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The Disorderly Orderly
Synopsis
In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a patient after the antics of the frantic employee. Jerome takes on the symptoms of most of his patients and helps Susan Andrews (Susan Oliver) go from a woman considering suicide to an alluring woman of sensual confidence. When talkative patient Alice Pearce relates her maladies to Jerry, he hilariously has psychosomatic symptoms that mirror those of the woman.~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Frank Tashlin,
  • Writer:
    Norm Liebmann, Ed Haas, Frank Tashlin,
  • Producer:
    Paul Jones, Paul Jones,
  • Cinematographer:
    W. Wallace Kelley,
  • Editor:
    John Woodcock,
  • Executive Producer:
    Jerry Lewis,
  • Cast:
    Jerry Lewis, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman, Glenda Farrell, Susan Oliver,
  • Associate Producer:
    Arthur P. Schmidt,
  • Sound:
    Jim Miller,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Dorothy Yutzi,
  • Production Manager:
    William Davidson,
  • Set Decoration:
    Ray Moyer, Sam Comer,
  • Costume Design:
    Edith Head,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Bud Bashaw Jr.,
  • Screenplay:
    Frank Tashlin,
  • Sound Recordist:
    Charles Grenzbach, Hugo Grenzbach,
  • Story by:
    Norm Liebmann, Ed Haas,
  • Costumer:
    Shirlee Strahm,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Joseph J. Lilley,
  • Makeup Supervisor:
    Wally Westmore,
  • Art Direction:
    Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen,
  • Hair Supervisor:
    Nellie Manley,
  • Wardrobe Designer:
    Sy Devore,
  • Dialogue Coach:
    Marvin Weldon,
  • Theme Song Performance:
    Sammy Davis Jr.,
  • Assistant Director:
    Ralph Axness,
  • Conductor:
    Irvin Talbot,
  • Special Effects:
    Paul K. Lerpae,

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