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| | Frank Tashlin |
 | | As vaudeville, the Borscht Belt circuit (from which Jerry Lewis emerged) and early American screen comedy were jam-packed with risqué humour, it would be historically inaccurate to say that Tashlin introduced a particularly naughty streak to Hollywood, but his style is built in some ways in ribald humour, and for this reason he stands out. |
 | | The influential duo was on its last legs: Dean and Jerry were squabbling openly, but managed to eke out three more films together, including the two that Tashlin made with them, Artists and Models (1955) and Hollywood or Bust (1956), which are generally (and correctly) regarded as their two best films. |
 | | When Jerry Lewis was a popular and bankable motion picture star, and when his reputation among critics was at its zenith from, approximately, the early 1950s through the mid-1960s his talent and presence often overshadowed those of Tashlin, the man who, Lewis freely admits, taught him much that he knows about directing (10). |
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