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Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin did not originate the buddy-film concept but their many films in this genre stand out as perhaps the best work of this sort to date.
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My Friend Irma (1949) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson
"and introducing" Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
This was the film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Set in New York City, Marie Wilson is "Irma", a completely ditzy blonde, Diana Lynn is her career-woman roommate who has her heart set on winning her rich boss as her husband. John Lund is Marie's wheeler-dealer boyfriend who "discovers" and then tries to promote Dean Martin as a new singing sensation, while Jerry has to play second fiddle even though the two had previously been a duel-act.
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My Friend Irma Goes West (1950) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring John Lund, Corinne Calvet, Diana Lynn, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson
Follow-up on "My Friend Irma" still has Marie Wilson as the ditzy blonde and John Lund as her shyster boyfriend. Diana Lynn as Dean Martin's love interest.
At War With The Army (1950) law-and-order buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, introducing Polly Bergen
The former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the army.
That's My Boy (1951) buddy-film drama (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Hussey, Marion Marshall, Polly Bergen
and introducing Eddie Mayehoff
Jerry and Dean are graduating high school. Jerry is the illness-plagued son of a football hero and business tycoon who wants to make him to be just like himself. Dean is the student body president, football hero and most popular boy in class. Jerry's dad offers to pay Dean's way through college provided they room together, so Dean's abilities might rub-off on Jerry.
Note: This is not a comedy.[Edit]
Jumping Jacks (1952) law-and-order buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman
Dean Martin is in the army while Jerry has a potentially bright future on stage. Dean, producing a show for the army needs Jerry's help, so he convinces him to impersonate a private and sneaks him into the show. But now through a series of misunderstandings, Jerry is stuck in the army.
Sailor Beware (1952) law-and-order buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall
Dean and Jerry enlist in the navy.
This movie includes the only tap-dance routine I've seen of Dean and Jerry together.The Stooge (1952) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Marion Marshall, Eddie Mayehoff
Set in New York City. Dean Martin is a comic trying to work up an act, when he meets Jerry Lewis who makes the act work. Dean however lets success go to his head, refusing to put Jerry's name in the credits. Dean tries to go back to a single act and realizes that he's not funny.
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Money From Home (1953) law-and-order buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley, Richard Haydn
Jerry is a veterinary intern, Dean is his shyster cousin. Dean is supposed to fix a race so a certain horse will win, but ends up falling in love with the horse's owner.
This film includes the only all-white motorcycle I've ever seen.Scared Stiff (1953) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda
(also notice Dorothy Malone)
Dean is a nightclub entertainer and Jerry is a busboy at a hotel. Dean kisses the wrong gal and now the head of the mob is after them. Meanwhile a woman in the same hotel is on her way to the haunted castle she just inherited.
In one scene, Jerry in drag lip-synch's Carmen Miranda in a song-and-dance routine[Edit]
The Caddy (1953) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
Set in New York City, Dean and Jerry are entertainers. A reporter asks them how they met and that sets up the rest of the movie. Jerry is a golf expert who gets nervous in front of people. Dean is a good golfer but Jerry wants to make him a pro money-maker on the golf circuit.
(Trivia: Notice Nancy Culp in a five-second cameo as "Emma" in part 7)3 Ring Circus (1954) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Joanne Dru, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elsa Lanchester
Jerry and Dean just out of the military, join a circus, Jerry wants to become a clown. Zsa Zsa is the egocentric and snotty trapeze artist who firstly becomes Dean's love interest. But she leaves the circus and Dean drops her for the hidden love interest -- the female circus owner.
Living It Up (1954) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold
In order to visit New York City, Jerry pretends to have "radiation sickness" thereby earning a free sympathy tour and publicity campaign.
This film has perhaps the wildest dance sequence that Jerry ever did.[Edit]
Artists and Models (1955) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff
(also notice Eva Gabor)
Dean Martin is a painter, Jerry Lewis is an author -- both trying to break into the art world. Dorothy Malone is a comic-book illustrator and eventually Dean's love interest. Shirley MacLaine is her roommate, and becomes Jerry's love interest, or at least makes a good effort to do so.
You're Never Too Young (1955) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete)starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch (also notice Raymond Burr and Nancy Culp)
Set in Los Angeles. Gangsters try to use Jerry Lewis as a stooge to carry an expensive diamond. They miss him and then try to catch up with him on a train ride. (Nancy Culp in a five-second cameo as the mother of the naughty boy.)
Pardners (1956) buddy-film western comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Jackie Loughery
(also notice Agnes Moorehead, Lon Chaney)
After Dean Martin's and Jerry Lewis' fathers are killed in an old West shoot-out, Agnes Moorehead takes her son (the baby Jerry) and moves to "the city" where she becomes fabulously wealthy. Meanwhile Dean grows up on the ranch their father's fought to protect. Sometime later, Dean shows up in the city, which triggers Jerry to follow him out to the ranch to learn how to be a cowboy.
Check out that crazy all-blue cowboy outfit Jerry wears.[Edit]
Hollywood or Bust (1956) buddy-film adventure comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg
In New York City, Jerry Lewis wins a car in a raffle, but shyster Dean has copies of all the tickets and also claims the car illegitimately. The judge declares that they must share the car. Dean tries to ditch Jerry in various ways but eventually agrees to drive cross-county to Hollywood so Jerry can meet his idol Anita Ekberg.
The Sad Sack (1957) law-and-order comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk, Peter Lorre, Joe Mantell, Gene Evans
Jerry in the Army. Jerry messes up all his assigned tasks and keeps getting transferred. One thing he can do well is assemble a complex piece of weaponry.
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The Delicate Delinquent (1957) buddy-film comedy (playlist - complete), produced by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer
Jerry is mistakenly picked up by the cops as a delinquent, but the kindly-hearted cop Darren McGavin decides that he can "reform" him. Martha Hyer as Darren's love interest, the uptown reformer who doesn't know how to deal with street kids.
From the beginning of Jerry's career, his movies revolved around a two-man relationship with Dean Martin, and could be read with elements of homo-eroticism, with any female romantic interest of Jerry's always played very light and unsubstantial. Dean Martin however was played as such a ladies man that that element was obscured. In The Delicate Delinquent however, the emotional bonding with Darren McGavin seems to me, much more directly encoded attraction. Much of the dialogue can easily be read as flirtation and intimacy. Darren's love interest is downplayed and inconsequential.
Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, introducing Connie Stevens
Jerry's former girlfriend is now a famous movie star, Marilyn Maxwell, but she is pregnant by some guy she met briefly in Mexico. She decides that Jerry would make the perfect person with whom to leave her two-month-old triplets. Connie Stevens plays Marilyn's younger sister, who is in love with Jerry.
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The Geisha Boy (1958) comedy (playlist - complete), produced by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane
introducing Suzanne Pleshette
Jerry is a magician, sent to Japan to entertain the troops. He appears to fall for a Japanese woman and her nephew becomes his adoptive son at least temporarily.
Cinderfella (1960) fantasy comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti
Jerry Lewis in a sex-reversal of the classic Cinderella story, Ed Wynn is his fairy godfather. Anna Maria Alberghetti is the princess. Judith Anderson is the "evil" step-mother.
The Bell Boy (1960) comedy (playlist - complete)
written, produced and directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Cary Middlecoff, The Novelites, Joe Levitch
Jerry is a bell-hop in a hotel. Lots of zany antics as usual.
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The Errand Boy (1961) comedy (playlist - complete), directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson
Set in Hollywood. Jerry is hired as an errand boy and unbeknown spy, by a large movie studio, in order to determine why they are losing money. His antics set the entire place on its ear.
Ladies Man (1961) comedy (playlist - complete), produced and directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Hope Holiday
introducing Pat Stanley; guest stars Buddy Lester, George Raft
Jerry gets a job, as the houseboy... in an all-ladies rooming house, full of seriously eccentric characters, mostly trying to break-into show business.
It's Only Money (1962) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis
Jerry is a television repair-man who was orphaned as a baby. Mae Questel is a wealthy woman searching for her long-lost nephew. Her lawyer Zachary Scott however has his own evil plan to get his hands on her money.
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The Nutty Professor (1963) comedy (playlist - complete), directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Jerry a professor with no charm invents a potion that turns him into Mr charming-but-egotistical
Who's Minding the Store (1963) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Jill St John, Ray Walston, John McGiver, Agnes Moorehead, (also notice Nancy Culp)
Set in New York City. Jerry Lewis is "an animal sitter and poodle-dog walker", Jill St John is his romantic interest. Agnes Moorehead is Mrs Tuttle, her wealthy mother who is shocked...simply shocked! at the relationship. Ray Walston is the manager of one of the Tuttle department stores and ordered by Agnes to hire Jerry and give him rotten jobs to do. Classic wicked Agnes. And check out Nancy Culp as a butch big-game hunter buying an elephant gun.
Disorderly Orderly (1964) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver
Jerry is an orderly in a hospital who is so empathic he can feels his patient's pain when they describe it.
(Keep an eye out for the hilarious episode with Alice Pearce as one of the patients, she was later the second Gladys Kravitz on "Bewitched".)
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Boeing Boeing (1965) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis has discovered that he can keep three girlfriends at once, if he only dates flight attendants and keeps close track of their schedules so they don't overlap each other. Jerry discovers his plan and blackmails him into letting him stay over and observe. Thelma Ritter is the housekeeper who is going crazy trying to help juggle all the activity.
(Thelma Ritter looks familiar to me from somewhere else. Anyone know where?)The Family Jewels (1965) comedy (playlist - complete), produced and directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, and introducing Miss Donna Butterworth
A 10-year-old heiress, Donna Butterworth, must choose a guardian among five different uncles with Jerry Lewis as her chauffeur.
(Trivia: Donna Butterworth was a child-star who appeared in a few movies and television spots. She has recently resurfaced and blames her step-father for, at the age of 16, being required to give up her Hollywood career. She was living in Hawaii in 2009.)Way Way Out (1966) science-fiction comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver, Howard Morris
Brian Keith, Dick Shawn, Anita Ekberg (also notice James Brolin)
Two astronauts stationed on the Moon have to be replaced before they kill each other, and Jerry Lewis is the next choice. But the agency has decided that the next couple should be married, Connie Stevens is the astronaut Jerry selects to be his wife for the mission.
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Don't Raise the Bridge Lower the River (1968) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis
Jerry is an American living in England and addicted to get-rich-quick schemes. His wife has had enough and divorces him. Jerry tries to win her back. Not really a comedy but hard to peg.
Hook, Line and Sinker (1969) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Anne Francis
Jerry's doctor Peter Lawford tells him he has an incurable condition. Jerry's wife Anne Francis insists that what he must do, is give himself an expensive vacation charged to his company as he will be dead before the bill's come due.
Which Way to the Front (1970) comedy (playlist - complete), produced and directed by Jerry Lewis
starring Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, John Wood, Willie Davis, Sidney Miller (also notice Kaye Ballard)
Jerry drafted but then rejected by the Army, decides to form his own army.
Oddly the "opening" credits do not appear until about 12 minutes into this movie.Hardly Working (1980) comedy (playlist - complete)
starring Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver
Jerry Lewis is an out-of-work clown. His sister Susan Oliver works her connections and gets him job-after-job each of which he loses in various hilarious ways. Finally he becomes a postman, a civil service job impossible to lose.
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King of Comedy (1983) drama comedy (playlist - complete), directed by Martin Scorsese
starring Robert de Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Tony Randall, Shelley Hack, Fred de Cordova, Dr Joyce Brothers, Ed Herlihy, Lou Brown, Victor Borge
A dark comedy about the strange underside of fame with the odd delusions it creates. Robert de Niro is a comedian who fantasizes a relationship with Jerry Lewis. Sandra Bernhard certainly holds her own as de Niro's partner, a stalker. She is simply stunningly insane at times.
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