Cast: Jerry Lewis

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Jerry Lewis · Robert De Niro · Sandra Bernhard · Diahnne Abbott

Synopsis Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up,...

Direction Tom Donahue

Cast Angie Dickinson · Bob Newhart · Jerry Lewis · Regis Philbin

Synopsis The story of Dean Martin.

Direction Gregg Barson

Cast Jerry Lewis · Steven Spielberg · Quentin Tarantino · Eddie Murphy

Synopsis The list of guests participating in this documentary is spectacular. Here’s an example of just a few names: Alec Baldwin, Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld. All of them, icons of more or less recent American comedy. And it’s no wonder...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a dying criminal reveals the location of hidden treasure to a group of strangers. This sparks a frenzied, cross-country race as greed takes over, with each participant resorting to outrageous schemes...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Milton Berle · Sammy Davis Jr. · Herb Edelman

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Johnny Depp · Faye Dunaway · Jerry Lewis · Lili Taylor

Synopsis A romantic comedy about the adventures of an innocent dreamer in the weird landscape of the American West. Caught between childhood and adulthood he finds himself back in his hometown where he becomes involved with a wealthy widow and her...

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marie McDonald · Sessue Hayakawa · Barton MacLane

Synopsis 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.

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Ina Balin · Everett Sloane · Phil Harris

Synopsis When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The...

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Jill St. John · Agnes Moorehead · John McGiver

Synopsis Barbara (Jill St. John) is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is and prepares to marry him. But, Mrs. Tuttle (Barbara's mother)...

Direction Rob Garver

Cast Pauline Kael · Quentin Tarantino · Woody Allen · Alec Baldwin

Synopsis Pauline Kael was likely the most powerful, and divisive, movie critic of the 20th century. Her love of movies was revealed in her ruthless pursuit of what made a movie or an actor's performance work, or not, and why --...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Stella Stevens · Del Moore · Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Helen Traubel · Kathleen Freeman · Hope Holiday

Synopsis The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert H. Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job, he comes across an impressive mansion (built as a set at the cost of 350,000 US...

Direction John Rich

Cast Tony Curtis · Jerry Lewis · Dany Saval · Christiane Schmidtmer

Synopsis Living in Paris, american playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. However, his life soon starts to descend into a shambles after the arrival of...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Janet Leigh · James Best · Leslie Parrish

Synopsis An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge...

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Pat Crowley · Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom

Synopsis A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Glenda Farrell · Everett Sloane · Karen Sharpe

Synopsis When he flunks out of med school, Jerome Littlefield goes to work as an orderly in a private rest home where he wreaks havoc for everyone concerned. Dr. Jean Howard is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Brian Donlevy · Sig Ruman · Dick Wesson

Synopsis When Mr. T.P., president of Paramutual Studios, hires clumsy Morty Tashman (Jerry Lewis) to be "The Errand Boy" and to spy on his fellow employees in an efficiency "sting" operation, he never realized that he was developing the recipe for...

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Susan Oliver · Roger C. Carmel · Deanna Lund

Direction Peter Chelsom

Cast Oliver Platt · Jerry Lewis · Lee Evans · Richard Griffiths

Synopsis Struggling comedian Tommy Fawkes (Platt) bombs in Vegas big-time while his Mr. Showbiz father George (Lewis) easily overshadows him at every turn. So Tommy decides to head back to his childhood home in Blackpool, England and figure out his life....

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marilyn Maxwell · Salvatore Baccaloni · Connie Stevens

Synopsis Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a big fan of glamorous movie star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), a recent widow who gives birth to triplets--a fact she wants kept hush-hush since she's starring as a virgin in a religious epic. So...