BIBLIOGRAPHY

PHOTO AUTHOR AND TITLE EDITION
Gore Vidal 

Visit to a Small Planet

paperback, 127 pages, Signet Books / The new American Library of World Literature, New York 1960
The Jerry Lewis book of tricks and magic hardback , 56 pages , Random House , New York 1962 , LCCCN 62-8991

Jerry Lewis

Being a person

1st edition hardback, no numbered pages, Jerry Lewis 1963

 

 

 

 

reprint as : "Instruction book for ... Being a Person or ( just feeling better)" , paperback  no numbered pages , Executive Books    Mechanisburg 2003 , ISBN 0- 937539-74-0   

Richard Gehman

That Kid : the story of Jerry Lewis

paperback, 192 pages, Avon Books, New York 1964
R. Benayoun, B. Eisenschitz, B. Tavernier

Docteur Jerry et Mister Love (The Nutty Professor)

paperback, 56 pages, L'Avant-Scène du Cinema issue no.35, Paris March 1964
Jean-Louis Leutrat, Paul Simonci

Jerry Lewis

paperback, 110 pages, SERDOC / Premier Plan, Lyon April 1965
VV. AA.

Jerry Lewis a Man in Motion

paperback, no numbered pages, sd, sl, USA, printed by Pisani Printing Company for MDAA
Cahiers du Cinema: 197

Special Jerry Lewis

Christmas 1967 / january 1968, pages 25-69
Max Wilk

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

paperback, 189 pages, Panther Books, London 1968
Noël  Simsolo

Le monde de Jerry Lewis

paperback , pages 168 , édition du cerf , France 1969
Michael Avallone

One More Time

paperback, 144 pages, Popular Library, New York 1970
Gérard Recasens

Jerry Lewis

paperback , 189 pages, Editions Seghers about  60 b/w photos , Paris 1970

Jerry Lewis

The Total Film-Maker

hardback ed ,  209 pages , Random House , New York 1971 , ISBN 0-394-46757-4

 

 

 

 

 

paperback ed. , 208 pages, Random House , New York 1983, ISBN 0-394-46757-4 , LCCCN 79-102324

 

 

 

 

 

UK edition: hardback , pages 219 illustrated , Vision Press , London 1974 , ISBN 01 85478 023 8

 

 

 

 

 

French edition : Quand je fais du cinéma  (transl. By Alan Nordmehr ) , paperback , 228 pages , Editions Buchet / Chastel , Paris 1972

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish edition: El Oficio de Cineasta (translated by Esdras Parra), paperback, 196 pages, Barral Editores, Barcelona 1973, ISBN 84-211-0280-X

 

 

 

 

 

German edition : Wie ich Filme mache "The Total Film-Maker", 1st edition (transl. by Reiner Gansera), paperback, 199 pages, 59 pictures, Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1974, ISBN 3 446 11851 9

 

 

 

 

 

 German edition : Wie ich Filme mache " The Total Film-Maker " , 2nd edition (transl. by Reiner Gansera ) , paperback , 199 pages , Rowohlt Verlag , Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3 499 119277

 

 

 

 

 

Italian edition : Scusi dov'è il set? Confessioni di un film maker ( transl. by M.Teresa Crisigiovanni) , hardback , pages 138 , Arsenale editrice , Venezia 1983

Robert Benayoun

Bonjour Monsieur Lewis

 paperback , 371 pages , Eric Losfeld éditeur , Paris 1972    

 

 

 

 

2nd edition - paperback , 279 pages , Editions du Seuil , Paris 1989 , ISBN 2.02.010802.X

 La Revue du Cinéma  

N. 278

November 1973 pages 13 - 54
Reiner Gansera

Jerry Lewis, Films for fun,  Filmkritik no. 208 , April 1974

paperback , 47 pages , in German , München 1974
Arthur Marx

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself)

hardback, 288 pages, W.H. Allen & Co , London 1975 , ISBN 0 491 01902 5 
Giorgio Cremonini

Jerry Lewis

paperback , 117 pages , La Nuova Italia - Castoro Cinema, issue no. 72 , Firenze 1979
Cinema 80: 256

Entretien avec Jerry Lewis

April 1980, pages 37 - 46
King's story n.8

Jerry Lewis

Editions Neuilly Alfa, 1980, 46 pages
Jerry Lewis - l'Universe d'une Star Catalogue of the exhibition held at la Maison de la culture de Rennes , 8 Sept. - 12 Oct. 1980

Jerry Lewis with Herb Gluck

In Person

(1st edition) , hardback , 310 pages , Atheneum , New York 1982, ISBN 0-689-11290-4

 

 

 

 

(2nd edition) , paperback , 309 pages , Pinnacle Books New York 1983 , ISBN 0-523-42080-3

 

 

 

 

French first edition : Dr Jerry et Mr Lewis (translated by Françoise Mayneris), paperback , 256 pages. , Stock Cinema , Paris 1983 , ISBN 2-234-01625-8

 

 

 

 

 French 2nd edition: Dr Jerry et Mr Lewis, paperback , 257 pages , Stock / Ramsay poche Cinema , France 1987 , ISBN 2-85956-593-0

 

 

 

Spanish edition : Jerry Lewis por Jerry Lewis - Memorias ( translated by Alberto Claveria), paperback, 287 pages , Parsifal Ediciones , Barcelona 1991 , ISBN 84-87265-28-6

Pierre Etaix

Croquis de Jerry Lewis

paperback, pages (156) , Gilbert Salachas éditeur , Paris 1983, ISBN 2-209823-006 or 2-903823-14-6
Mauro Marchesini

Jerry Lewis, un comico a perdere

paperback, 218 pages, Casa editrice Mazziana, Verona 1983
Patti Lewis

I laffed till I cried

hardback, 167 pages, WRS Publishing , Waco 1993  , ISBN 1-56796-035-9
James L. Neibaur  and Ted Okuda

The Jerry Lewis Films - an Analytical Filmography of the Innovative Comic

hardback , 285 pages , McFarland & Co , Jefferson 1995 , ISBN 0-89950-961-4
Klaus Stawecki

Jerry Lewis sein Leben, seine Filme

hardback, 256 pages, Trescher Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-928409-39-5
Camillo Moscati

Jerry Lewis

paperback,  nnp (62) , Editoriale LoVecchio , Genova sd

Shawn Levy

King of Comedy, The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis

 

1st edition , hardback , 512 pages, St. Martin's Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-13248-4

 

 

 

 

 

2nd edition, paperback, 512 pages, St. Martin's Griffin , New York 1997 , ISBN 0-132-16878-0 

 

Frank Krutnik

Inventing Jerry Lewis

hardback, 317 pages, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 2000 , ISBN 1-56098-369-8
Murray Pomerance

Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film

paperback , 274 pages , New York University Press , New York 2002 , ISBN 0-8147-6706-0

Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan

Dean & Me (A Love Story)

Hardback , 342 pages , Doubleday 2005 , ISBN 0-7679-2086-4

 

APPENDIX

Giorgio Cremonini

Il Comico e l'Altro, il Comico nel cinema americano

paperback, 109 pages, Nuova Universale Cappelli, Bologna 1978
Claudio Carabba e Andrea Vannini

Sogni Proibiti, i comici di Hollywood dai Marx Brothers a Woody Allen

paperback, 180 pages, Vallecchi, Firenze 1979
Piercarlo Fabbio

Guida al Cinema Comico

paperback, 224 pages, Gammalibri, Milano 1979
Walter Anderson

Courage is a three letter word

hardback, 248 pages (about Jerry Lewis pag. 150-161), Random House, New York 1986, ISBN 0394546563
Camillo Moscati

Cine-Fumetto Comico

paperback,  144 pages, Jerry Lewis Pag. 69-70, Editoriale LoVecchio , Genova sd
Roger Garcia, Bernard Eisenschitz

Frank Tashlin

paperback, 255 pages, Editions du Festival du film de Locarno in collaboration with the British Film Institute - Editions Yellow Now, Locarno 1994 , ISBN 0-85170-462-X
Vieri Niccoli

Tutto esaurito

paperback , 152 pages , chapter on JL p.73-79 , Filema edizioni , Napoli 1997 , ISBN 88/86358/22/9
Franca Faldini

Roma Hollywood Roma, Totò ma non soltanto

paperback, 182 pages (Martin and Lewis: pag 113-124 ), Baldini & Castoldi, 1997

Nick Tosches

Dino, living high in the dirty business of dreams, 3rd edition

 

paperback, 572 pages , Vintage / Random House , London 1999 , ISBN 0 7493 9897 3

 

 

 

 

Italian edition : Dino, Dean Martin e la sporca fabbrica dei sogni (translated by Riccardo Vianello) , hardback , 641 pages , Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore , Milano 2004 , ISBN 88-8490-574-5

 

Giorgio Cremonini

Playtime, Viaggio non organizzato nel cinema comico

paperback, 216 pages, Lindau, Torino 2000 ISBN 88-7180-328-0
Alan Dale

Comedy is a Man in Trouble, Slapstick in American Movies

hardback, 271 pages, chapter on Jerry Lewis pag. 190-212 , University of Minnesota Press , Minneapolis 2000 , ISBN 0-8166-3657-5
Guido Fink

Non solo Woody Allen , la tradizione ebraica nel cinema americano

paperback , 299 pages , Marsilio Editori , Venezia 2001 , ISBN 88-317-7074-8

Ted Heller

Funnymen

hardback, 414 pages, (inspired by the story of Martin and Lewis), Simon & Schuster, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

paperback, 418 pages (inspired by the story of Martin and Lewis), Abacus Book, London 2002

Ricci Martin with Christopher Smith

That's Amore , A Son Remembers Dean Martin

hardback, 244 pages, Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham 2002, ISBN 0-87833-272-3
Deana Martin with Wendy Holden

 Memories Are Made of This , Dean Martin through his daughter's eyes

foreword by Jerry Lewis, hardback, 300 pages, Harmony Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-4000-5043-X
Peter Bogdanovich

Who the hell's in it , Portraits and conversations

 

hardback, 528 pages (chapters on Jerry Lewis pages 142-216 , on Dean Martin pages 217-231) , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2004, ISBN 0-375-40010-9
Athos Bigongiali

Il Clown

paperback, 200 pages (a fictional novel with Jerry Lewis filming The Day the Clown Cried), Giunti 2006, ISBN 8809047478
Bibliography compiled by Davide Ciaccia                        Edited by Roberto Ferrari