“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 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 ...

In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian on his yacht, Levy gingerly asked him about “The Day the Clown Cried.” Levy knew the ...