This may be just as well. Jerry Lewis’s ill-fated 1972 Holocaust-themed comedy The Day The Clown Cried has long since become a byword for horrendous tastelessness and misplaced schmaltz – and ...

The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status. Jerry Lewis, the legendary American comedian, once made a film so controversial it was never ...

Lewis shot The Day the Clown Cried in France and Sweden in 1972 The death of US comedy legend Jerry Lewis has prompted renewed interest in his notorious "lost film", The Day the Clown Cried.

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) --Comedian Jerry Lewis has been hospitalized for several weeks as he weans himself from a steroid that was prescribed for a chronic lung ailment but led to his ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief “All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary.

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far ...

Entertainer Jerry Lewis, one of Hollywood's most successful comedians, has died aged 91. A family statement said he died of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas on Sunday morning. Lewis's 10 ...

Jerry Lewis Left All Six Children from His First Marriage Out of His Will Inside Jerry Lewis' Final Years: 'It Was Hard to See Somebody You Love Start Breaking Down' Jerry Lewis Died of Cardiac ...

Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor, The Ladies Man) shares his unique perspective of the directing side of more than seven decades working in comedy as a director, writer, producer and performer. He has ...

Moreover, it was never used for satire, but that’s what nearly happened in a project co-written, starring, and directed by Jerry Lewis. Jerry Lewis behind the scenes of The Day The Clown Cried (1972) ...