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Post by Marwood on Aug 20, 2017 23:02:01 GMT
BBCFor The Nutty Professor, The King Of Comedy, those films with Dean Martin and so much more - R.I.P. Jerry
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Post by loureviews on Aug 21, 2017 6:30:56 GMT
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 21, 2017 6:32:00 GMT
Loved the partnership with Dean Martin.
RIP Gerry. Thanks for the giggles.
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 21, 2017 12:43:44 GMT
I can still remember the impact the movie 'My Friend Irma' made on me in Sydney when I saw Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis doing crazy things on screen for the first time in about 1949. Jerry Lewis was a great comic and a very talented man.
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 21, 2017 12:44:51 GMT
PS I was twelve years old in 1949 – a very impressionable age!
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 22, 2017 12:38:02 GMT
Reading one of his obituaries in the paper, it seems that he was the first choice for the role eventually played by Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, but because he (Jerry Lewis) had previously slept with Marilyn Monroe, he decided to decline the part. This may be a myth that has become fact over time, but Jack Lemmon sent him a box of chocolates every day for a year, as a thank you.
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