Jerry Lewis
Birthday: 1926-03-16
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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The King of Comedy
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...
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Arizona Dream
An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film,...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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Pardners
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footste...
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The Patsy
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased e...
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At War with the Army
Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his form...
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A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's story of a man willing to go to any length for a s...
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Scared Stiff
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who ...
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I Know A Riddle
Old fashioned riddles and answers are flashed on the screen, together with non-stop film clips of vi...
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The Hollywood Clowns
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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Li'l Abner
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, ...
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The Ladies Man
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a...
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The Disorderly Orderly
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice ...
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The Errand Boy
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. M...
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It's Only Money
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out ...
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Funny Bones
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t...
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Who's Minding the Store?
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend...
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Dean Martin: King of Cool
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to...
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart...
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Smorgasbord
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end ...
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The Sad Sack
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training ha...
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Hollywood or Bust
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Stev...
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Artists and Models
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic b...
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Jumping Jacks
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. ...
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The Geisha Boy
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...
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The Caddy
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is to...
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3 Ring Circus
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment...
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The Delicate Delinquent
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth savi...
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The Bellboy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly...
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Boeing, Boeing
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air Fran...
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Three on a Couch
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a p...
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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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Sailor Beware
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enl...
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Living It Up
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi...
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The Nutty Professor
To impress a beautiful girl, Harold Kelp, the grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potio...
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The Nutty Professor
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav...
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Cinderfella
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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The Family Jewels
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the gi...
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You're Never Too Young
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity...
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Money from Home
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that...
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That's My Boy
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his o...
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Slapstick of Another Kind
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are ...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wif...
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The Stooge
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act...
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Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
Classic Dean Martin performances, including "Send Me The Pillow You Dream On", "King of the Road", a...
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Cookie
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen...
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,...
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My Friend Irma
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o...
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My Friend Irma Goes West
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a ser...
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Visit to a Small Planet
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien w...
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The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon
Jerry Lewis’s patented form of slapstick made him a 20th-century comedic icon. But former co-stars d...
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Way... Way Out
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple....
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The Jack Benny Birthday Special
A TV special aired on February 17, 1969 (the star’s birthday was February 14), featuring Benny’s lon...
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The Big Mouth
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertentl...
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Which Way to the Front?
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his co...
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then lea...
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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
It will surprise few to discover that star of stage and screen Jerry Lewis has sought to amuse other...
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Don't Give Up the Ship
The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return....
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Hardly Working
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't se...
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How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
Clovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy ind...
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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers t...
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions sp...
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Max Rose
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their li...
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The Last Laugh
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use hu...
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An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis
TV movie starring Sammy Davis Jr and Jerry Lewis....
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Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt....
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How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border is a 1949 American short comedy film directed by Jerry Lew...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev...
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Fight for Life
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to ge...
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The Defective Detective
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenan...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Soap Opera
Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts televisio...
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the f...
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Red Line 7000
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the profes...
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian ...
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The Trust
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault....
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix....
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Gay, Gay Hollywood
The short shows various clips from Hollywood feature films that, like the title of the film, are ful...
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The Day the Clown Cried
An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi c...
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Medicine Ball Caravan
Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to ...
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!
The film chronicles George's adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus sh...
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Dying Laughing
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians....
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The Clown
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried"....
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One More Time
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers....
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Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing...
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A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli
Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their rel...
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Till Luck Do Us Part 2
After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitte...
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Road to Bali
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sig...
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing ...
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The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried
Jewish comedian David Schneider presents a look at some exclusive behind the scenes material from th...
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Mr. Saturday Night
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing ...
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Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay...
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the...
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World....
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The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis were the hottest act in America in the 1950's & the highest paid comedy te...
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Come Back Little Shiksa
A Jerry Lewis directed home movie remake of the Burt Lancaster drama Come Back Little Sheba. Dean Ma...
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Fairfax Avenue
Janet Leigh commands her close-up as the faux Norma Desmond character in what an elaborate title seq...
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
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Rickles... On the Loose
Special featuring Don Rickles in his live comedy act at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, mixed with fo...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift thos...
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Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the mos...
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Rascal Dazzle
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jer...
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Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, ...
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Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo
A showcase of 3-D Kodachrome slides taken between the 40's and 70s....
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Kreka: Dreamcatcher
The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and...
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From Darkness to Light
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, ...
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Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
Miss Glucksman, teacher of Englewood Liberty school, visits Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Jerry Lewi...
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Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywo...
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Classic Comedy Teams
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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Dean Martin: The One and Only
He was a beloved American icon. Dean Martin, the coolest, the most debonair, the smoothest. This fil...
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Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
The film explores the personal and professional life of Stella Stevens, one of Hollywood's last star...
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