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   The Actors' Temple

   The Actors' Temple, officially named Congregation Ezrath Israel, is a synagogue founded in 1917 in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Many vaudeville, musical theater, television, and nightclub performers attended services there, including Sophie Tucker, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, and Edward G. Robinson.
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   Jerry Lewis

   He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, and recording and is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). ... He used the professional name Joey Lewis, but soon changed it Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.
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   Jack McGurn

   He was also played by K.L. Smith in the original The Untouchables television series and by Paul Stevens in the Playhouse 90 episode "Seven Against the Wall", depicting his role in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. McGurn's attempted killing of Joe E. Lewis was later immortalized in the movie The Joker Is Wild (1957), with Frank Sinatra as Lewis.
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   DeWitt Clinton High School

   Joe E. Lewis, entertainer (class of 1919) ... Jeff Wald, film and television producer, publicist (class of 1960)
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   Art Cohn

   He was the author of the Joe E. Lewis biography The Joker Is Wild, published by Random House in 1955, on which the movie The Joker Is Wild (1957) was based. He also wrote teleplays for unsold television show pilots Plane for Hire in 1957 and The Celeste Holm Show in 1958.
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   Dean Martin

   He borrowed the lovable-drunk shtick from Joe E. Lewis, but his convincing portrayals of heavy boozers in Some Came Running and Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo led to unsubstantiated claims of alcoholism. ... Jerry Lewis interview for the Archive of American Television
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   Sophie Tucker

   Television ... (One of the earliest publications of this in book form, in 1955, attributes this quotation, without the "honey," to Joe E. Lewis.
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   Ray Bolger

   Bolger toured in the USO shows with Joe E. Lewis in the Pacific Theater during World War II, was featured in the United Artists war-time film Stage Door Canteen (probably the best filmed example of his dancing and comic style that made him such a big Broadway star) and returned to MGM for a featured role in The Harvey Girls (1946). ... American television actors
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   Uptown, Chicago

   The diverse housing also includes ornate, terra-cotta clad hotels, immortalized in movies as Chicago Gangster Era apartment hotels. ... The 1957 movie The Joker Is Wild is based on the life of a regular performer at the Green Mill, Joe E. Lewis.
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    Dixie Roberts

    Dixie was on “Showboat” on NBC Television, in 1939. ... She opened shows for such notables as Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Danny Thomas, Henny Youngman, Ben Blue, Charlie Spivak, Joe E. Lewis, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Steve Allen, Woody Herman, and Benny Goodman.

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