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“I get paid for what most kids get punished for.” – Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1951
The Stooge (1951)
1953
Scared Stiff (1953)
1955
Artists and Models (1955)
1952
Sailor Beware (1952)
1953
The Caddy (1953)
1949
My Friend Irma (1949)
1955
You're Never Too Young (1955)
1952
Jumping Jacks (1952)
1956
Hollywood or Bust (1956)
1954
Living It Up (1954)
1959
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
1950
At War with the Army (1950)
1957
The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
1956
Pardners (1956)
1958
The Geisha Boy (1958)
1957
The Sad Sack (1957)
1960
The Bellboy (1960)
1953
Money From Home (1953)
1963
The Nutty Professor (1963)
1958
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
1961
The Ladies Man (1961)
1960
Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
1954
3 Ring Circus (1954)
1951
That's My Boy (1951)
1950
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
1960
Cinderfella (1960)
1965
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
1964
The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
1964
The Patsy (1964)
1965
The Family Jewels (1965)
1962
It's Only Money (1962)
1982
The King of Comedy (1982)
1961
The Errand Boy (1961)
1966
Three on a Couch (1966)
1963
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
1993
Arizona Dream (1993)
1966
Way... Way Out (1966)
1992
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
1995
Funny Bones (1995)
1980
Hardly Working (1980)
1967
The Big Mouth (1967)
1969
Hook, Line and Sinker (1969)
1968
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
1983
Cracking Up (1983)
1970
One More Time (1970)
2013
Max Rose (2013)
1989
Cookie (1989)
1970
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
1982
Slapstick Of Another Kind (1982)
Jerry Lewis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Stooge (1951) | Dean Martin | 10.00 | 215.6 | 215.60 | 11 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 96.1 | |
| 2 | Scared Stiff (1953) | Dean Martin | 10.60 | 190.6 | 190.60 | 15 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 95.0 | |
| 3 | Artists and Models (1955) | Dean Martin & Shirley MacLaine |
10.90 | 225.1 | 225.10 | 28 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 94.9 | |
| 2 | Sailor Beware (1952) | Dean Martin | 11.90 | 234.1 | 234.10 | 7 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 94.5 | |
| 6 | The Caddy (1953) | Dean Martin | 10.60 | 190.6 | 190.60 | 14 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 94.4 | |
| 8 | My Friend Irma (1949) | Dean Martin | 7.80 | 195.0 | 195.00 | 21 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 94.1 | |
| 9 | You're Never Too Young (1955) | Dean Martin | 9.70 | 201.4 | 201.40 | 30 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
| 7 | Jumping Jacks (1952) | Dean Martin | 11.10 | 217.8 | 217.80 | 9 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 93.0 | |
| 11 | Hollywood or Bust (1956) | Dean Martin | 9.40 | 184.8 | 184.80 | 27 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 9 | Living It Up (1954) | Dean Martin | 12.10 | 284.6 | 284.60 | 19 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 92.6 | |
| 12 | Don't Give Up the Ship (1959) | Dina Merrill | 11.40 | 205.3 | 205.30 | 19 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 92.3 | |
| 10 | At War with the Army (1950) | Dean Martin | 9.40 | 211.7 | 211.70 | 8 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 13 | The Delicate Delinquent (1957) | Darren McGavin | 9.70 | 187.0 | 187.00 | 19 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 14 | Pardners (1956) | Dean Martin | 10.30 | 201.6 | 201.60 | 25 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 15 | The Geisha Boy (1958) | Suzanne Pleshette | 9.10 | 164.3 | 164.30 | 17 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 16 | The Sad Sack (1957) | David Wayne | 10.00 | 192.5 | 192.50 | 18 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 17 | The Bellboy (1960) | Alex Gerry | 10.30 | 160.7 | 160.70 | 19 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 19 | Money From Home (1953) | Dean Martin | 10.60 | 190.6 | 190.60 | 16 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 89.7 | |
| 18 | The Nutty Professor (1963) | Stella Stevens | 11.40 | 143.3 | 143.30 | 23 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 89.7 | |
| 22 | Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958) | Connie Stevens | 8.90 | 159.1 | 159.10 | 22 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 88.7 | |
| 23 | The Ladies Man (1961) | Kathleen Freeman | 8.00 | 116.5 | 116.50 | 26 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 86.7 | |
| 24 | Visit to a Small Planet (1960) | Joan Blackman | 9.10 | 142.8 | 142.80 | 27 | 60 | 01 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 23 | 3 Ring Circus (1954) | Dean Martin | 11.10 | 261.1 | 261.10 | 23 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 86.0 | |
| 24 | That's My Boy (1951) | Dean Martin | 10.90 | 234.1 | 234.10 | 9 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 86.0 | |
| 25 | My Friend Irma Goes West (1950) | Dean Martin | 6.90 | 154.0 | 154.00 | 21 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 85.7 | |
| 26 | Cinderfella (1960) | Ed Wynn | 8.30 | 129.4 | 129.40 | 39 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 85.1 | |
| 27 | Boeing, Boeing (1965) | Tony Curtis | 8.10 | 85.7 | 85.70 | 36 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 80.6 | |
| 28 | The Disorderly Orderly (1964) | Everett Sloan | 7.70 | 88.5 | 88.50 | 37 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 79.4 | |
| 29 | The Patsy (1964) | Peter Lorre | 7.10 | 81.9 | 81.90 | 42 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 79.1 | |
| 30 | The Family Jewels (1965) | Sebastian Cabot | 7.00 | 74.3 | 74.30 | 41 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 78.6 | |
| 32 | It's Only Money (1962) | Jack Weston | 5.10 | 73.9 | 73.90 | 49 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 75.2 | |
| 31 | The King of Comedy (1982) | Robert DeNiro & Directed by Martin Scorsese |
2.50 | 9.3 | 9.30 | 113 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 75.0 | |
| 33 | The Errand Boy (1961) | Brian Donlevy | 7.10 | 104.1 | 104.10 | 30 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 74.8 | |
| 34 | Three on a Couch (1966) | Janet Leigh | 7.20 | 70.4 | 70.40 | 39 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 70.9 | |
| 36 | Who's Minding the Store? (1963) | Jill St. John | 6.30 | 78.8 | 78.80 | 46 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 64.7 | |
| 35 | Arizona Dream (1993) | Johnny Depp & Faye Dunaway |
0.10 | 0.3 | 0.30 | 224 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 64.3 | |
| 37 | Way... Way Out (1966) | Connie Stevens | 5.00 | 49.0 | 49.00 | 57 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 52.3 | |
| 38 | Mr. Saturday Night (1992) | Billy Crystal | 13.40 | 34.7 | 34.70 | 84 | 57 | 01 / 00 | 47.8 | |
| 39 | Funny Bones (1995) | Oliver Platt | 0.50 | 1.3 | 1.30 | 206 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 40.9 | |
| 40 | Hardly Working (1980) | Susan Oliver | 20.60 | 85.4 | 85.40 | 35 | 36 | 00 / 00 | 36.7 | |
| 41 | The Big Mouth (1967) | Buddy Lester | 5.00 | 44.5 | 44.50 | 48 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 32.2 | |
| 42 | Hook, Line and Sinker (1969) | Peter Lawford | 1.60 | 12.3 | 12.30 | 114 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 25.1 | |
| 43 | Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968) | Terry-Thomas | 3.10 | 25.9 | 25.90 | 91 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 24.8 | |
| 44 | Cracking Up (1983) | Sammy Davis Jr. | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 176 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 20.9 | |
| 45 | One More Time (1970) | Sammy Davis Jr. & Peter Lawford |
2.60 | 17.9 | 17.90 | 94 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 17.6 | |
| 45 | Max Rose (2013) | Kevin Pollack | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 239 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 15.5 | |
| 46 | Cookie (1989) | Peter Falk | 1.90 | 5.1 | 5.10 | 142 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 11.7 | |
| 47 | Which Way to the Front? (1970) | Jan Murray | 1.30 | 9.0 | 9.00 | 133 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 4.2 | |
| 48 | Slapstick Of Another Kind (1982) | Jim Backus | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 165 | 31 | 00 / 00 | 1.0 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Jerry Lewis
1. Joseph Levitch was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1928. He started using the name Joey Lewis when he started performing. Dropped “Joey” and picked “Jerry” to avoid confusion with comedy Joe E. Brown and boxer Joe Lewis.
2. The big break of Jerry Lewis’ career was when he met singer, Dean Martin, in 1946. Their partnership went from night clubs to radio appearances to an Ed Sullivan television appearance to movies in about 2 and half years. They would make a total of 17 movies (that includes one cameo) together from 1949 to 1956. Everyone of their movies was a box office hit….16 for 16 …you can not get better than that.
3. Jerry Lewis was a Top Ten Box Office Star 12 years. With Dean Martin…they were ranked 2nd in 1951, 1st in 1952, 2nd in 1953, 2nd in 1954, 7th in 1955 and 6th in 1956. Without Martin he was ranked 9th in 1957, 3rd in 1958, 9th in 1959, 7th in 1961, 7th in 1962 and 10th in 1963.
4. Jerry Lewis was honored for his contribution and development of the first “Video Assist” for the motion picture camera in 1966. This allowed him to view his performance while directing himself in his films. This is used extensively today in filmmaking, known as “Video Village.”
5. Jerry Lewis is beloved in France. He was presented the French Legion of Honor in 1984. Twice voted Best Foreign Director by the French film critics. In 2009, Jerry Lewis received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. His honorary Oscar® speech is in a You Tube video at the bottom of the page.
6. Jerry Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years; his students included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
7. Jerry Lewis hosted the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, from 1966 to 2010. The telethon has raised over 2.6 billion dollars. Lewis was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work with the telethon. When I was younger, you could not think about Labor Day without thinking about the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.
8. Jerry Lewis has been married twice; first to Patti Lewis from 1944 to 1983..they had six children. Lewis’ oldest son, Gary, is the lead singer for Gary Lewis & The Playboys. They had several pop hits in the 1960s. His second marriage is to SanDee Pitnick. They have been married since 1983 and they have one child.
9. Some Adam Sandler/Jerry Lewis stuff I found interesting. (1) They both have specialized in “man-child” movies. (2) Those “man-child” movies have been very successful at the box office. (3) They both starred in a movie called That’s My Boy. The Lewis movie was in 1951 while Sandler’s movie was made in 2012. (4) Darren McGavin and Johnny Depp are two actors that appeared in movies with both actors.
10. Jerry Lewis starred and directed probably the most famous movie never to be released. 1972’s The Day The Clown Cried has been locked in a Lewis vault for over 40 years now and has been seen by very few people. That might be changing in the near future (2025?). Check out this link for further information.
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Although I am not a huge fan of Mr. Lewis, I’m well aware of his importance as an actor and an influence within the american movie industry. He was- and still is- highly popular in Germany. So, with my deepest respect to his achievements, Rest in Peace Mr.Jerry Lewis.
Hey Lupino…thanks for sharing your thoughts on Jerry Lewis. I recently watched his Whose Minding The a Store movie…I thought it was ok….yet a few times my little girls wandered into the room and would laugh and scream at some of the scenes in the movie. The power of Lewis to get kids 50 years later to laugh like that. RIP.
Hey Bruce,
your story reminded me that there was a time when I DID love Jerry- as a kid. I remember Artists and Models, My Friend Irma, Hollywood or Bust and even one on the big screen, Way…Way out (aptly retitled “Jerry, the moon calf” for german intelectuals). What happens when one grows older? I doubt I could sit through one of those movies today without lamenting the waste of time…Sometimes I envy those who are still able to appreciate these films as adults a little bit…. must be german melancholy or something along that line 😉
Hey Lupino….the same thing has happened with my older boys….they used to love Adam Sandler….I got stuck in a movie theater watching My Little Nicky and Eight Crazy Nights….truly horrible movies….but they loved them back then. Now when I try to give them the DVDs I bought for them back then…..they do not even want them…..because they now realize how bad the movies are. I think the same thing happened with you and Jerry Lewis. I like the retitle of Jerry The Moon Calf….good feedback as always.
I’m absolutely devastated. He’s now reunited with his best mate Dean
Hey Allison…..I am right there with you. Sad day.
My heart is broken today
Hey Harriet…..know you are not alone. RIP Mr. Jerry Lewis
Jerry R.I.P. You were a wonderful actor……
Hey Dee….I agree with you. RIP. thanks for sharing your thoughts.
So sad today see him pass he best actor me and him had same birthday
Hey Paula….that bond will always be there. Thanks for stopping by on this very sad day.