Comic legend Jerry Lewis is having thelast laugh on his own children, reportedly cutting all six sons out of his will. A 1959 contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions specified a payment of $10million plus 60% of the profits for 14 films over seven years. He was the headlining act, and was introduced, but did not appear onstage. A tribute to Lewis was held during the 2011 telethon (which originally was to be his final show bearing his name with MDA). Jim Carrey on What He Learned From Jerry Lewis", "Jerry Lewis: Martin Scorsese, Jim Carrey, More Remember Comedy Legend", "An American Original The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Jerry Lewis", "Deconstruction Jerry: Lewis as Director: Some Basic Characteristics of the Fool", "For Jerry Lewis Few Statuettes But Lots of Influence", "Carl Reiner on 7 Decades of Laughter With Friend Jerry Lewis", "Jerry Lewis Is a Brilliant Comic Artist, a Technically Innovative Filmmaker and an Enduring Creative Influence in Hollywood -- and for That He Deserves an Oscar", "The Disc's Coming of Age, From Noir to Seinfeld", "Jerry Lewis, a Knockabout Clown with a Dark and Melancholy Inner Life", "Jerry Lewis Is a Brilliant Comic Artist, a Technically Innovative Filmmaker and an Enduring Creative Influence in Hollywood and for That He Deserves an Oscar", "An appreciation: Jerry Lewis helped write the auteur's playbook", "An American Original RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Jerry Lewis", "The Innovator: Jerry Lewis at Paramount", "Deconstructing Jerry, Lewis As A Director", "Wresting Order From Disorder in Jerry Lewis's Adventures In Multiplicity", "Pure, Unfiltered Id: Reappraising Jerry Lewis' Brutally Unfunny Comedy", "Jerry Lewis, The Movie's Mad and Mercerial Comic Genius", "Critics Notebook: Jerry Lewis a Comic Genius by Turns Sweet and Bitter", "Jerry Lewis: b. Joseph Levitch, Newark New Jersey, res. Why Dean Martin Hated Jerry Lewis | Newsmax.com Because his estate used a will, which became a public document, we know that Jerry Lewis very deliberately excluded all of the children from his first marriage to Patti Palmer, from inheriting anything from his estate. Lewis, 91, died in Las Vegas last month from heart failure. In several of his films both with Martin and solo Lewis's Jewish identity is hinted at in passing, and was never made a defining characteristic of his onscreen persona. He went on to star in Three on a Couch (1966), The Merv Griffin Show, WayWay Out (1966), The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, Batman, Laugh In, Password, a pilot for Sheriff Who, a new version of The Jerry Lewis Show, this time as a one-hour variety show for NBC, which ran from 1967 to 1969,[43] The Big Mouth (1967), Run for Your Life and The Danny Thomas Hour.
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