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Comedy legend Jerry Lewis went on to do great things even after splitting from comedy partner Dean Martin. Umpteen viewings later, these classic comedies, each made during Jerry Lewis's 16 years as Paramount's highest-paid performer, still tickles and make me sad for the chumps who just don't understand his genius.

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'The Nutty Professor' (1963)

• The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.
• Jerry Lewis was born on March 16, 1926, in Newark. Most sources, including his 1982 autobiography, “Jerry Lewis: In Person,” give his birth name as Joseph Levitch. But Shawn Levy, author of the exhaustive 1996 biography “King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis,” unearthed a birth record that gave his first name as Jerome.

This pet project was Lewis' fourth effort as writer-director and, in cinematic terms, his best film. Almost Disney-esque next to Eddie Murphy's crude remakes, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meet Prof. Kelp and Buddy Love. Outrageous and cool with Jerry somewhat restrained, there are many great moments, like at the gym and that silly dance.

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'The Ladies' Man' (1961)

The funniest of a rich batch. Even Jerry cracks up during the most hysterical sequence, an improvised hat bit opposite a deadpan Buddy Lester. Our star-director wisely protects the laughs at the expense of all else in the loopy tale of Miss Helen Welenmelon's jilted houseboy, Herbert H. Heebert. The 'H' stands for 'Herbert.'

'The Geisha Boy' (1958)

Written and directed by Lewis' mentor, animator Frank Tashlin, the happiest Jerry heart-warmer teams an inept magician with an orphan. The bathhouse flood is as uproarious as anything ever filmed.

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'The Bellboy' (1960)

This is Jerry Lewis's silent movie. Oh, there are plenty of sounds to be heard as Stanley the mute bellhop bumbles into wild predicaments. Lewis wrote and directed his first film at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel by day, while he performed concert obligations there each night. The whole film was written, filmed and completed in just three weeks!

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'The Errand Boy' (1961)

Ace stooge Morty S. Tashman is hired by the Paramutual movie studios to spy on the staff. Morty is mostly mute and bumbles into wild predicaments. Hey, it worked the previous year -- BUT HE'S NOT A BELLHOP! Wonderful behind-the-scenes look at Paramount and the golden days before computers ripped the heart and magic from motion pictures. Jerry's famous 'Chairman of the Board' pantomime lives here.

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'It's Only Money' (1962)

Nabbed at the last minute to direct this already prepped production, Frank Tashlin returned for his sixth Jerry Lewis picture and one of their better vehicles. It's a crackerjack spoof of detective yarns with TV repairman/apprentice private eye Jerry on a quest to find the lost heir to a fortune, not knowing the lad is ... guess who? Meanwhile, swindlers and man-eating lawnmowers chase him down.

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'Who's Minding the Store?' (1963)

Jerry's a department store flunky in love with the owners' daughter (Jill St. John). He scoots through numerous duties to prove his worthiness, including dog walking, flagpole painting, and pantomiming to Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter,' but Tashlin's ultimate live-action cartoon sequence awaits with a hungry vacuum cleaner gone berserk.

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'The Disorderly Orderly' (1964)

The final Jerry Lewis-Frank Tashlin collaboration dodges the scenario's comedy-deflating obstacles of illness and depression to become a slapstick success nonetheless. Set in a fancy nursing home, Jerome, the disaster-prone aide, battles sympathy pains, a snail, and a gasping, high-speed ambulance chase.

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'Rock-A-Bye Baby' (1958)

Inspired by Preston Sturges' superlative comedy 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (1944), this first Tashlin-helmed film for the solo actor borrows almost nothing from the original story. To protect a mother's identity, Jerry struggles to raise her infant triplets, while fending off meddlers and the mom's kid sister (Connie Stevens). Cute and sentimental. Catch Gary Lewis as Jerry in the flashback.

'The Family Jewels' (1965)

A chauffeur accompanies a child-heiress when she sets out to choose her new 'father' among her uncles. Jerry plays seven characters in what is essentially an elaborate collection of sketches, the highlight of which is no-frills airline mogul/pilot, Capt. Eddie. This movie is the end of an era, as Lewis, nearly 40, segued into somewhat more mature roles with diminishing physical humor and clowning.

Retenez Moi...Ou Je Fais Un Malheur is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Michel Gerard and starring Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, and Charlotte de Turckheim. It was released on January 11, 1984 in France by the Gaumont Film Company.

Plot[edit]

Jerry Logan (Jerry Lewis) is a Las Vegas police officer who is visiting France to see his ex-wife (Charlotte de Turckheim), with whom he is still friendly. She is remarried to Laurent Martin (Michel Blanc), who is a police officer in France.

The two men do not hit it off very well at first, but eventually they team up to solve the case of some art smugglers.

Cast[edit]

• Jerry Lewis as Jerry Logan
• Michel Blanc as Laurent Martin
• Charlotte de Turckheim as Marie-Christine Martin
• Michel Peyrelon as Franz

Release[edit]

This was one of two films that Jerry Lewis made in the 1980s strictly for European release. They have never been released in the US, although it has been given at least two tentative US release titles: To Catch a Cop and The Defective Detective. Lewis has stated that as long as he has control over distribution they will never be released in the US.

References[edit]

Jerry Lewis Movies

1. ^Jerry Lewis films French box office information at Box Office Story

External links[edit]

Detective Lewis Episodes

• Retenez Moi...Ou Je Fais Un Malheur on IMDb