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He was most likely just showing off. No offense, it’s called Narcissism...

Jerry Lewis was a class act.

WOW……what a very interesting thing to have happened to you!!!

@tom thumb you don’t know me. But please, get really upset with your own Distorted, foolish, reactionary thoughts. Jerry Lewis was a great entertainer, but a real ego maniac and everyone knows it. That’s probably why you love the guy...

When I was a boy, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were on the Colgate Comedy Hour one Sunday evening. On that program, one group of guests were four African-American dancers--I don't remember their name. But the audience knew them. First, the guests did a fantastic dance routine that drew great applause. Then the guests invited Jerry and Dean to do a routine with them. Then all six of them did individual routines. The four guys were great, but Dean and Jerry also brought down the house. It was a tremendous evening for a kid. I'll never forget Jerry and Dean were tremendous dancers.

Jim Porter The group was called The Four Step Brothers, I believe. I think they has them on CCH a couple of times, but my favorite is when Jerry was so exhausted afterward, he deposited himself into dean's embrace, saying "Aw, bubby, I'm tired." ♡

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and a fine serious singer.

+Stephanie Santos This group of fantastic dancers(the four step brothers) also appeared in bob hope's here come the girls(1953) and did a dance number with him as well.

You're right. So many back in the day had a history of working in vaudeville. Jerry Orbach ( L&O, Dirty Dancing, etc) was multi-talented and could sing as well!

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I am thinking maybe a high IQ and fast foot work goes together.

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I loved Jerry Lewis

He was my daddy's favourite Hollywood star.

His 5 boys were scared stiff of him. They’d run away when he came home.

@@andersdottir1111 I did read that., sad

Jerry Lewis worked harder than anybody else in Hollywood during the 1950s and 1960s, but he paid a price for it with bad health in the 1970s and 1980s.

*NO he was NOT. And here I am to PROVE IT!!!!!!!!!*

He was also an ass in real life.

@@aldod3937 And you knew him personally did you?

@@user-oi2yk9yi4y no but I've seen every single interview about him and every person said the same thing that he was an asshole in real life

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I was wondering who his partner was. She never stopped with the turns and gyrations!

And in high heels!

I looked her up and she was in a LOT of movies and shows. Wow, what talent.

Well they didn't dance it all at once. There were multiple takes selected and spliced.

And she’s wearing heels!!!

Mine too, even our two sons, born in the 70's, loved his films.

Sadly in real life Lewis was a real arsehole. As he got older the goofy teen schtick became tiresome. If you want to know who the real Lewis was, watch the Nutty Professor. The character Buddy Love is much closer to who the Lewis was.

@@markgeorge5536 Agree with you.

PITY HE DUD NOT GIVE HAPPINESS TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN !

@@mariamorizzi6519 Yeah..😓😓

Correct a money-hungry world I remember driving is worth $2 per car it went up higher than that and that's not going to the drive-ins the movies went up to over 15 bucks I stopped going to the movies nowadays movie stars producers directors one more money so they take it out on the People by raising the movie industry theaters

Aww bless him that's very sad

Very good and innocent pure fun.yes TALENT

@@maryannw.615 A good dancer but a jerk.

Yesh all the comments even from his Son Gary described him as a terrible person and only worse as he got older. Google it. I grew up to him and was hard reading all the things about him. He was mean to Dean as well. He didn't give a penny to his family from his 1st marriage sadly they all expected it.

thank you for mentioning her name.

I remember Sheree North in dramatic roles..I had no idea that was her dancing because I missed the part where her name was mentioned. She was amqzing!!

I didn’t like all the head shaking she did. It was a bit weird

I used to go out dancing each and every night and dance just for the love of it!!!!!

@@deedeesimpson572 Me too !!! ......... Well , to meet girls but dancing was on my agenda "sometimes."

I think they drew their inspiration from Busby Berkeley . . .

Fr this was probably seen as radical when it was released lmfao

the lady dancing was fabulous too plus everyone else.

+BobbyD Here-here!

What is the name of this movie?

@@f.d.r.f.d.r.3187 Living It Up. 1954.

I'm going to try and bring in some good music to dance to.

Who in the world is that trumpet player???

@@elwoodblues9613 Maynard Ferguson was the trumpeter.

​@@BrianWood-fj7ygIt definitely sounds like Maynard. In a high school English class we had to write to a famous person so I wrote to MF. Several months later I got a large envelope in the mail with a picture of him and a nice letter saying he was sorry it took so long to respond, but he'd been touring. I still have them.

Absolutely!!!

He also had a beautiful singing voice when he wasn't putting his comedic flair in it. Check out the movie "Rock-A-Baby" when his sings this very beautiful love song.

@@TheRozberry The Nutty Professor one of my favs where he gets to act suave.

True he could truly dance.❤ I remember being amazed when I've seen this clip for the first time and the one in Rock a bye Baby.

I think he might have said he was a physical comedian which necessitated choreographed movements more than strictly dancing x

Absolutely true. I have a love/hate relationship with Lewis -- he could be a brilliant performer (like here) and innovative director (for my money, The Ladies' Man is his best directed film), but he could also be annoying and cloying. But I've collected his movies...

American treasure, maybe, genius, gimme a break..

He was a camera geek 📷📷📷

@@MuzikSonics actually Lewis had an IQ between 145 and 168, some quotes even 194, depending on the source. Look it up. It's a well known fact.

@@MuzikSonics I disagree . Now genius doesn’t mean perfect . Still if you don’t won’t use the word genius how about acknowledging Jerry Lewis as a true original!

And so is the FEMALE DANCER!!!!!!!

@@sandrarivera3829 it's okay to say a man is awesome. I know woke hate that

@@sandrarivera3829 she was wild

FOOTWORK IS OFF THE CHARTS!!!!DR.BRYANT LANE.

@@bryantlane8646 backwards and in high heels, just like all the Fred Astaire girls!

Jane Doe you know that's exactly what I was thinking in in those days shoes were made beautifully and literally made the last 20 years not like the ones today where you got to buy a pair every 6 months

That's what amazed me.

And what we see would not have been Take 1.

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I think that's what those shoes were designed for. Heels are best for ballroom, swing, salsa, etc. They keep you up on your toes so that you can move quickly.

And he played a mean drums

I did not like him as comedian but I loved seen him dancing.

I feel the same way, but the reality of it was when Jerry Lewis passed away, there was NOT one TV station or news media that made acknowledgement of what he accomplished and gave of himself every year to put the MD Telethon together ! Yes he was one of the GREAT ones, not the garbage media we have today

He cheated on his first wife and disliked his children

@@blueraven5242 No he did not!The majority of that money,went into research,and helping his kids!

ALL THAT MONEY HE GOT A PERCENTAGE OF.....ALL THAT MONEY ALL THOSE YEARS THEY DID'NT CURE NOT EVEN ONE KID!

I got exhausted just watching this! Haha

Nicotine fueled! 🤣

As a kid in the 60s and I saw Jerry Lewis in movies, I thought he actually talked the way he did in real life. Then I saw him do the MDA Telethon and found out he had a regular voice. I never really liked him as a performer.

and the blond is wearing high heels....

That's SherreeNorth .....loved her in How to be very very popular...

The blind in white is Sherry North, a character actress in many movies and tv including Seinfeld. I didn’t know she danced though and is very very good!

Paula Abdul could have done this in her prime without blinking an eye and she would have choreographed it too.

They were superb!!

Yeah, this explains his boxing scene which is yet another level

That's very true!

Yes, I thought that had to be Maynard. Nobody else sounds like that. What fire in his playing!

Apparently only when the cameras were on.

@@pbear7814 he was an odd one.

I am not sure now if the lady in the blue dress is Vivian or Lana they both so similar and the fast shot of her is confusing. Please set me straight lol. Thanks, If is Lana....my apologies and best of wishes to you.

Kristina Kelly You're sweet and polite and no apology is necessary, Kristina, although I appreciate your manners very much indeed. It's Janet Leigh.

Hi Alana: You are so sweet too I wish you much in this holiday season. Keep in touch, I love to get vintage videos in ballroom dancing. I have added you to my circles. God be with you, peace be with you.

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I did the same thing and pledged my allowance

Staying up to watch Jerry was a sacred duty when I was a boy.."If Jerry can stay up all night..so can I" I would tell myself

Too bad he abandoned his first family. Cut out all his kids from his first marriage

Got to watch the fat intake maybe. Let's get dancing.

We love him in Brazil also. Still love his movies as much as I did when I was a child.

French think Americans are incouth u cool and idiots and Jerry supported their stereotype

I had such as crush on in the movie "Cinderella."🥰🌹♥️

On Jerry.💓

There's still people putting out good movies and dance. I hope to write some songs to dance to.

Lennart Carlsson Well, he was a pretty good physical ‘slapstick’ comedian, though I preferred Lucy and some of the Marx Brothers material. Bu the trouble with that kind of comedy is that it’s really only a young mans game. It’s much harder to keep up when you reach middle age. And comedy, of course, is very subjective - ‘one mans meat is another mans poison’. I myself prefer humour that makes clever use of language, someone like Tony Hancock or the manic double-talk of Groucho and Chico Marx. Also, the dry humour of Bob Newhart or Paul Merton (who just cracks me up whenever he goes off on one of his surreal rants!), or even Dean Martin whenever he would come out with one of his hilarious off-the-cuff ad-libs. But I know there will be plenty of people who will disagree with me, and that’s fair enough. There must surely be room for all kinds of humour, especially the way the world is today.

Boogie on Jerry. Maybe we'll be doing the dance moves in Heaven.

She really looked a lot like Marilyn Monroe.

More trivia: Sheree North also played Blanche's sister Virginia on The Golden Girls

She was Kramer ‘s mom ?? Awesome trivia!

kramers mom or Georges

@@kathberry8 Kramers

Dang we'll have to call triple threat level people from SSBU or sumn

quadruple...comedian!

And write and direct, too.

but he was an even better drummer. and still he was a schmuck.

and he was funny. and entertaining. not every 'entertainer' is entertaining.

One of the greats. I hope I can step my music game for people by the time I'm 85.

I wish I could do that. I'll keep trying.

Hello Patty, How are you doing?

Do you what movie this from? I’ve never seen it before! Wow!

@@PaulaZF Living It Up 1954

@@rossapolis Thank you! My husband of 40 years has been a huge fan of Jerry all his life. He has really turned me on to the finer art of Jerry Lewis.

@@PaulaZF No problem

Hello Judith, How are you doing?

Hello Patricia, How are you doing?

@e causey Thank you for joining in. I feel these days most of our so called " Celebrities ' have zero Class content. Although not 100% certain I thought I read somewhere Jerry Lewis had passed away. If so our World will laugh a little bit less now. With all the man made crap going on now in these COVID19 days one can understand why our World is so sad. I am 71 now and hope to live long enough to see the creators of this vile plague brought to justice but I fear Justice and Class has gone the way of the Do Do Bird and we are all poorer for their passing. Cheers from Australia. Denis.

@e causey Let us hope you are right I know the wheels of justice move slower than any Snail but I guess they are still moving forward. Stay Safe and Well. Cheers, Denis.

I SAY EVIL IN HIM !

Oh yeah! And we can add Sean Hayes to the 'Influenced by Jerry', particularly in the role of Jack McFarland.

STEVEN BURGER I was thinking the exact same thing!

This clip comes from what movie?

I was thinking the same thing. You have to be really good to make "crazy" dancing look like that.

lightasair44 Look back to the lindy hop era. I had the honour of working with Frankie Manning before his death. Frank was doing all this stuff long before this movie was made. Great performance by Jerry, yes, but not new for the time.

All performers learn from each other. It's a matter of whether you can do the act well not whether you did it first.

Jerry Lewis was the male Lucille Ball.

lightasair44 they sped up the film.