King Of Comedy by Shawn Levy

Author:Shawn Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250122605
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 2016-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

If he was worried that he might spread himself too thin, he didn’t show it. Starting in late July, he shot The Errand Boy, which wrapped on September 1, 1961, five days ahead of schedule, at a budget of $1.79 million. There were few problems or personality conflicts (though Jerry did chew out veteran comic Fritz Feld when the sixty-two-year-old man couldn’t reproduce his dance steps exactly), and there were no mountains of technology to scale. The company files on the film are dotted with carbon copies of telegrams of thanks and congratulations from Jerry to the cast and crew. The speedy completion of the film was due, in part, to the diligence of the director and his employees: They shot past 11 P.M. several times and wrapped up work at 1:20 A.M. on the last day of shooting.

Still, the thing went so smoothly that he could take a night off to team up with Bobby Darin on the pregame show of an Angels-Yankee broadcast. He was a big baseball fan—his Errand Boy cast notes include a handwritten account of a discussion he had with cameo player Leo Durocher about which games the Dodgers needed to win to secure the pennant—but when he showed up with Darin, reporters didn’t care so much about his ability as a sports prognosticator as about the whiff in the air of a possible new partnership. He’d always been asked the same questions whenever he showed up to perform with a singer, so he knew how to brush them off. And he shared a secret about himself and Dean with UPI’s Rick DuBrow: “You know what a team like that is? It’s two guys scared to death who need each other. That’s all it is. It’s pretty cozy to see someone up there. It’s murder up there alone. Try it.”

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