Paramount Theatre
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1501 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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JERRY LEWIS(1926-2017)
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HE STARTED HIS CAREER AS SOLO PERFORMER DOING WHAT HE CALLED “THE RECORD ACT”,HE WOULD MIME TO A RECORD PLAYER ON STAGE.NEXT HE WOULD MEET DEAN MARTIN AND THEY WOULD MAKE HISTORY.JERRY LEWIS ALWAYS SAID WHAT THEY DID LIVE ON STAGE TOGETHER WAS WAY BETTER THAN ANY MOVIE THEY MADE.WHEN THEY SPLIT IT WAS THOUGHT IT WAS A BIG MISTAKE,BUT THEY WOULD BOTH PROVE THEIR GREATNESS AS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS. JERRY LEWIS WILL BE REMEMBERED IN THE SAME LIGHT AS CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND BUSTER KEATON!
Early in his career, Mr Lewis worked at the Loew’s State Theatre as an usher where he was dismissed for trying to unionize the ushers because even Loew’s overworked and paid their employees peanuts. Goodbye Jerry, I was the right age to enjoy your movies on television, saw your movie “Which Way To The Front?” in the very empty RKO Kenmore in Brooklyn on a Sunday matinee at 13 years old. I walked by the Loew’s Kings while they played “Don’t Raise The Bridge, Lower The River” inside. At Century’s Whitman we played “Hardly Working” for two weeks, to no business in late 1980. I saw “The Nutty Professor” at a screening at UA Farmingdale some years back. There might be imitators, but there was only one Jerry Lewis!