Best Jerry Lewis Movies
From 1949 through to 2013, Jerry Lewis appeared in 48 films (14 he directed). Which was the best?
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- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJohn LundDiana LynnDon DeForeA scatterbrained Brooklynite and her wheeler-dealer fiancé interfere in her level-headed roommate's love life.His debut with Dean Martin.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisStella StevensDel MooreA timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJerry LewisDiahnne AbbottA passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.Jerry at his unfunniest (which in this case was a good thing).
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisSebastian CabotNeil HamiltonA young heiress must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisEd WynnJudith AndersonA gender-swapped retelling of Charles Perrault's classic, where Cinderfella is visited by a fairy godfather to help him escape from his wicked stepmother and stepbrothers.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisAlex GerryBob ClaytonMute bellboy Stanley works at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. In spite of being a serviceable and friendly employee, the clumsy Stanley gets successively into trouble with his mistakes.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMike KellinAlvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.Starring 'Martin and Lewis'
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLizabeth ScottFleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.Martin & Lewis' 9th Movie
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDonna ReedAlthough gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisIna BalinEverett SloaneAn incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisShirley MacLaineRick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHelen TraubelPat StanleyA clueless, recently-single graduate unwittingly takes a job as a servant in a mansion inhabited by dozens of young women."Hey, Lady!"
- DirectorDaniel NoahStarsJerry LewisKerry BishéKevin PollakA jazz pianist makes a discovery days before the death of his wife that causes him to believe his sixty-five year marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era.His last film.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsJohn LundMarie WilsonDiana LynnEn route to Hollywood, singer Steve, his partner Seymour and fiancée Jane, Jane's airheaded roommate Irma, and Irma's con artist fiancé Al have a series of misadventures and end up involved with a murderous gang.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisRuth HusseyThe greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisCorinne CalvetAlthough allergic to kissing girls, Seaman Melvin Jones, through a fluke TV appearance, gets the undeserved reputation of a great kisser dubbed "Mr. Temptation" and is pursued by amorous young females.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMona FreemanNightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisPolly BergenEgotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMarjie MillarWhen Herman promises the mob to fix a racing horse in order to pay off his debts, he selects his veterinarian cousin as a patsy to help him but things go awry.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJanet LeighAn unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJoanne DruJerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDiana LynnWhen an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLori NelsonA rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisPat CrowleyA singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJerry LewisPhyllis KirkDavid WayneA bumbling hero with a photographic memory winds up in Morocco as a private in the French Foreign Legion. He still hasn't adjusted after 18 months. Among other things, he's lost a tank.
- DirectorDon McGuireStarsJerry LewisMartha HyerDarren McGavinSidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisMarie McDonaldSessue HayakawaGilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisMarilyn MaxwellConnie StevensA TV repair man must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart, now a famous movie star, so her career will not suffer.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJerry LewisDina MerrillDiana SpencerDuring the 1950s, a military panel grills Junior Officer John Paul Steckler to find the whereabouts of a Navy destroyer that he temporarily commanded during WWII and is missing.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJerry LewisJoan BlackmanEarl HollimanThe weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisBrian DonlevyHoward McNearA goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisJoan O'BrienZachary ScottA TV repairman dreams of being a detective and sets out to locate a missing heir.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyMilton BerleEthel MermanA group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisJill St. JohnRay WalstonNorman Phiffier works as a store clerk in a large department store. Clumsy and inept, he can't do anything right. Boy are they in trouble!
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisGlenda FarrellSusan OliverMedical student Jerome Littlefield works as an orderly at a private clinic where he creates havoc due to his ineptitude.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsTony CurtisJerry LewisDany SavalA friend visits his philandering friend just as that man's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisJanet LeighMary Ann MobleyAn artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJerry LewisConnie StevensRobert MorleyIn a futuristic world, the USA decides to send a married couple of astronauts to its moon base in order to prevent any improper contact with the Soviet female cosmonauts manning the USSR moon base.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHarold J. StoneSusan Bay NimoyOn a San Diego beach, Gerald Clamson fishes out of the water a look-alike frog man who gives him a map to a stash of stolen-diamonds coveted by several crime syndicates.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsJerry LewisTerry-ThomasJacqueline PearceAn American plans to bilk the British out of some considerable money with the help of an English con artist.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisJan MurrayJohn WoodBrendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits volunteers from among his employees for a privately funded mission in the Italian front of the war. Byers impersonates the German general Eric Kesselring, with a plan to order German troops to retreat and give way to advancing Allied forces. Unfortunately for Byers, the impersonation comes with complications. He has to deal with the real general's Italian mistress, while the German authorities are investigating Kesselring's involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisSusan OliverRoger C. CarmelIn Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
- DirectorRowby GorenChuck StaleyStarsMichael MisloveFred WillardPaul ZeglerCalifornia is devastated by a big earthquake and, in a series of hilarious vignettes, a television station conducts interviews with the citizenry.
- DirectorSteven PaulStarsJerry LewisMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanA rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
- DirectorPeter ChelsomStarsJerry LewisOliver PlattLee EvansAn unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsJohnny DeppJerry LewisFaye DunawayA young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
- DirectorGregg BarsonStarsJerry LewisAlec BaldwinRichard BelzerCandid, unfiltered conversations with the iconic comedian.
- DirectorPeter SegalStarsEddie MurphyJanet JacksonLarry MillerScientist Sherman Klump's inventions, his upcoming marriage to his pretty colleague Denise Gaines, and his reputation, are threatened by his evil clone Buddy Love.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJerry LewisPeter LawfordAnne FrancisA man (Jerry Lewis) is told by his doctor (Peter Lawford), and best friend, that he has a terminal illness. At his wife's urging, he lives life to the fullest, racking up insurmountable debts. When the damage is done, his friend the doctor tells him that he's not dying. Unfortunately, his life will eventually be ruined by his actions. So, they decide to stage his death so that his wife and family will not have to suffer for what he's done. Lewis eventually discovers that his friend, the doctor, set the entire scenario up so that he could get Lewis' wife.