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Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312168780
A portrait of one of America's most influential comedians analyzes the complex, sometimes disturbing world of Jerry Lewis, from his rise to fame and his philanthropic work to the dark side of his career and personal life
Author : Rae Beth Gordon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0804738947
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."
Author : James L. Neibaur,Ted Okuda
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786475005
Using interviews with Jerry Lewis and many of his co-stars, this book analyzes his collaborative efforts with Dean Martin, his subsequent solo work, his writing and directorial careers, and later movies such as Hardly Working (1979) and The King of Comedy (1982). Comprehensive data are provided for each of the films, with cast and production credits, studio, release date, and running time. Lewis's own reflections on his work are included for many of the entries.
Author : Chris Fujiwara
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252034978
The premier study of an incomparable American director
Author : Chris Fujiwara
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252091346
Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an ideal masculine image and an anarchic, manic acting out of the inability to assume this image. Films such as The Bellboy, The Errand Boy, Three on a Couch, and The Big Mouth present a series of thematic variations on this tension, in which such questions as how to be a man, how to be popular, and how to maintain relationships are posed within frameworks that set up a liberating and exhilarating confusion of roles and norms. The Nutty Professor and The Patsy are especially profound and painful examinations of the difficulty experienced by Lewis's character in reconciling loving himself and being loved by others. With sharp, concise observations, Chris Fujiwara examines this visionary director of self-referential comedic masterpieces. The book also includes an enlightening interview with Lewis that offers unique commentary on the creation and study of comedy.
Author : Jerry Lewis
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015002167792
A frank, personal story of the joys and pitfalls of making movies by a world famous film-maker.
Author : James R. Blackman
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0394841557
Presents 40 tricks which can be performed with simple materials such as coins, matches, and water glasses.
Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814767054
Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the motion pictures he has directed reveal significant film-making talents, and show him to be what he has called himself, a "Total Film-Maker." Yet his work has been frequently derided by American critics. Book jacket.
Author : Jerry Lewis,James Kaplan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447204824
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.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062078230
New York Times Bestseller The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis—and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin—his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock—and survived it all to be hailed as “one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience.” Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer’s life as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis’s own words, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, , this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page.
Author : KRUTNIK FRANK
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042482904
Examining such early '60s solo works as The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor, and The Patsy, Krutnik explores the ways in which Lewis both dismantled the conventions of film comedy and manipulated the codes of his public identity. Charting the decline of Lewis's film career and his simultaneous rise to fame as the emotional powerhouse of the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the author also traces Lewis's attempt to create a serious, adult image to replace that of the aging 'kid'"--Jacket.
Author : Christopher J. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943901937
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210012235832
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Author : J.D. Davis
Publisher : BrownBooks.ORM
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612540757
“Engaging . . . [a] biography of three men bound by blood, music, and a lifelong struggle to strike a balance between the sacred and secular.”—Publishers Weekly Three cousins, inseparably bonded through music. Each became a star; their story would become a legend. J. D. Davis’s enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family. Davis recreates the irresistible and life-changing power of music that surrounded the cousins as boys and shaped their engagingly distinct paths to fame. With three personal journeys set alongside important landmarks in pop-culture history, Davis presents a unique tale of American music centered on the trials, tribulations, and achievements of three men who remain truly Unconquered. A ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention for Biography “This is a good read, and not just for the hard-core fan. It will appeal to anyone interested in the dynamics of rock ’n’ roll, country music, and evangelical Christianity and what happens when the aesthetics and lifestyles of those three worlds collide. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “God, the devil, and everything in between. This book is a great representation of the duality plane on which we exist.'”—Leon Russell, legendary musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member “Unconquered clearly depicts the fascinating story of three great musical artists who were cousins in real life but icons in the world of music. Each man conquered life’s roadblocks to achieve his ultimate goals.”—Tom Schedler, former Louisiana Secretary of State
