Jerry Lewis’ unlikeliest project was also his unluckiest — so unlucky that it might never be finished. For a certain kind of movie buff, it is one of the last White Whales of lost cinema. In 1972, ...

On Wednesday, I became the first member of the public to watch something countless cinephiles have waited decades to see: Jerry Lewis’s footage of himself playing a clown in the Holocaust. Donated to ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Day the Clown Cried, an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish drama directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, is one of the most famous lost films in cinema history. The mysterious feature ...

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One of cinema’s most notorious films may soon be seen in its most complete form after being thought lost for 45 years. “The Day The Clown Cried,” a 1972 film featuring comedianJerry Lewis as Helmut ...

In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian on his yacht, Levy gingerly asked him about “The Day the Clown Cried.” Levy knew the ...

Some big news for fans of the late Jerry Lewis: A Swedish actor has revealed that he secretly copied and kept a notorious lost film by Lewis for decades. Hans Crispin, now 66, admitted in interviews ...