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The Patsy: Directed by Jerry Lewis. With Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris. An incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.
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- Comedy
- Jerry Lewis
- 1964-07-17
Plot. A famous comedian perishes in a plane crash. Members of his management team, worried that they will be jobless, decide to find someone to take his place as their "meal ticket". Stanley Belt is a bellboy at their hotel and they decide he will become their next star. Stanley has no obvious talent, but his new managers use their power to ...
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The Patsy. Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis) is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the ...
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- Jerry Lewis
- Jerry Lewis
- Comedy
A famous singer dies in a plane accident, and his management team--producer Caryl Fergusson, writer Chic Wymore, press agent Harry Silver, director Morgan Heywood, valet Bruce Alden, and secretary Ellen Betz--decides to make an unknown into a star. They pick Stanley Belt, a shy bellboy, whose nervous bumbling is mistaken for comic ability.
Jul 10, 2016 · The Patsy and The Struggle of Jerry Lewis. In 1995, the novelist and critic Gilbert Adair published his Flickers: An Illustrated Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema. The year, by most historical reckonings, marked cinema’s centennial, if, as many do, you regard the 1895 public screening of La Sortie des usines Lumiére – a strip of film less than a minute long showing nothing more than ...
Jerry Lewis. Director, Writer. Bill Richmond. Writer. When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
