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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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Check out Jerry Lewis’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
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Great list! Thank you!
Thank you Cherry….it has been one of our more popular pages for the last couple of years….he seems to have fans every where.
THIS MAN WAS AND STILL IN MY LIFE ALWAYS,I MAKE SILLY FACES SAY FUNNY THING,S CAUSE OF THIS MAN,I WILL MISS YOU JERRY LEWIS.
Hey Alan….thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mr. Lewis. He made the world smile…and smile for so many years…he will be missed.
Loved him! Watched every telethon! Will miss you Jerry!
Hey Terry….he will surely be missed.
There will never be anyone like Jerry Lewis again–we shall not see his like again. His ministry was to the MDA kids and to the comedy audience. He made so many people happy. He’s in Heaven now and we are the poorer for it. But we will meet again!
Hey Denise…great thoughts on Mr. Lewis. Watching his Labor Day telethon is one of my clearest childhood memories. It was bittersweet…I loved the telethon….but I knew it meant school was about to re-open. RIP
I grew up a fan of Jerry, and idolized him.
Then, as a professional stagehand, i had the (absolute!) pleasure touring with him on “Damn Yankees”. 9 months, including London’s West End.
He was, at times, a pain in the ass. But mostly he was engaging, enjoyable, personable, and…funny! He took care of his crew. And he respected us.
I’ve had many dinners (and an occasional adult beverage) with him and Sam, and used to play with Dani.
My thoughts are with them.
Hey Wayne….it is awesome you got to spend so much quality time with him. Those are some incredible memories you have. Love stories like that. Thanks for sharing them. Our thoughts to his family as well.