“He’d say, ‘Most people are at home watching TV, I am at home watching ... The fascinating backstory: Lewis promised Paramount he would deliver a Jerry Lewis film for a 1960 summer release ...

Ten months after comedy legend Jerry Lewis died at ... His son Chris Lewis, who has overseen the distribution of his father’s movies and TV work since 1995 and has been involved in the ...

Lewis died of natural causes in 2017, at age 91. “He had complete autonomy over his movies ... of Jerry’s girls” and didn’t believe her story about him seeing her perform on TV.

Jerry Lewis ... work are proof that Lewis was, as the French would later claim, a revolutionary auteur. Lewis runs amok in mail room when the financially strapped Paramount Pictures hires him ...

a wildly successful supplier of quality TV movies, was headquartered at Paramount and was the partnership of Gerald Abrams and Jerry Isenberg. They were major Lewis fans and treated him as a ...

The TV Answer Man –Follow me on X. Paramount Plus with Showtime ... of landing a stand-up spot on a late-night talk show. Jerry Lewis plays the talk show host with low-key charisma and De ...

Classic performances in movies like ... sign saying, ‘Jerry Lewis invented this!’” Spielberg once said. But today, in Lewis’ Las Vegas home, the Oscar that sits atop his TV isn’t for ...