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JERRY LEWIS TRIBUTE
September 4, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Take note, especially if you’re French: Tonight TCM has scheduled a special five-movie tribute to the recently departed Jerry Lewis. Five movies, starting in prime time at 8 p.m. ET with his 1963 crowd-pleaser, The Nutty Professor (pictured). Also included: At 10 p.m. ET, his later-career 1983 dramatic role as a kidnapped talk show host in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, followed at midnight ET by 1952’s The Stooge, in which he and Dean Martin tried to capture both the alchemic magic and offstage tensions of their show-biz partnership. Rounding things off: at 2 a.m. ET, 1960’s The Bellboy, which has some of Lewis’ best comedy set pieces, and, finally, at 3:30 a.m. ET, 1964’s The Disorderly Orderly. The first offering, The Nutty Professor, is indeed a great place to start, and features Stella Stevens as a la-la-la-la nice laaaady.

 
 
 
 
 
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