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Jerry Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jerry Lewis [1] (born Joseph Levitch March 16, 1926), is an American comedian, actor, producer, and director, known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. |
 | | Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey to a Jewish American family, the son of a vaudeville performer named Danny Lewis, He began in burlesque in 1942 at age 16 (if the birth year of 1926 is correct) and married two years later in 1944 at age 18. |
 | | Lewis tried his hand at singing in the 1950s, having a chart hit with the song "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", a song originated by Al Jolson and popularized by Judy Garland. |
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