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The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.
Jerry Lewis stars as a bumbling orderly who causes chaos in a private clinic. The film features slapstick humor, romance, and a title song by Sammy Davis Jr.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Frank Tashlin
- 1965-02-01
From causing the patients more trauma to a high-speed ambulance chase, Lewis and his healthy does of comic mishaps are the perfect prescription for all that ails you. Poor Jerome Littlefield ...
Jerome Littlefield becomes a hospital orderly, hoping to become a doctor like his father. Afflicted with a "neurotic identification empathy" which causes him to suffer the pains of his patients, Jerome creates mayhem in his bungling attempts to help. Dr. Jean Howard, once in love with Jerome's father and now head of the hospital, is fond of him ...
- Frank Tashlin
- Jerry Lewis
The Disorderly Orderly (1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A comedy classic starring Jerry Lewis as an orderly in a mental hospital who takes on the symptoms of his patients. Watch the trailer, learn more and read about the film's cast, crew and genres.
Poor Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis). He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
