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The Jerry Lewis Show

Year:
Duration:
120 min
Genres:
Comedy
IMDB rate:
7
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1963-09-21
Filming Locations: Hollywood Palace Theater - 1735 N. Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Jerry Lewis
Himself - Host (7 episodes, 1963)
Del Moore
Announcer / ... (5 episodes, 1963)
Kaye Stevens
Herself (3 episodes, 1963)
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Trivia
Renovating the theater for the "Jerry Lewis Show" required restructuring the outside marque, installing an electric "Jerry Lewis Show" sign atop the marque. When ABC TV pulled the plug, canceling the Jerry Lewis program, the replacement TV Variety show "The Hollywood Palace" replaced the theatre designation - The Jerry Lewis Theatre. In 1970 when "the Hollywood Palace" was canceled, the sign remained many years until ABC Television sold the property. ABC TV had two properties on Vine Street which were used for Television/audience involved programs. The Lawrence Welk show became a syndicated program, and was moved off the ABC Prospect and Talmadge Studio lot into the Palace Theatre; then the Welk show moved to CBS Television City at Fairfax and Beverly, taping shows until the production was shut down in the late 80's.
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The Hollywood and Vine Street Theater, formerly the El Capitan Theatre, had been used for radio studio audience broadcasting. ABC TV bought the property, renovating the old theaters interiors by filling in the orchestra pit, (extending the stage footlights/apron forward by twenty feet), adding a 6'-0" wide concrete stage center camera aisle, connecting the stage to a rear wall camera 6'-0" deep aisle. Adjacent to the left of the ramp, an audience seating area (camera left) was installed, with an access aisle dividing the block of seats, and a side wall aisle, which seated approximately 230 guests. On the right side of the camera aisle, a smaller seating section was installed with six seats to each row of ten rows (60 seats). On the theater's right side, the orchestra area, replaced the audience area, and was maintained at stage level. The back stage, behind the new proscenium, the fly floor was renovated, with the addition of lighting pipes (fly floor on stage right/camera left). On stage left, a new star dressing room was built. The first floor was a decorated lounge, (with a front and mirrored back bar, stools, a spinet piano, sofa, arm chairs, and side/coffee tables); with a spiral staircase to the second upstairs floor make-up room, a small day-bed/sofa lounge and make-up chairs; an adjacent toilet equipped with a wall telephone hanging to the left of the commode (for Jerry to conduct his conference calls, even while on his throne). The theater lobby was renovated. An engineering electronic, sound and tape room was located at the front area of the theater lobby; with the TV Control room (sandwiched) facing the stage, with sound proof glass windows separating the technical operations area from the audience-stage area. The video electrical cable camera connections were installed for four (4) stage cameras, one (1) center crane camera, and one (1) balcony fixed camera. Two (2) boom dolly mikes were on either side of the proscenium stage. Upstairs offices at the front of the two story theater were redesigned/installed for the Lewis Production personnel. The stage/television show designer Bill Morris designed a show home-base host desk area, with guest chairs, on an electric scissor lift platform. During the interview segments, Jerry Lewis' interview host area would be raised above the stage floor (approximately) fifteen (15'-0") feet, which enabled the balcony audience to view the guest stars and host Jerry Lewis. The cost to renovate the facility was $400,000.00.
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Every door in Jerry Lewis' dressing room had a large script initial "J L" centered at eye level. The script "J L" was never removed from the dressing room doors after the theater was turned over and into "The Hollywood Palace". Nick Vanoff thought the imprint was a lucky charm and a memorial to Jerry Lewis.
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