On October 13, 1959, Jerry Lewis starred in a live TV drama — a remake of the oft-remade The Jazz Singer. Rarely if ever seen since then, it's going to get a DVD release early next year. Here's a link if you want to advance order it and here's a brief preview…
The fellow playing the boss in this clip is Del Moore, who was in practically everything Jerry did in the late fifties and sixties. He was even Jerry's announcer/sidekick on the short-lived live two-hour talk show Jerry did in prime time in 1963. The guy talking to him is comedian Joey Faye…and the cast also includes Anna Maria Alberghetti, Molly Picon, Alan Reed (just before he signed on to become Fred Flintstone) and playing Jerry's character as a boy, Barry Gordon.
Incidentally, the Encore channel is now running a documentary on Jer. It's called Jerry Lewis: Method to the Madness and I'm hearing good things about it. I just set my TiVo to record it tomorrow.