Jerry's son Gary Lewis – a musician who had a Billboard No. 1 hit with "This Diamond Ring" in February 1965 – was quoted saying his father was "never loving and caring" towards his children.

Jerry Lewis made one of the first Hollywood movies about the Holocaust. It’s been locked away for 50 years. What went wrong?

Lewis’s famous dad was Jerry Lewis, Hollywood’s undisputed “King of Comedy” — a Jewish entertainer who was born in 1926 as Joseph Levitch at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.