The comedian and Entertainer Jerry Lewis was considered the master of film klamauks in the United States. Now he died at 91 years of age. Hollywood mourns the loss of one of its Largest.
Mouth and eyes were wide open, squinting twisted, the facial Expressions derailed. With his grimaces Jerry Lewis plated self-indulgent, made this so skillfully, so gracious and funny that he influenced entire generations with his Humor. Clumsy, he conquered the box office in such films as “Hello Page” (1960) and “The office idiot” (1963) and embossed with his very own Slapstick, and slapstick subsequent comedian generations, like Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld or Robin Williams.
“I am, because he was,” paid tribute to American comedian, Jim Carrey the life of the plant. For actress Jamie Lee Curtis, whose parents had worked for Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, he was part of the family.
Seven decades and included his film career, which began in the 1940s. He grew up with “make-up in the blood,” to Lewis about his Childhood and youth said. The son of Jewish-Russian immigrants quickly learned from his father, a nightclub singer with great comic Talent. Jerry Lewis stepped in his footsteps and was already 18 as a solo entertainer on the club stage. Here he learned to 1945, with the italo-American crooner with the stage name Dean Martin was the birth of the most successful Komikerduos of the US-American post-war cinema to know.
The most successful comic Duo of the post-war cinema: Dean Martin (left) and Jerry Lewis
Dean Martin was singing, good-looking heartthrob, Jerry Lewis, the stuttering pain in the ass. Instead of geskripteter dialogues, the two improvised often, Lewis tried often to bring the audience, but his film partner, to Laugh. The experienced, authentic Couple that with a first own radio show launched, realized 16 common movies such as on the treadmill. “A guy with sex appeal and a monkey, so many people saw us,” wrote Lewis later in his book “the Dean to me”.
Tireless Jack Of All Trades
After ten years, it was then. Weary they had become to each other, Dean Martin was tired to play always the same, Jerry Lewis made alone: as a Director, producer, main performer. And though long in the 1960s arrived, his Slapstick scenes of the post-war period is still timelessly funny. The real Blockbuster was Hyde, his Film “The nutty Professor” from 1963, a satire on the horror film “Dr. Jekyll & Mr.”, which was remade in 1996 with Eddie Murphy.
Jerry Lewis also had serious sides. In 1972 he tried his hand at a particularly delicate Subject: In “The day The clown cried”, he plays a German circus clown who is doomed, children in concentration camps to facilitate the way to the gas chamber. So he addressed for the first time, his Jewish origin. But the Film failed. Lewis, who played the main role and directed, the result was so embarrassing that he published the Film never. Ten years it should take until Lewis recovered it.
Serious Old Age
Jerry Lewis at the Premiere of “Max Rose” in Cannes 2013
He then increased all the more brilliant: Martin Scorsese cast him in 1982 in “King of Comedy”, a serious Film about an aging comedian. The death of his former main cast member, Scorsese wrote: “Jerry Lewis was a master. He was a giant. He was an Innovator. He was a great Entertainer.” Never he will forget about the common rotational time. “He was – without Exaggeration – one of our Largest.”
It is just a few films, among other things, also followed because of the aging comedian’s health was chipped. In 1995, he took over in “Funny Bones” once again play the role of an aging star comedian. In 2013, he starred in “Max Rose,” a jazz musician who, after the death of his wife his whole life into question. Premiere has been celebrated since the end of 80 in Cannes to see in public, there was the movie that flopped at the box office, rather then in 2016, the retrospective “Happy Birthday, Mr. Lewis: The Kid Turns 90” in the New York Museum of Modern art And also Hollywood comedian legend, which has now died at the age of 91 in Las Vegas, a monument. As one of the few actor Jerry Lewis is immortalised there on several occasions: with two stars on the “Walk of Fame”.