Why the French Love Jerry Lewis
Title | Why the French Love Jerry Lewis PDF eBook |
Author | Rae Beth Gordon |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780804738941 |
Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" It shows how Lewis touches a nerve in the French cultural memory because, more than any other film comic, he incarnates a distinctively French tradition of performance style."
King of Comedy
Title | King of Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn Levy |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0312132484 |
A biography of Jerry Lewis, discussing his varied career as a performer, director, fundraiser, and standard-setting comedian, and looking at the private man and the forces that drive him.
The Total Film-maker
Title | The Total Film-maker PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Lewis |
Publisher | Random House Trade |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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A frank, personal story of the joys and pitfalls of making movies by a world famous film-maker.
Jerry Lewis
Title | Jerry Lewis PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Fujiwara |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2009-10-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 025203497X |
The premier study of an incomparable American director
The Comedians
Title | The Comedians PDF eBook |
Author | Kliph Nesteroff |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2015-11-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0802190863 |
“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
My Lucky Stars
Title | My Lucky Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Maclaine |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1996-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0553572334 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is like nothing you’ve read before about the world of movies—written by a movie star.”—Liz Smith An Academy Award-winning actress and the internationally bestselling author of Out on a Limb delivers her touching, warm, and headline-making memoir. In My Lucky Stars Shirley MacLaine talks candidly and personally about her four decades in Hollywood, especially about the men and women—her “lucky stars”—who touched and challenged her life. “[Maclaine is] an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review
Dean And Me
Title | Dean And Me PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Lewis |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2011-07-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1447204824 |
For ten years after WWII, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis weren't only the most successful show business act in history, they were history. Starting as a fill-in for another act in Atlantic city, their improvised, anarchic routines soon sold out all the greatest venues in America. They made films, they made millions. They made a legend. But amidst the dazzling success and the late night laughter, tensions developed between the reserved straight man, Martin, and the manic goon, Lewis. When the duo, who had reinvented the comic double-act, split acrimoniously in 1956 they didn't speak to one another for the next 20 years. This is an intimate memoir of those years of fame and success by one of the only surviving legends of the rat-pack era. Jerry Lewis remembers everything - the casinos, the mobsters, the endless pranks, the cocktails, the women, the meteoric rise to stardom. Here for the first and only time and in his own inimitable, wise-cracking voice he re-lives his days of glory with Dean Martin and gives a frank account of their relationship and break-up. A hilarious ride and heart-breaking, cautionary tale of what fame and fortune can do to love and friendship.