“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. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and ...

Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, filmmaker, actor, humanitarian and singer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" and has appeared in more than 59 motion pictures, starting in 49. These ...

Jerry Lewis remains one of Hollywood's most influential comedy stars of all time – but the actor and director was also well ...

Recent stories about Jerry Lewis having harassed and assaulted actresses brought back memories I’d chosen to forget from the year and a half I worked as the comic’s secretary. Twenty-three and new to ...

They first met in 1945, appearing on the same bill at a New York nightclub. Jerry Lewis caught Dean Martin's eye. Better still, the funny kid with the rubbery body made the whiskey-throated crooner ...

Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even ...