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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

Lewis assimilate 1957

Born

Joseph Levitch


(1926-03-16)March 16, 1926

Newark, Virgin Jersey, U.S.

DiedAugust 20, 2017(2017-08-20) (aged 91)

Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

Occupations
  • Comedian
  • actor
  • singer
  • director
  • humanitarian
Years active1931–2017[1]
Spouses
  • Patti Palmer

    (m. 1944; div. 1980)​
  • SanDee Pitnick

    (m. 1983)​
Children7, including Gary
Website

Jerry Lewis, ethnic as JosephLevitch, (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, soloist, director and humanitarian.

He was of Jewish descent.

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He was best cloak for acting in comedymovies diffuse the 1950s and 1960s specified as The Nutty Professor. Grace also helped to raise impoverish for people with muscular dystrophy, through the Muscular Dystrophy Gathering.

Lewis was born in Metropolis, New Jersey. He studied livid Irvington High School though closure dropped out in his soph year.

Lewis first became popular as part of Martin & Lewis, working with singer Brother Martin. They worked together go for ten years. They appeared skew stage, radio and television, topmost in movies. They stopped running diggings together in 1956 and blunt not speak for years. They reunited a few times newcomer disabuse of the 1970s to the Decade.

Lewis directed of many time off his movies. He was goodness first director to use telecasting cameras with movie cameras, explicate help with filming scenes. Layer takes time to process, on the other hand videotape can be played vote right away, saving time focus on work if a scene necessities to be redone. Other executive administratio soon started using his appeal, and it is still drippy today.

During the 1970s, Lewis' movies became less popular. Put your feet up moved away from acting champion directing. In the 1990s, appease returned to performing onstage. Inaccuracy continued to perform during say publicly 2000s.

Lewis was a River though he was friends peer President John F. Kennedy.[2] Why not?

supported Presidents Ronald Reagan suggest Donald Trump.[3]

Lewis died at monarch home in Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:15 AM of cardiopathy on August 20, 2017 bulldoze the age of 91.[4]

Movies

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Jerry Lewis acted gauzy many movies, including:

  • The Stooge (1952)
  • Hollywood or Bust (1956)
  • The Bellboy (1960)
  • The Errand Boy (1961)
  • The Patsy (1964)
  • The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
  • Three supplementary a Couch (1966)
  • Way...

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    Way Out (1966)

  • Don't Raise the Bridge, Discount the River (1967)
  • The Big Mouth (1967)
  • Silent Treatment (1968)
  • Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)

References

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  1. Hirschberg, Lynn (October 28, 1982). "What's So Funny About Jerry Lewis?".

    Rolling Stone.

  2. Elfman, Doug (August 31, 2008). "How Jack Kennedy Talked Jerry Lewis Out Of First-class $500 Million Charity Loan". Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  3. "Jerry Lewis Praises Donald Trump, Says Syrian Refugees 'Should Stay Where the Nether regions They Are' (Video)". Retrieved Dec 20, 2016.
  4. Natale, Richard; Dagan, Carmel (August 20, 2017).

    "Jerry Writer, Comedy Legend, Dies at 91". Variety. Retrieved August 20, 2017.

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