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Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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16 March 1997
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
28 June 1996
When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart.
18 December 1982
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
07 November 1963
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California.
27 July 2000
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging.
06 January 1993
Rebellious young Axel Blackmar gets caught up into the family car business when his cousin, Paul, coaxes him to come to Arizona to attend the wedding of their Uncle Leo.
02 November 1958
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
24 February 2017
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
29 April 2016
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
07 August 2009
The film chronicles George's adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus show and helps her travel across the country to be reunited with her family.
04 June 1963
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo.
03 February 2016
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".
30 September 2012
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002.
15 March 2006
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
14 May 2014
Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'
16 May 2021
The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.
07 November 1955
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
14 November 2021
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas.
24 November 2008
To impress a beautiful girl, Harold Kelp, the grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potion to transform his personality, gets his hands on his grandfather's secret elixir and unleashes his destructive alter ego, Jack.
01 January 1992
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis were the hottest act in America in the 1950's & the highest paid comedy team in show business.
24 June 1964
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer.
21 June 1961
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job.
31 May 1951
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm.
22 December 1965
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United.
20 September 1995
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
25 October 2011
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
01 August 1956
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.
04 August 1954
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground.
19 May 1996
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz.
23 July 1958
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
18 December 1960
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert.
08 February 1952
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected.
23 September 1992
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire.
27 May 1970
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
27 April 1953
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island.
13 April 1983
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up.
25 August 1955
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
16 December 1964
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish.
25 June 1950
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
04 February 1960
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens.
11 June 1952
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier.
05 December 1952
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers.
22 March 2019
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joined ‘The New Yorker’ in 1968.
12 July 1968
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him.
02 August 1989
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison.
31 December 1950
Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin.
26 November 2024
The following video essay, written and narrated for the Criterion Collection by Peter Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette, considers Moze and Addie’s father-daughter-like relationship, as well as the formal techniques and visual styles informed by it, in PAPER MOON.
01 November 1997
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
06 December 1956
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too.
22 December 1954
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams.
18 November 1984
Clovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy industrialist Prosper de Courtaboeuf, to obtain evidence of the infidelity of her husband.
10 August 1953
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.
09 November 1965
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world.
14 October 1949
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
31 December 1953
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run.
03 September 1970
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler.
15 November 1951
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes.
20 July 1960
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone.
28 November 1961
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr.
18 April 2016
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
