Jerry wasn’t just ambitious, he also cared. Christopher’s book, Jerry Lewis on Being a Person, is based on what he witnessed on the set of 1963’s The Nutty Professor.

Comedian Jerry Lewis, also known for his partnership with Dean Martin, passed away in 2017 at age 91. His Holocaust drama, "The Day the Clown Cried," has never been screened in its entirety.

Jerry Lewis' infamous Holocaust clown comedy movie that was believed to have been lost for over four decades has been discovered in the bank vault of a Swedish actor. The Day the Clown Cried ...

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.