Jerry Lewis's Opening Monologue: 1957 Oscars

Host Jerry Lewis and New York host Celeste Holm open the 29th Academy Awards. Featuring Academy President George Seaton. and a presentation of the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards by Mercedes McCambridge and Robert Stack.

[@TurnerLaraine]

Jerry did such a dignified job--and still funny. Another side of Jerry I never saw. Good job!

[@haveabarryniceday238]

Rest In Peace Jerry love you 😘

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

There is no way Jerry Lewis is resting in peace!

[@drstrangelove6558]

Lewis should have won an Oscar for this speech alone!;):)

[@AbbeBuck]

dr strangelove yeah! I loved it!

[@shawnbowers4836]

The shriek that you hear @16:28(upon realizing her film won!) is that of my mother-in-law, Kathrine Dana Shaw, the producer of the Doc Short, "The True Story Of The Civil War." She is 97 and currently lives in Los Angeles w/her family.

[@danielrausch7466]

K

[@timotundy]

She’s 101 now

[@MichaelJ44]

@@timotundymight not be

[@Caroline.A.joseph]

Jerry Lewis is charm, humour, handsome, eloquent and a buffon.. 😘

[@allenjones3130]

This Oscar ceremony was simulcast on NBC Television and Radio.

[@toniwilson1579]

who would of ever guess Jerry would be known as the total film maker. He ended up doing every job you could think of in serval of his film. Looking back prefect choice to me these awards.

[@thejerseyj5479]

Time should have stopped in the mid to late 50's. The best time in history.

[@XxXxTwofirstnames69420xXxXx]

Damn boomers

[@ItzMeOB]

Oh gosh...I miss Jerry. We don't have hosts like this for Oscars anymore, really sad.

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Stop with the drama! Each show is unique!

[@Kareragirl]

Jerry was a terrible human being who ended up disinheriting his children. I want to see fewer megalomaniacs at awards shows, not more.

[@marcocaneira]

@@Kareragirl have you wondered why he did that ?

[@vonholland64]

Everything has changed now. Seems to have regressed to me

[@akrenwinkle]

​@@marcocaneiraI'll go out on a limb... because he was evil, crazy, malevolent?

[@markruane3660]

Bob hope was still the best host the oscars ever had!!!

[@virginiaavaca1641]

GRANDIOSO MARVILLOSO ÚNICO REALMENTE NOS A HECHO. LLORAR DE RISA. COMO SOLO UN GRAN ARTISTA COMO EL SIEMPRE LO LOGRÓ SIEMPRE EN NUESTROS CORAZONES 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍🙋🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@noeliavelazquez8350]

Se merece un millon de Oscars! Mi jerry amadooo!♥♥♥♥♥

[@elliestar88]

I had no idea that Jerry hosted the Oscars 3 times

[@drstrangelove6558]

Lewis is the Funniest and Best Hosted Actor ever at the Oscars tiad with hope imo!;)

[@willisknapick4405]

King & I, Ten Commandments, Giant, Around the World....impressive lineup!

[@coolkidsdiscord]

Wow! Robert Stack... The guy that would scare the crap out of you in the eighties on "unsolved mysteries"

[@Zodliness]

The Oscars aren't like they used to be back in the glorious 50's. 👍🏻‍

[@thejerseyj5479]

"The silent World" is a fantastic documentary about life in the deep of the oceans. Jaques Yves Cousteau was a brilliant man who co-invented scuba and was a great filmmaker. PS, young Mercedes McCambridge was really quite beautiful and did not yet have that husky voice she was known to have later.

[@andreandre7055]

Starts at 7:15

[@MatsThyWit]

Thank you. You saved me a lot of annoying, pointless preamble.

[@pegcage]

For a buffoon, Jerry was a brilliant man.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Jerry was a sharp minded, hard driving businessman. Not a buffoon. You confuse his movie roles with his reality. Just like John Wayne was not a cowboy. He was a Hollywood actor. Period.

[@EnlightenedRogue24]

7:19 is why you clicked this video. ☝️🥴

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Great job, Jerry!!

[@joancarlestomas]

Please, keep the Oscar videos coming!

[@diamondkelly6109]

I'm surprise that the winners didn't make a speech back then!🤨

[@ermelindarosa1485]

Gostaria muito de entender o q falam . Todos os vídeos de Jerry são em inglês. N tem um legendado? Sou fã dele mas n falo inglês.

[@ElmwoodParkHulk]

This was when they made good films , today they will mostly go to video or Netflix.....the movie business has gone hill and continues to spiral down . I haven't gone in years and don't see myself going anytime soon .

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

Class and style:) ....nowadays? Blaaaaaaa

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Jerry is heavy. He doesn’t look like “the kid.” Look at him and Dean before the film , Partners.

[@MatsThyWit]

That's because he was in his 30s and not 18 years old like he was when he started with Dean.

[@jerrylewisthekid5479]

See it in the movie The Bellboy. He was thin again.

[@thegirlleastlikelyto]

I feel like that's normal for most men as they hit their thirties, their metabolisms slow down. Besides he was really very skinny in his early days and sometimes looked kind of gaunt, he is just a normal healthy weight here tbh. And as others have said in the early 60's he got quite skinny again.

[@romixtasso3301]

He was soooo handsome

[@maryrevis3367]

El Maleh Rachamim is a Jewish prayer for the rest of the departed. God, filled with mercy, dwelling in the heavens' heights, bring proper rest beneath the wings of your Shechinah, amid the ranks of the holy and the pure, illuminating like the brilliance of the skies the souls of our beloved and our blameless who went to their eternal place of rest. May You who are the source of mercy shelter them beneath Your wings eternally, and bind their souls among the living, that they may rest in peace. And let us say: Amen. Rest peacefully sweet man!! 😥

[@kestnerjerri28]

So awesome, not like the now crap!

[@garakdeog9915]

brain washed much?

[@LandondeeL]

It's been too long since a New York portion was part of the Oscars (indeed this was the last one). With so much filmmaking being done in New York once again, it's time that the NYC portion be reinstated permanently.

[@EnlightenedRogue24]

No, the Oscars and all of Hollyweird needs to be burned to the ground. 🔥🔥🔥☝️🥴

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Jacque Cousteau's work was the beginning of the awareness of wildlife!!

[@eamonngaynor5762]

It's a shame there was such a nasty streak in him

[@aminahshabazz8689]

Who's big idea was it to have a bi-coastal Awards program on LIVE TV?!! A mess. 😒

[@domeidou001]

Top 5 Movies of 2014: 1. Interstellar 2. The Imitation Game 3. Boyhood 4. Birdman 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

[@JavierPerez-rj7md]

2-5 of the movies on your list have little to zero special effects. I'm glad you we're able to overshadow those movies by putting a movie with only special effects as number 1 on your list. I'm happy everyone has an opinion though nice list. #boyhood2015

[@markpiersall9815]

7:15 Jerry Lewis introduced.

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Biggest travesty of this ceremony not honouring James dean with posthumous Oscar!

[@b703144]

Monologue starts 7:25

[@drstrangelove6558]

There is much more funny with comedic momonts at the Oscars insead when they are serios at the Oscars!

[@loriraymond6789]

WALT DISNEY WAS THERE WTF

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Wow! Huge car ads!! Very tacky!

[@jl3322]

Lewis was hated by so many and love by few

[@vonholland64]

He’s an interesting man

[@showtime7466]

:) :)

[@johncochran8648]

Why all this Jerry Lewis? The man was not particularly funny.

[@akrenwinkle]

There's no right or wrong about "funny." I find Lewis totally lacking any funny qualities, but at the same time, I can see why some would think the opposite.

[@johnbarry0076]

He was as funny as a brick,,,,, Dean Martin helped him.

[@marym5037]

Haters hate...yeah..that's what they do ;) Jerry was the most amazing man ever! He was fantastic, wonderful, talented, funny, intelligent, charming...and many many more beautiful things! Thank you Mr Lewis for the joy and the laughter! Love you

[@jorhay1]

Some people just don’t find him funny, which is preference, not hate. Technically speaking, his delivery, timing, add libs, body angles, reactions, and repertoire of zingers, is basically flawless textbook comedy. It’s true he made people laugh, that was his job. When he died, he left his wife of decades, and his children, nothing. Raised a fortune for muscular dystrophy though. All men and women are flawed. Jerry was no exception. If you ever had the chance to bump into him off stage, your glowing view of him would probably change. He wasn’t a very nice, or even happy man.

[@marym5037]

@@jorhay1 I do not think that I would really care about that to be honest with you! I appreciate the man, his genius, and his work, and I personally always found him very funny. If he wasn't nice to someone or was unhappy it is really not my business! I can only feel for him and I know that no one is perfect! That surely doesn't change my mind about his talent or the joy he gave me through his movies and his theatrical performances. His personal life is his definitely not mine :) Moreover, we really do not know ANYTHING about his will! His son Chris stated that he left all of the rights to his movies and everything he has ever done to his boys. The will is just a document and there are other ways to leave things to your children. I don' t know what he did or what he did not do! I don't know him or his children so I let others judge the situation...I don't do that kind of thing! And yes! I wrote "hate" because I read several hateful comments directed towards him by people that obviously don't know him at all! I found that extremely mean! That's all!

[@renatekoell]

@@marym5037 I do agree with you in all aspects.

[@elenagutierrez7357]

It always was boring! lol.

[@eamonngaynor5762]

It's a shame there was such a nasty streak in him