earlier. Until he died in 2000, Cohen called Lewis “the worst mistake I ev…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• “Gore Vidal did a satirical play called Visit to a Small Planet that became a Jerry Lewis movie. He also did The Best Man , a very safe, rather pretentious, and quite homophobic political play—ironic, in that Vidal is homosexual and twice ran for political office.”—Broadway costume designer MILES WHITE (Oklahoma! )ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• I also worked with Jerry Lewis in Las Vegas. I’ve always admired him as a performer, and Marty adores Jerry because Jerry gave him his first break in show business. Jerry is a super-duper talent, but I found him far too full of himself. He would never talk to me the way a regular person does.ebooks/Jones, Shirley/Shirley Jones_ A Memoir - Shirley Jones.txt

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