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This was Peter Lorre's final film. He died in March 1964 prior to its release. This film and Lewis's The Disorderly Orderly, released a few months apart, were the final screen appearances of actor Everett Sloane.
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.
- (2.6K)
- Comedy
- Jerry Lewis
- 1964-07-17
the film's premise: following the death of famous comic Wally Brandford in an airplane crash in Alaska (footage from The Mountain (1956)), klutzy Beverly Hilton Hotel bellhop Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis) - a totally-untalented unknown nebbish - was recruited and trained to replace him by a management team composed of an entourage of Hollywood ...
Jul 10, 2016 · After a famous comedian dies in a plane crash, his management team, fearing they will be jobless without him, attempt to make a bumbling bellboy at their hotel, Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis), into the next star to take his place.
- Nafis Shafizadeh
The accidental death of a famous comedian in a plane crash leaves his publicity team jobless. So they select hapless and clumsy hotel bellboy Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis) as his successor and embark on synthesising a funny man out of him.
In the ending, Jerry Lewis ' character supposedly falls from the terrace of a tall building then, as Ina Balin 's character is bewailing his death, Lewis strolls past the edge of the terrace revealing that the whole thing is a movie set. Lewis and Balin then walk off the set.
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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.
