The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
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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
Complete Cast:
- Jerry Lewis - Jerome Littlefield
- Everett Sloane - Mr. Tuffington
- Kathleen Freeman - Maggie Higgins
- Del Moore - Dr. Davenport
- Barbara Nichols - Actress
- Benny Rubin - Waiter
- Milton Frome
- Murray Alper
- Richard Deacon - Mr. Courtney
- Michael Ross - Ambulance Driver
- Glenda Farrell - Dr. Jean Howard
- Karen Sharpe - Julie Blair
- Susan Oliver - Susan Andrews
- Jack E. Leonard - Fat Jack
- Alice Pearce - Talkative Patient
- Frank Scannell - Mr. Mealy
- John Macchia
- Mike Mazurki
- William Wellman, Jr. - Driver
- Herbie Faye - Mrs. Welles
- Director(s):
- Frank Tashlin
- Writer(s):
- Frank Tashlin
- Producer(s):
- Paul Jones, Jerry Lewis
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