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Abbott, Diahnne
Abbott, John
Abbott and Costello
ABC
censors
“The Hollywood Palace”
and Jerry Lewis
“The Jerry Lewis Show”
“Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?!” (animated series)
Academy Awards
and comedy
Jerry Lewis as host
Acapulco Film Festival
Adams, Joey
Adler, Jerry
AGVA (American Guild of Variety Artists)
and Jerry Lewis
Alberghetti, Anna Maria
Alda, Robert
Alexander, Willard
Allardice, James
Allen, Steve
Allen, Woody
Allyson, June
Alpert, Larry
Ambassador Hotel (Catskills)
Ambrose, Sammy
American Film
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
American Museum of the Moving Image (NYC)
Amory, Cleveland
Amsterdam, Morey
Anastasia, Albert
Anderson, Judith
Andersson, Harriet
Angeli, Pier
anti-Semitism
Archerd, Army
Aristocrats
Arizona Dream (Lewis film)
Arlen, Alice
Arness, James
Arnold, Danny
Arnold, Edward
Arren, Charlotte
Arthur, Eugene
Arthur Hotel (Lakewood, N.J.)
Artists and Models (Martin & Lewis film)
Aspin, Les
At War with the Army (Martin & Lewis film)
auteur theory
Avrom Buchom Cheldem School
Backus, Jim
badchem
Baja Marimba Band
Baker, George
Baker, Herbert
Baker, Phil
Balalyan, Richard
Balin, Ina
Ball, Lucille
Ballard, Kaye
Bally’s Hotel (Las Vegas)
Barclay, Michael
Barnes, Clive
Barney’s Beanery
Barr, Leonard
Barrymore, John, Jr.
Barty, Billy
Bates, Barbara
Bates, Peg Leg
Baum, Charles
Bay, Susan
Baylos, Gene
Beachcomber Club (Miami)
Beaudine, William
Beaumont, Charles
Beck, Marilyn
Beebe, Hank
Bee Gees
Begelman, David
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (Mitchell and Petrillo film)
Belafonte, Harry
Bell, Hal
Bellboy, The (Lewis film)
Beloin, Ed
Beltzer, Kenneth
Ben Ammar, Tarak
Benayoun, Robert
Bendix, William
Bennett, Robert
Bennett, Tony
Benny, Jack
Benson, Gary
Bergen, Polly
Bergman, Buddy
Berle, Milton
and Jerry Lewis
Bernhard, Sandra
Betz, Sarah
Biaggi, Mario
Biegger, Jeanne. See Martin, Jeanne
Big Mouth, The (Lewis film)
Billboard
Birch, Sammy
Bishop, Joey
Black, Lou
Blackburn, Norman
Blackman, Joan
Blaine, Vivian
Blanc, Michel
Boeing Boeing (Lewis film)
Bogdanovich, Peter
Boggs, Haskell
Bonjour, Monsieur Lewis (Benayoun)
Boone, Pat
Boone, Richard
Boros, Julius
Borscht Belt
tummlers and headliners
Boston Globe
Boston Herald American
Boston Phoenix
Bowers, William
Boy (film, d: Lewis)
Brandt, Bob
Bregman, Buddy
Brice, Fanny
Bridges, W. James
Broca, Lino
Broder, Jack
Broderick, Johnny
Brodsky, Elizabeth (“Buhddie”). See Weisenthal, Elizabeth Brodsky
Brodsky, Jean. See Epstein, Jean Brodsky
Brodsky, Joseph (grandfather)
Brodsky, Rachel. See Levitch, Rachel Brodsky Brodsky, Rose. See Katz, Rose Brodsky
Brodsky, Sarah. See Rothberg, Sarah
Bromfield, John
Brooks, Mel
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (Harburg/Gorney song)
Brown, Arthur (son)
Brown, Charles
Brown, Lillian
Brown, Lonnie (daughter)
Brown, Lou
Brown, Russ
Brown’s Hotel (Catskills)
premiere of You’re Never Too Young
Bruce, Lenny
Brynner, Yul
Buchwald, Art
Bukatman, Scott
burlesque
Burns, George
Burr, Raymond
Burrows, Abe
Burton, Richard
Bush, George
Butterworth, Donna
Buttons, Red
Byrnes, Edd “Kookie”
Cabot, Sebastian
Caddy, The (Martin & Lewis film)
Caesar, Sid
Caesar’s Palace (Las Vegas)
Cahan, Abraham
Cahiers du cinéma (French film journal)
Cahn, Sammy
Callas, Charlie
Callas, Maria
Calleia, Joseph
Calloway, Cab
Calonico, Esther. See Lewis, Patti
Calonico, Giuseppe (Patti’s father)
Calonico, Joseph (Patti’s brother)
Calonico, Mary (Patti’s mother). See Farina, Mary
Calvet, Corinne
Campbell, Judith
Campo, Pupi
Canby, Vincent
Cannell, Stephen J.
Cannes Film Festival
Cantor, Eddie
Capitol Records
Capp, Al
Cappella and Patricia
Capra, Frank
Carmel, Roger C.
Carol, Lily Ann
Caron, Leslie
Carr, Vicki
Carradine, John
Carrey, Jim
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Jack
Caruso, Dee
Carver, Ron
Castle, Nick
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger novel)
Catskills. See Borscht Belt
Cavett, Dick
Chamberlin, Jeffrey
Chandler, Jeff
Chaplin, Charles
influence on Jerry Lewis
Charash, Leon
Charles Baum’s Society Orchestra
Charo
Checker, Chubby
Chelsum, Peter
Chez Paree (Chicago)
Chiquita and Johnson
Chodan, Lucina
Choder, Jill
Christon, Lawrence
Cinderfella (Lewis film)
Cinéma journal
Circus, The (Chaplin film)
Ciro’s nightclub (Hollywood)
Citron, Herman
City Lights (Chaplin film)
Clair, Philippe
Clark, Fred
Clayton, Bob
Cobb, Karlene
Coca, Imogene
Cohen, Alexander H.
Cohen, Mickey
Cohen, Paul
Cohen, Roy
Cohn, Harry
Cohn, Roy
Cole, Nat “King”
Coleman, Cy
Coleman, Max
“Colgate Comedy Hour”
Columbia Artists Management
Columbia Pictures
The Big Mouth
break with
costs and earnings
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Film Industry Workshops
Hook, Line & Sinker
Three on a Couch
Combs, W. F.
Como, Perry
Connick, Harry, Jr.
Constantino, Nick
Cookie (Lewis film cameo)
Copacabana nightclub (NYC)
Coppola, Francis Ford
Corey, Joseph
Costanzo, Mindy
Costas, Bob
Costell, Dave
Costello, Frank
Costello, Lou
Coughlin, Father
Cracking Up (a.k.a. Smorgasbord) (Lewis film)
Crane, Bob
Crane, Harry
Crawford, Joan
Crocetti, Angela Barra (Dean Martin’s mother)
Crocetti, Bill (Guglielmo) (Dean Martin’s brother)
Crocetti, Dino. See Martin, Dean
Crocetti, Guy (Gaetano) (Dean Martin’s father)
Crocetti, Jimmy (Vincenzo) (Dean Martin’s uncle)
Crocetti, Joe (Giuseppe) (Dean Martin’s uncle)
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, John
Crosby, Norm
Cross, Perry
Crowley, Pat
Crowther, Bosley
Crystal, Billy
Curtis, Tony
Cushing, Peter
Cutler, Harry
Daily Mirror (London)
D’Amato, Skinny
Damon Runyon Memorial Fund
Damone, Vic
Darcy, Georgine
Darin, Bobby
Davidson, Bill
Davidson, Michael
Davis, Bette
Davis, Billy
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Davis, Willie
Day the Clown Cried, The (Lewis unreleased film)
Dayton, Dan
Deauville Hotel (Miami)
DeBakey, Michael
Decca Records
DeFore, Don
DeHaven, Carter
DeHaven, Gloria
Delarue, Georges
Delatiner, Barbara
Delgado, Mucio (“Moose”)
Delicate Delinquent, The (Lewis film)
DeMille, Cecil B.
Denney, Bruce
De Niro, Robert
Denton, Charles
Depp, Johnny
Detroit Free Press
DeVore, Charlie
DeVore, Sy
De Witt, George
DiBacco, Ambrogio
DiBenedetto, Irma
Diller, Phyllis
Dino’s Lodge (Martin’s restaurant)
Disability Rag
Disorderly Orderly, The (Lewis film)
Dolenz, George
Donlevy, Brian
Donahue, Phil
Donohue, Jill
Don’t Give Up the Ship (Lewis film)
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (Lewis film)
Dorita and Valero
Dorsey, Jimmy
Dorsey, John
Douglas, Gordon
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Mike
Downs, Hugh
Dru, Joanne
DuBrow, Rick
Duke, Maurice
Duke, Patty
Duke Ellington orchestra
Dunaway, Faye
Durant, Jack
Durante, Jimmy
Durgin, Don
Durocher, Leo
Ebbins, Milton
“Ed Sullivan Show” (CBS)
Edelman, Herb
Edouart, Farciot
Edwards, Vince
Eglash, Jack
Ekberg, Anita
Ellenstein, Meyer
Entman, Gerald
Entratter, Jack
Ephron, Nora
Epstein, Barney (uncle)
Epstein, Jean Brodsky (aunt)
Errand Boy, The (Lewis film)
Ervin, Mike
Esquire magazine
Esther and Her Sailing Swing Band
Etaix, Pierre
Evans, George
Evans, Lee
Everette, Chad
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) (Marx)
Fabray, Nanette
Fadiman, Clifton
Falana, Lola
Falk, Peter
Family Jewels, The (Lewis film)
Fapp, Daniel
Farber, Jim
Farina, Mary (Patti’s mother)
Farina, Mike
Farrell, Glenda
Fazenda, Louise
Feld, Fritz
Feldman, Marty
Feldman, Shepard. See Fields, Shep
Fields, Freddie
Fields, Shep
Fields, W. C.
Film Culture
Finkel, Bob
Finklehoff, Fred
Finnerman, Gerald-Perry
Fio Rito, Ted
Fischetti, Charlie
Fischler, Alan
Fisher, Eddie
Fitzgerald, Ella
500 Club (Atlantic City)
Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas)
Fleming, Judge Macklin
Fleming, Rhonda
Flood, Jim
Foch, Nina
Fonda, Henry
Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami)
Ford, Tennessee Ernie
Forrest, Artie
Forrest, Marcy
Forrest, Richard
Fowler, Gene
France-Soir
Frances, Anne
Frank, Melvin
Frank Olivier dancers
Franken, Steve
Franz, Eduard
Fred Fischer, Inc.
Freeman, Kathleen
Freeman, Mickey
Freeman, Mona
Freeman, Y. Frank
Frome, Milton
Frontier Hotel (Las Vegas)
Funke, Lewis
Funny Bones (Lewis film)
Furmanek, Bob
Gabor, Eva
Gabor, Zsa Zsa
Gannon, Al
Garcia, Jerry
Gardella, Kay
Gardiner, Reginald
Gardner, Gerald
Garland, Judy
Garms, Lee
Garrett, Thomas “Snuff”
Gar-Ron Productions
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Gaynor, Mitzi
Gehman, Richard
Geisha Boy, The (Lewis film)
Gelbart, Larry
Gerard, Michel
Gerard, Tillie and Jimmy
German-American Bund
Gershwin, Jerry
Giancana, Sam
Gibson, Henry
Gillette, George
Glass Hat nightclub (NYC)
Gleason, Jackie
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gluck, Herb
Glucksman, Ernest
Gobel, George
Godard, Jean-Luc
Golan, Gila
Goldberg, Whoopi
Goldenson, Leonard
Goldstein, Ruby
Goodman, Lee
Gorin, Igor
Gorme, Eydie
Gorney, Jay
Gorshin, Frank
Gould, Jack
Gould, Raymond
Grable, Betty
Graham, Sheila
Graham, Virginia
Granoff, Bud
Grateful Dead
Gray, Barry
Gray, Mack “Killer”
Gray, Pete
Grazer, Brian
Green, Abel
Green, Jack L.
Greenbaum, Gus
Greshler, Abner (Abbey) J.
financial dealings
and Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis, separation from
as producer
seeding the audience
Greshler, Violet
Griffin, Merv
Gross, Harry
Gumbel, Bryant
Halsman, Phillippe
Hamilton, Neil
Hammer, Stephen
Hammerstein, Oscar
Harburg, Yip
Hardin, Glen D.
Hardly Working (Lewis film)
Harrah’s (Lake Tahoe)
Harris, Phil
Harry James orchestra
Hart, Moss
Hartman, David
Hartman, Edmund
Havana-Madrid nightclub (NYC)
Haver, June
Hawks, Howard
Hayakawa, Sessue
Hayes, Harold
Hazen, Joseph
Head, Edith
Hellzapoppin’ (Broadway show)
Herman, Woody
Hersholt, Jean
Heyer, Bill
Hirano, Robert
Hirschberg, Lynn
Hoberman, Jim
Hogan, Ben
Holliman, Earl
Hollinger, Hy
Hollywood or Bust (Martin & Lewis film)
Hollywood Reporter
Holman, Russell
Hook, Line & Sinker (Lewis film)
Hope, Bob
Hopper, Hedda
Hover, Herman
Howard, Bob
Howard, Cy
Howard, Ron
Humphrey, Hal
Hunnicutt, Gail
Hurricane (NYC nightclub)
Hurt, William
Hussey, Ruth
Hutton, Betty
Hyams, Joe
Hyer, Martha
I Laffed Till I Cried: Thirty-Six Years of Marriage to Jerry Lewis (Patti Lewis’s autobiography)
“I’ll Always Love You” (Martin recording)
Ince, Thomas
Instruction Book for Being a Person (Lewis book)
International Herald Tribune
Irvington (New Jersey), anti-Semitism in
Isaacman, Alan L.
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Lewis film cameo)
It’s Only Money (Lewis film)
“I’ve Always Been Scared” (Lewis/Davidson Look article)
Jahr, Cliff
Janover, Michael
Jarrod, Dick
Jazz Singer, The (Jolson film)
Jazz Singer, The (Lewis TV version)
Jazz Singer, The (Neil Diamond TV version)
Jenkins, Dan
Jerry Lewis Cinema Corporation
lawsuits against
Jerry Lewis in Person (Lewis autobiography)
Jerry Lewis Just Sings (Lewis album)
Jerry Lewis Playhouse (Brown’s Hotel)
Jerry Lewis Productions. See under Paramount Pictures
“Jerry Lewis Show, The” (ABC)
and network censors
“Jerry Lewis Show, The” (Metromedia)
“Jerry Lewis Show, The” (NBC)
Jerry Lewis Theater (Hollywood)
Jerry Lewis’s restaurant (Sunset Strip)
“Jerry’s Kids”
Jerry’s Orphans
Jessel, George
Jewish comedians as directors
Jewish immigrants and show business
See also anti-Semitism
Jimmy Dorsey band
Johnson, Chick
Johnson, Lyndon
Jolson, Al
Jones, Jack
Jones, Paul
Journigan, James
Julian, Emilio
Jumping Jacks (Martin & Lewis film)
June Taylor Dancers
Kael, Pauline
Kagan, Jeremy
Kahn, George
Kahn, Madeline
Kallen, Kitty
Kanter, Jay
Kantor, Hal
Karp, Jack
Karras, Alex
Katz, Harry (uncle)
Katz, Judy (cousin)
murder of
Katz, Marshall (cousin)
Katz, Natalie (cousin)
Katz, Rose Brodsky (aunt)
Kaye, Bob
Kaye, Danny
Kaye, Irving (“Googs”)
as Jerry’s manager
Kazan, Lainie
Keaton, Buster
Keeler, Ruby
Keller, Emma
Keller, Jack
Kelly, Grace
Kelly, Kevin
Kelly, Wallace
Kemp, Evan J., Jr.
Kennedy, John F.
birthday party (White House)
Kenney, Stuart
Kiel, Richard
Kilgallen, Dorothy
King, Alan
King, Larry
King, Sonny
King of Comedy, The (Lewis film)
Kirk, Phyllis
Kirkwood, Jim
Kiss Me, Stupid (Martin film)
Kissel, Howard
Kleiser, Randy
Knight, Arthur
Kogan, Jack
Kooper, Al
Korshak, Sidney
Kramer, Stanley
Kroll, Jack
Krupa, Gene
Kuhn, Fritz
Kusturica, Emir
LADIES (“Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane”)
Ladies’ Man, The (Lewis film)
the set
Lanchester, Elsa
Land, Lor-Ann
Landis, John
Lane, Abbe
Langdon, Harry
Lastfogle, Abe
“Late Night with David Letterman”
Latin Casino (Philadelphia)
Laurel, Stan
Laurel and Hardy
Lawford, Peter
Lawrence, Steve
Lazarus, Emma
Lear, Norman
Lee, Christopher
Lee, Kathryn
Lee, Lee Ann
Lee, Peggy
Legrand, Michel
Leigh, Carolyn
Leigh, Janet
Leigh, Suzanna
LeMelle, Wilbert J.
Leonard, Jack E.
Leonard, Sheldon
Lessing, Norman
Lester, Buddy
Letterman, David
Levitch, Danny. See Lewis, Danny
Levitch, Gertrude (Jerry’s aunt)
Levitch, Hannah (Jerry’s grandmother)
Levitch, Morris (Jerry’s grandfather)
Levitch, Jerome. See Lewis, Jerry
Levitch, Rachel (“Rae”) Brodsky. See Lewis, Rae
Levy, Dr. Marvin
Levy, Parke
Lewis, Anthony Joseph (Jerry and Patti’s son)
and the divorce
relations with father
religion
telethon participation
Lewis, Christopher Joseph (Jerry and Patti’s son)
career
and the divorce
relations with father
religion
Lewis, Danielle Sarah (Jerry and Danielle’s daughter)
Lewis, Danny (father)
career
health and death
and Jerry’s career
as Jerry’s father
cast in Jerry’s projects
reviews and press
and women
Lewis, Gary Harold Lee (Jerry and Patti’s son)
and the divorce
Gary and the Playboys
on “Hullabaloo”
military career
as a performer
recording and singing career
relations with father
religion
“This Diamond Ring”
Lewis, Jerry
bar mitzvah
childhood
education (general)
education (Jewish)
family
4-F status
name
Lewis, Jerry (career)
agents and managers. See also MCA; William Morris Agency
appearance
awards and honors
catch-phrases and stock-phrases
Charlie Chaplin, influence of
as a clown
comic persona, ix
Dean Martin, friction, breakup and feud
Dean Martin, reconciliation with
earnings and finances. See also Jerry Lewis Cinema Corporation
and England
fan clubs and
and gangsters
influence of, x–xi
influences on
and Milton Berle
production company
professional behavior and temperament
and the Rat Pack
work habits
and writers
Lewis, Jerry (clubs and stage)
and Abner Greshler
Abner Greshler, separation from
burlesque circuit
club act
debut
haircut
lip-synching
and the phrase “ladies and gentlemen”
seeding the audience
“Sex and Slapstick”
singing Jolson songs
as a solo act
tours (national and international)
Lewis, Jerry (clubs and stage: venues)
Ambassador Hotel (Catskills)
Arthur Hotel
Bally’s Hotel (Las Vegas)
Brown’s Hotel (New York State)
Caesar’s Palace (Las Vegas)
Chez Paree (Chicago)
Damn Yankees (Broadway show)
Deauville Hotel (Miami)
500 Club (Atlantic City)
Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami)
Frontier Hotel (Las Vegas)
Glass Hat nightclub (NYC)
Goodwin Stadium (ASU)
Greek Theater (Los Angeles)
Harrah’s (Lake Tahoe)
Hellzapoppin’ (Broadway show)
JFK birthday party (White House)
Moulin Rouge (Hollywood)
Newark YMHA
Palace Theater (NYC)
Palmer House (Chicago)
RKO Palace (NYC)
SAG testimonial dinner
Sands Hotel (Las Vegas)
USO tour
Lewis, Jerry (clubs and stage) (with Dean Martin)
Beachcomber Club (Miami)
Chez Paree (Chicago)
Ciro’s nightclub (Hollywood)
Copacabana nightclub (NYC)
Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas)
Havana-Madrid nightclub (NYC)
Martin-Lewis Day (Atlantic City)
meeting Martin
Palladium (London)
Paramount Theater (NYC)
Riviera nightclub (New Jersey)
Roxy Theater (NYC)
Sands (Las Vegas)
Slapsie Maxie’s Café (Los Angeles)
Lewis, Jerry (films)
Abner Greshler and
Acapulco Film Festival
assuming a female role
cameo appearances
Cannes Film Festival
The Catcher in the Rye
The Day the Clown Cried
and Frank Tashlin
French appreciation of
Funny Bones
and Hal Wallis
Hal Wallis, problems with
home movies (Gar-Ron Productions)
Jerry Lewis Camera Exchange
and Mitchell and Petrillo
moviemaking, interest in
Par ou t’es rentre? On t’as vu Sortir
Portnoy’s Complaint
Retenez Moi … ou je fais un malheur
retrospective
screen tests
“That’s Life”
USC film lectures
video assist
See also Columbia Pictures; Paramount Pictures (Jerry Lewis Production); Paramount Pictures (York Productions); Serendipity; Twentieth Century Fox; United Artists; Wallis-Hazen
Lewis, Jerry (films as director)
The Bellboy
The Big Mouth
Boy
The Errand Boy
The Family Jewels
Hardly Working
The Ladies’ Man
The Nutty Professor
One More Time
The Patsy
Smorgasbord
Three on a Couch
Which Way to the Front?
Lewis, Jerry (films as producer)
The Bellboy
The Big Mouth
Cinderfella
The Delicate Delinquent
The Errand Boy
The Family Jewels
The Geisha Boy
Hook, Line & Sinker
The Ladies’ Man
The Nutty Professor
The Patsy
Rock-a-bye Baby
Three on a Couch
Which Way to the Front?
Lewis, Jerry (films as writer)
The Bellboy
The Big Mouth
The Errand Boy
The Family Jewels
Hardly Working
The Ladies’ Man
The Nutty Professor
The Patsy
Smorgasbord
Lewis, Jerry (films with Dean Martin)
Artists and Models
Boeing Boeing
The Disorderly Orderly
Don’t Give Up the Ship
It’s Only Money
Jumping Jacks
Hollywood or Bust
Money From Home
My Friend Irma
My Friend Irma Goes Abroad
My Friend Irma Goes West
Sailor Beware
The Sad Sack
Scared Stiff
The Stooge
That’s My Boy
Three Ring Circus
Visit to a Small Planet
Who’s Minding the Store?
See also Wallis-Hazen; York Productions
Lewis, Jerry (philanthropy)
Damon Runyon Memorial Fund benefit
Muscular Dystrophy (MDA)
Red Cross benefit (Irvington)
telethon, coining of the term
Lewis, Jerry (press and public relations)
breakup with Martin
the British press
critics and journalists, relations with
French film press
interviews
Little Boy Blue
merchandizing
negative press
The Nutty Professor promo tour
publicists. See Flood, Jim; Keller, Jack; Skidmore, Fred
publicity and promotions
trade papers ads
Lewis, Jerry (press: reviews)
club act (solo)
club act (with Martin)
film (solo)
film (with Martin)
MDA telethon
television and radio (solo)
television and radio (with Martin)
theater
Lewis, Jerry (private life)
accident
addiction to drugs
and alcohol
and anti-Semitism
children, relationship with
and cigarettes
collections
“creed book”
FBI files
gambling
generosity and gift giving
health
hotel robbery
insecurity and loneliness of
intruders and stalkers
parents, relationship with
personality
pinky ring
and psychiatry
sexual boasting and sexism
suicide attempt
wardrobe
and women
Lewis, Jerry (private life: marriage to Patti)
divorce
marital problems
meeting
wedding
wedding (Jewish)
wedding band
Lewis, Jerry (private life: marriage to SanDee)
adopted daughter
meeting
wedding
Lewis, Jerry (private life: residences and property)
Amalfi Drive house (Pacific Palisades)
boats
boats (ship wreck)
KJPL radio station
Lehigh Avenue apartment (Newark, N.J.)
1110 Tower Road (Beverly Hills)
Palm Springs vacation home
St. Cloud Road (Bel Air)
Lewis, Jerry (recordings)
Capitol Records
Decca Records
Jerry Lewis Just Sings
“Rock-a-Bye”
Lewis, Jerry (recordings with Dean Martin)
Capitol Records
“That Certain Party”
“The Money Song”
Lewis, Jerry (television and radio)
ABC TV shows
Academy Awards broadcast (1956)
“Comic Relief”
“Ed Sullivan Show”
Emmy Awards broadcast
Fight for Life (NBC TV film)
guest appearances
“Hullabaloo”
The Jazz Singer
“The Jerry Lewis Show” (ABC)
“The Jerry Lewis Show” (Metromedia)
“The Jerry Lewis Show” (NBC)
KJPL radio station
“Late Night with David Letterman”
NBC TV shows
“Permanent Waves”
“The Phil Donahue Show”
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“The Tonight Show” (guest host)
“Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?!” (ABC animated series)
“Wiseguy” episodes
Lewis, Jerry (television and radio with Dean Martin)
“The Colgate Comedy Hour”
guest appearances
“The Martin and Lewis Show” (NBC radio)
“Toast of the Town” (TV show)
writer’s contract
Lewis, Joseph Christopher (Jerry and Patti’s son)
and the divorce
relations with father
religion
telethon participation
Lewis, Kimberly (Anthony and Sharon’s daughter)
Lewis, Marlo
Lewis, Patti (Jerry’s 1st wife)
autobiography
career
childhood
and Dean Martin
divorce
as Gary’s manager
health
and Jerry’s parents
Jerry and SanDee’s wedding
LADIES (“Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane”)
marital problems
marriage
meeting Jerry
religion
wedding
wedding (Jewish)
Lewis, Rae (mother)
death
and Jerry
and Jerry and Patti’s marriage
and Jimmy Ritz
Lewis, Ronald Stephen (Jerry and Patti’s son)
and the divorce
relations with father
religion
telethon participation
Lewis, SanDee (Jerry’s 2nd wife)
adopted daughter
career
wedding
Lewis, Sara Jane (Jinky) (Gary’s wife)
Lewis, Sarah Jane (Gary and Jinky’s daughter)
Lewis, Scott Anthony (Jerry and Patti’s son)
career
and the divorce
relations with father
religion
Lewis, Sharon (Anthony’s wife)
Lidsky, Isaac
Life magazine
L’il Abner (Lewis film cameo)
Limelight (Chaplin film)
Lindberg, Sven
Linkletter, Art
Linn, Edward
List, Eugene
Living It Up (Martin & Lewis film)
Lloyd, Emily
Logan, Joshua
London Sunday Times
Look magazine
Lopez, Angel
Loren, Sophia
Lorre, Peter
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles magazine
Los Angeles Mirror
Los Angeles Mirror News
Los Angeles Times
Low, Warren
Lowenstein, Alan
Lucas, George
Luft, Sid
Lugosi, Bela
Lund, Deanna
Lund, John
Luster, Dr. Henry
Lynn, Diana
Lyon, Herb
Lyons, Arthur
Lyons, Leonard
McCall’s magazine
McCartney, Paul
McCoo, Marilyn
McDonald, Bill
McDonald, Elizabeth. See Martin, Elizabeth
McDonald, Frank
McDonald, Marie
McGavin, Darren
McGiver, John
McGovern, Maureen
McGrady, Mike
McGuire, Don
McInerney, Jack
McIntire, John
McKay, Ernie
Mackin, Tom
MacLaine, Shirley
McMahon, Ed
MacMichael, Florence
McNamara, James
McNear, Howard
Mainstream magazine
Malle, Louis
Malone, Dorothy
Manners, Jayne
Mansfield, Jayne
Marceau, Marcel
Marcellino, Muzzy
Marsalis, Wynton
Marshall, George
Marshall, Marion
Mart, Paul
Martin, Dean
as a boxer (Kid Crochet)
as a dealer
education
4-F status
Martin, Dean (career)
dealing with hecklers
Dean Martin Day (Steubenville)
earnings, selling percentages of
earnings and finances
Jerry Lewis, friction, breakup and feud
Jerry Lewis, reconciliation with
Havana-Madrid nightclub (NYC)
managers and agents
name
nose job
and organized crime
reviews and press
as a singer
stage persona
Martin, Dean (clubs and stage) (with Jerry Lewis)
Beachcomber Club (Miami)
Ciro’s nightclub (Hollywood)
Copacabana nightclub (NYC)
500 Club (Atlantic City)
Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas)
Havana-Madrid nightclub (NYC)
Martin-Lewis Day (Atlantic City)
Palladium (London)
Paramount Theater (NYC)
Riviera nightclub (New Jersey)
Roxy Theater (NYC)
Sands (Las Vegas)
Slapsie Maxie’s Café (Los Angeles)
Martin, Dean (films with Lewis)
Artists and Models
Boeing Boeing
The Disorderly Orderly
Don’t Give Up the Ship
It’s Only Money
Jumping Jacks
Hollywood or Bust
Money From Home
My Friend Irma
My Friend Irma Goes Abroad
My Friend Irma Goes West
Sailor Beware
The Sad Sack
Scared Stiff
screen tests
The Stooge
That’s My Boy
Three Ring Circus
Visit to a Small Planet
Who’s Minding the Store?
See also Wallis-Hazen; York Productions
Martin, Dean (films without Lewis)
Martin, Dean (recordings)
“I’ll Always Love You”
“Memories Are Made of This”
“The Money Song”
“That Certain Party”
“That’s Amore”
Martin, Dean (television and radio)
Academy Awards broadcast (1956)
“The Colgate Comedy Hour”
guest appearances
“Songs by Dean Martin” (radio show)
“Toast of the Town” (TV show)
Martin, Dean (private life)
and alcohol
appearance
marital problems (Betty)
marriage (Betty)
marriage (Jeanne)
personality
temperament
wardrobe
and women
Martin, Dean Paul, Jr. (Dean and Jeanne’s son)
Martin, Dick
Martin, Elizabeth (Betty) (Dean’s 1st wife)
divorce
marriage
Martin, Jeanne (Dean’s 2nd wife)
marital problems
Martin, Stephen Craig (Dean and Betty’s son)
Martin, Tony
Martin-Lewis Day (Atlantic City)
Martin and Rossi
Martini, Nino
Marx, Arthur
Marx, Groucho
Marx, Harpo
Marx Brothers
Massey, Daria
Matthews, Chris
Maxwell, Marilyn
Maxwell, Mitchell
Mayehoff, Eddie
Mayer, Louis B.
MCA (talent agency)
and Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis, breakup of act
Martin and Lewis’s NBC contract
Martin and Lewis’s Wallis-Hazen contract
Medrek, William
Melville, Anne-Marie
Memphis Business Journal
Merman, Ethel
Merrill, Dina
Merrill, Robert
Messinger, Lillian
Mexico City El Heraldo newspaper
Meyer, Marvin
Millar, Marjie
Miller, Glen
Miller, Jonathan
Miller, Richard
Miller, Sidney
Millikan, John B.
Minardi, Loel
Minnelli, Liza
Minnelli, Vincente
Minskoff, Jerome
Minskoff, Maggie
Miranda, Carmen
Missildine, W. Hugh
Mitchell, Duke
Mitchell and Petrillo
Mitterand, François
Mobley, Mary Ann
Modern Times (Chaplin film)
Moffitt, Jack
Moiseyev Dancers
Monaster, Nate
Money From Home (Martin & Lewis film)
Money magazine
“Money Song, The” (Martin and Lewis recording)
Monroe, Marilyn
Montreal Gazette
Moore, Del
Moore, Kingman
Moore, Tom
Moorehead, Agnes
Moorman, Charlotte
Morita, Pat
Morrow, Jeff
Mortimer, Lee
Motion Picture Herald
Moulin Rouge (Hollywood)
Mouskouri, Nana
Movie Stars Parade
Mr. Bascom (Great Dane)
Mr. Saturday Night (Lewis film cameo)
Murphy, Eddie
Murray, Jan
Murray, Toni
Murrow, Edward R.
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)
contributions
controversy and criticism
financial dealings, criticism of
guests
Jerry Lewis’s Parade article
“Jerry’s Kids”
Jerry’s Orphans
“The Phil Donahue Show”
press
scientific successes
telethons
See also Cohen, Paul; Delgado, Mucio; Ross, Bob; Weaver, Pat; Zigouras, Art
My Friend Irma (Martin & Lewis film)
My Friend Irma Goes West (Martin & Lewis film)
Nat Brandwynne orchestra
Nathan, Paul
National Enquirer
NBC
“The Colgate Comedy Hour”
Fight for Life (Lewis TV film)
and Jerry Lewis
“The Jerry Lewis Show”
Martin and Lewis’s contract
“The Martin and Lewis Show” (radio)
Nelson, Byron
Nelson, Lori
Nelson, Peter
Nelson, Ralph
New Dollys
New York Daily News
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal American
New York magazine
New York Newsday
New York Post
New York Times
New York World Telegram
New Yorker magazine
Newark (New Jersey), anti-Semitism in
Newark Evening News
Newell, Vivian
Newman, Lionel
News Chronicle (London)
Newsday
Newsweek magazine
Niven, David
Norton, Elliot
Nutty Professor, The (Lewis film)
promo tour
reference to Dean Martin
Nutty Professor, The, II
sequels and remakes
Nuxhall, Joe
O’Brien, Erin
O’Brien, Hugh
O’Brien, Jack
O’Brien, Joan
O’Connor, Basil
O’Connor, Donald
O’Curran, Charlie
Oliver, Susan
Olsen, Ole
One More Time (film, d: Lewis)
Orgolini, Arnold
Orlando, Tony
Osmond Brothers
Ossard, Claudie
Paar, Jack
Palace Theater (NYC)
Palcy, Euzhan
Palladium (London)
Palme, Ulf
Palmer, Patti. See Lewis, Patti
Palmer House (Chicago)
Panama, Norman
Par ou t’es rentre? On t’as vu Sortir (Lewis film)
Parade magazine
Paramount Pictures
contract with Lewis
Lewis film grosses
See also Wallis-Hazen
Paramount Pictures (Jerry Lewis Productions)
corporate entities
costs and earnings
lawsuits
motto
offices
product tie–ins
Paramount Pictures (Jerry Lewis Productions: films)
The Bellboy
Cinderfella
The Delicate Delinquent
The Errand Boy
The Family Jewels
The Geisha Boy
The Ladies’ Man
The Nutty Professor
The Patsy
Rock-a-bye Baby
Paramount Pictures (York Productions)
contract with Lewis
costs and earnings
lawsuits
Paramount Pictures (York Productions: films)
Boeing Boeing
The Disorderly Orderly
It’s Only Money
Who’s Minding the Store?
Paramount Pictures (York Productions: films) (with Martin and Lewis)
At War with the Army
The Caddy
Living It Up
Pardners
You’re Never Too Young
Paramount Theater (NYC)
Pardners (Martin & Lewis film)
Paris, Jerry
Parnell, Val
Parrish, Leslie
Parsons, Geoffrey
Parsons, Louella
Pasternak, Joe
Patsy, The (Lewis film)
Paul, Steven
Paul Tremain and his Band from Lonely Acres
Payne, Freda
Payne, John
Pearce, Jacqueline
Pearl, Ralph
Pearson, Drew
Peck, Gregory
Penn, Arthur
Penthouse magazine
Pereira, Hal
Perlberg, William
Perry, Lou
Pertwee, Michael
Petrillo, Sammy
Pevney, Joseph
Phillips, Arthur
Piastro, Dianne B.
Picon, Molly
Pierre (chimpanzee)
Piscopo, Joe
Pitnick, Sandra. See Lewis, SanDee
Platt, Oliver
Pleshette, Suzanne
Podell, Jules
Porizkova, Paulina
Portnoy’s Complaint (film version)
Positif (French film journal)
Powell, Dick
Powers, James
Presley, Elvis
Pride, Christopher
Proctor, Joseph Ford
Proser, Monte
Proux, Joe
Quattrone, Cosmo
Quick magazine
Rackin, Martin
Radar, Dotson
Rafferty, Terrence
Raft, George
Ramsey, Al
Randall, Jack
Raphaelson, Samson
Ray, Nicholas
Ray Bloch orchestra
Raymie (film w. Lewis title song)
Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, Ronald
Redgrave, Lynn
Reed, Donna
Reginelli, Marco
Reilly, Betty
Reiner, Rob
Reiser, Paul
Renoir, Jean
Retenez Moi … ou je fais un malheur (Lewis film)
Rice, Cathy
Rich, John
Richards, David
Richards, Dick
Richman, Bob
Richmond, Bill
Rickles, Don
Ritz, Al
Ritz, Harry
Ritz, Jimmy
Ritz Brothers
Riviera nightclub (New Jersey)
Road to Bali, The (Martin & Lewis film cameo)
Roberts, Oral
Robrahn, Judge Reese
Rochester Daily Democrat-Chronicle
“Rock-a-Bye” (Lewis recording)
Rockwell, Norman
Rodgers, Richard
Rolling Stone
Rooney, Mickey
Rose, Billy
Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Rosenbloom, Slapsie Maxie
Ross, Bob
Ross, Joe E.
Ross, John
Roth, Broadway Sam
Rothberg, Sam (step-grandfather)
Rothberg, Sarah Brodsky (grandmother)
Routledge, Patricia
Rowan, Dan
Roxy Theater (NYC)
Rubirosa, Porfirio
Rudloff, Tex
Rudolph, Jerry
Ruman, Sig
Russell, Leon
Ryan, Ray
Rydell, Bobby
Sachs, Mannie
Sad Sack, The (Lewis film)
Saddler, Donald
SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
testimonial dinner for Jean Hersholt
Sahl, Mort
St. John, Jill
Sailor Beware (Martin & Lewis film)
Sakata, Harold (“Odd Job”)
Salinger, J. D.
Salk, Jonas
San Francisco Chronicle
Sanders, Harlan
Sands, Sonny
Sands Hotel (Las Vegas)
Saper, Jack
Sarnoff, Bob
Sarris, Andrew
Saturday Evening Post magazine
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Saval, Dany
Scared Stiff (Martin & Lewis film)
Schaefer, Fred
Scharf, Walter
Schary, Dore
Scheuer, Phillip K.
Schickel, Richard
Schildkraut, Joseph
Schindler, Merrill
Schine, G. David
Schlatter, George
Schlesinger, Leon
Schmidt, Artie
Schmidtmer, Christiane
Schoenfeld, Joe
Schreiber, Taft
Schwartz, David
Schwartz, Sol A.
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, John L.
Scott, Lizabeth
Scott, Vernon
Scott, Zachary
Screen Associates
Screen Life
Sedway, Moe
Seidelman, Susan
Selznick, David O.
Semom, Larry
Serendipity
Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (Lewis film)
Seven Ashtons
Shadyac, Tom
Shapiro, Bob
Shapiro, Danny
Shapiro, Lawrence
Shatner, William
Shaughnessy, Mickey
Shawn, Dick
Shearer, Harry
Sheinberg, Sidney
Sheldon, Gene
Sheldon, Sidney
Shenson, Walter
Shepard, Scott
Sherman, Alan
Sherry, Herb
Shore, Dinah
Shore, Pauly
Shore, Sammy
show business and Jewish immigrants
Siegel, Bugsy
Silber, John R.
Silva, Henry
Silver, Ron
Silvers, Phil
Silvers, Sid
Simmons, Ed
Sinatra, Frank, the Rat Pack
Skelton, Red
Skidmore, Fred
Skinner, Samuel
Skolsky, Sidney
Slapsie Maxie’s Café (Los Angeles)
Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (Lewis film)
Sloane, Everett
Smirnoff, Yakov
Smith, Bill
Smith, Lee
Smith, Liz
Smithline, Norman “Smitty”
Smorgasbord (a.k.a. Cracking Up) (Lewis film)
Snead, Sam
Snyder, Jimmy “the Greek”
Snyder, Tom
Sobol, Louis
Soho Weekly News
Somers, Suzanne
Sonny and Cher
Spencer, Diana
Spielberg, Steven
Stabile, Claudia
Stabile, Dick
Stabile, Joe
Stack, Robert
Stanley, Pat
Starr, Kay
Staub, Ralph
Stebbins, Helene
Stein, Dr. Bill
Stein, Jules
Steinman, Harry
Stern, Alan
Steve and Eydie
Stevens, Connie
Stevens, Kay
Stevens, Stella
Stewart, James
Stone, Harold J.
Stooge, The (Martin & Lewis film)
Storch, Larry
Strauss, Robert
Strong, Leonard
Sturges, Preston
Styne, Jule
Sullivan, Ed
See also “Ed Sullivan Show;” “Toast of the Town”
Susskind, David
Take the Money and Run (Allen film)
Tartikoff, Brandon
Tashlin, Frank
Tati, Jacques
Taurog, Norman
Taylor, Lili
Ted Fio Rito orchestra
telethon, coining of the term
Terry-Thomas
Tex Beneke’s orchestra
“That Certain Party” (Martin & Lewis recording)
That Kid (Gehman)
“That’s Amore” (Martin recording)
That’s My Boy (Martin & Lewis film)
Thomas, Danny
Thompson, Howard
Thomson, David
Thornburgh, Richard
Three on a Couch (Lewis film)
Three Ring Circus (Martin & Lewis film)
Tillis, Mel
Time magazine
To Catch a Cop. See Retenez Moi … ou je fais un malheur
“Toast of the Town” (Ed Sullivan TV show). See also “Ed Sullivan Show”
“Tonight Show, The”
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Tormé, Mel
Total Film-maker, The (Lewis/USC film lectures)
Townsend, Scott
Traubel, Helen
Truffaut, François
Tucker, Sophie
tummlers and headliners
Tune, Tommy
Turckheim, Charlotte de
Turner, John
Turner, Lana
TV Guide
TV Story
Twentieth Century Fox
costs and earnings
Twentieth Century Fox (films with Lewis)
Hardly Working
The King of Comedy
Way … Way Out
Unger, Joe
United Artists (films with Lewis) One More Time
UPI (United Press International)
Van Dyke, Dick
Van Heusen, Jimmy
Van Horne, Harriet
Vanity Fair
Variety
Vaughan, Sarah
Vernon, Jackie
Vidal, Gore
Vilialonga, Marthe
Village Voice newspaper
Vincent, Romo
Visit to a Small Planet (Lewis film)
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wachsberger, Nathan
Wagner, Robin
Wakl, Ken
Wald, Jerry
Walker, Dave
Walker, Hal
Wallis, Hal
and Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, problems with
Martin and Lewis films, post-breakup
“The Martin and Lewis Story”
and Mitchell and Petrillo
as producer
Wallis-Hazen (production company)
contracts
costs and earnings
properties under development
Wallis-Hazen (production company: films)
Artists and Models
Don’t Give Up the Ship
Jumping Jacks
Hollywood or Bust
Money From Home
My Friend Irma
My Friend Irma Goes Abroad
My Friend Irma Goes West
Sailor Beware
The Sad Sack
Scared Stiff
The Stooge
That’s My Boy
Three Ring Circus
Visit to a Small Planet
Walters, Patti and Teddy
Walsh, Charles
Walston, Ray
Warner, Harry
Warner, Jack
Warner, Sam
Warner Brothers (films with Lewis)
Arizona Dream
Cookie
Smorgasbord
Which Way to the Front?
Warren, Harry
Warwick, Dionne
Washington Star
Wasserman, Lew
Watkins, Sammy
Watson, Dr. Blake
Way … Way Out (Lewis film)
Wayne, David
Weaver, Pat
Weinberg, Jerry
Weisenthal, Bernie (Jerry’s uncle)
Weisenthal, Elizabeth (“Buhddie”) Brodsky (Jerry’s aunt)
Weitman, Bob
Welles, Orson
Werblin, Sonny
Which Way to the Front? (Lewis film)
White, Jesse
White, Joshua
White, Paul Dudley
Who’s Minding the Store? (Lewis film)
Wiere Brothers
Wilder, Billy
Wiles, Rusty
Wilk, Max
“Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?!” (ABC animated series)
William Morris Agency
Williams, Harrison A.
Williams, Joe
Williams, John
Williams, Robin
Wilson, Earl
Wilson, Flip
Wilson, Marie
Winchell, Walter
Winer, Linda
Winston, Archer
Winters, Shelley
Wolf, Irvin
Wolper, Dave
Wood, John
Woodcock, John
Woodfield, William
Wright, Jim
Wright, Maggie
Wright, Steven
Wyler, William
Wynn, Ed
Wynn, Keenan
Yes I Can! (Davis, Jr.)
Yoelson, Rabbi Moshe Reuben
York Productions. See under Paramount Pictures
Yorkin, Bud
Youngman, Henry
Your Inner Child of the Past (Missildine)
You’re Never Too Young (Martin & Lewis film)
Brown’s Hotel premiere
Zanuck, Darryl
Zanuck, Richard
Zigouras, Art
Zimmerman, Paul
Zukor, Adolph