Jerry Lewis

Download or read book King of Comedy written by Shawn Levy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Jerry Lewis, discussing his varied career as a performer, director, fundraiser, and standard-setting comedian, and looking at the private man and the forces that drive him.

Download or read book Jerry Lewis written by Chris Fujiwara and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier study of an incomparable American director

Download or read book The Big Book of Tricks and Magic written by James R. Blackman and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 40 tricks which can be performed with simple materials such as coins, matches, and water glasses.

Download or read book Why the French Love Jerry Lewis written by Rae Beth Gordon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" It shows how Lewis touches a nerve in the French cultural memory because, more than any other film comic, he incarnates a distinctively French tradition of performance style."

Download or read book Dean And Me written by Jerry Lewis and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years after WWII, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis weren't only the most successful show business act in history, they were history. Starting as a fill-in for another act in Atlantic city, their improvised, anarchic routines soon sold out all the greatest venues in America. They made films, they made millions. They made a legend. But amidst the dazzling success and the late night laughter, tensions developed between the reserved straight man, Martin, and the manic goon, Lewis. When the duo, who had reinvented the comic double-act, split acrimoniously in 1956 they didn't speak to one another for the next 20 years. This is an intimate memoir of those years of fame and success by one of the only surviving legends of the rat-pack era. Jerry Lewis remembers everything - the casinos, the mobsters, the endless pranks, the cocktails, the women, the meteoric rise to stardom. Here for the first and only time and in his own inimitable, wise-cracking voice he re-lives his days of glory with Dean Martin and gives a frank account of their relationship and break-up. A hilarious ride and heart-breaking, cautionary tale of what fame and fortune can do to love and friendship.

Download or read book The Total Film-maker written by Jerry Lewis and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank, personal story of the joys and pitfalls of making movies by a world famous film-maker.

Download or read book Great Balls of Fire written by Myra Lewis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: