‘Ashamed. Embarrassed’: Jerry Lewis’s infamous Holocaust clown film that never was

A new documentary explores the mystery behind The Day the Clown Cried, a never-finished, never-released 1970s movie set in a second world war death camp ...
Variety

How Footage From Jerry Lewis’ Dark Comedy About a Concentration Camp Came to Be Seen for First Time

For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”? Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ funnyman Jerry Lewis’ infamously terrible Holocaust movie, is having a new moment. But you still can’t watch it.

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 ...
Houston Press

Jerry Lewis Soldiers Through the Mawkish Drama Max Rose

Still and silent, Jerry Lewis slumps there like old furniture in the lifeless house in which the first half of Daniel Noah’s coming-of-old-age drama Max Rose molders. The film is a fiction, a tidy and ...
Deadline.com

Martin Scorsese Traces The History Of Lost Jerry Lewis Holocaust Movie In Venice Doc ‘From Darkness To Light’ — First Look Clip

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 ...
The Southern Illinoisan

Jerry Lewis, Hollywood survivor, showman, dies at 91

LOS ANGELES — Jerry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and the sorts of seismic shifts that take ...