The Nutty Professor News

Having banked three sold-out shows at South Point Showroom, Jerry Lewis is headed to the country where he is so legendarily beloved: France.

And Sunday morning proved to be no exception, as Eddie Murphy and girlfriend Paige Butcher stepped out in Los Angeles en route to a local coffeehouse.

Remember Martin & Lewis? The peerless comedy-and-music stage shows that rocked nightclubs across the country for a decade? Remember the timeless movies starring that great tandem? And the great performances after the act split up, "The Nutty Professor" - one of the greatest comedies ever made - and the astonishing dramatic turn opposite Robert De ... (more)

Jerry Lewis, the US comedy star from the 1950s and 1960s who later poured his efforts into raising money for muscular dystrophy research, will get a special tribute at next month's Cannes Film Festival, organisers said.

His dad was a band director and a piano teacher. His mom once worked at a music store in Waukesha.