Jerry Lewis on the Oscar Levant Show
Feb 26, 2019 5:29:40 GMT
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Post by DBF on Feb 26, 2019 5:29:40 GMT
I was reading one of Oscar Levant's books and he mentioned that Jerry was a guest on his television show. The only episode of this show that is known to survive in its entirety is one with Fred Astaire as a guest.
However, a search of the UCLA Film & Television Archive turned up a record of archived audio for the episode that Jerry was on. (May 28, 1958.)
The only other info I have found so far regarding JL's appearance is a quote from a 1994 LA Times article:
"On "The Oscar Levant Show," the blinking, shaking host was able to show his all-round intellectualism: Aldous Huxley talked up LSD, Christopher Isherwood reeled off Baudelaire and Jerry Lewis read "The Waste Land" in an effeminate voice."
There was also a mention in the book of a guest appearance by Dean Martin, but it looks like that episode is lost.
However, a search of the UCLA Film & Television Archive turned up a record of archived audio for the episode that Jerry was on. (May 28, 1958.)
The only other info I have found so far regarding JL's appearance is a quote from a 1994 LA Times article:
"On "The Oscar Levant Show," the blinking, shaking host was able to show his all-round intellectualism: Aldous Huxley talked up LSD, Christopher Isherwood reeled off Baudelaire and Jerry Lewis read "The Waste Land" in an effeminate voice."
There was also a mention in the book of a guest appearance by Dean Martin, but it looks like that episode is lost.
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