The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1956
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- Jerry Lewis's opening monologue at the 28th Academy Awards®, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre on Wednesday, March 21, 1956. Featuring an introduction by Academy President George Seaton and appearances by New York hosts Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Eleanor Parker presents the Oscars for Documentary Short Subject to Walt Disney for "Men against the Arctic," and for Documentary Feature to Nancy Hamilton for "Helen Keller in Her Story." Sal Mineo presents the Oscar for Sound Recording to Fred Hynes for "Oklahoma!"
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
Soooo cuuuuuute!!
Jerry was gorgeous his whooooole life!!
These old opening are way better than today's opening , Pure class
...if I had my way, I'd set it back to this format.
I love it. No hidden agenda so classy and clean.
Show business is just that, a business. As political as any, they just used to hide it better that’s all
I was born the night this took place, March 21, 1956. My mother used to tell me that the nurses were more interested in watching the Academy Awards on the TV than they were in helping with the delivery!
Jerry was just so good :)
in the days when gags were gags, clean, fun, classy
Jerry was a tireless workaholic, ... and his delivery is almost flawless. a truly brilliant comedic mind. and OF COURSE ! it takes a tremendous EGO with nerves of steel to pull all of this off ! ... *good job, Jerry. Hope you make it to triple figures. what an amazing life !*
@@salvation4all313 The usual ignorant never fails. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JERRY LEEE LEWIS THE SINGER !!! Jerry Lewis has been married TWICE and NEVER married OR HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COUSIN !!
@@jerrylewisthekid5479 .. This comedian Jerry Lewis was a low-life as well.
In February 2022, Vanity Fair published a special issue detailing several women who accused Lewis of various acts of sexual harassment, and verbal abuse. The claims come from several actresses who worked with him in the 1960s, and who had previously praised Lewis and his work in their interviews. These actresses were identified as Karen Sharpe, Hope Holiday, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Lainie Kazan.
@@jerrylewisthekid5479 ...Jerry Lewis, while married, also openly pursued relationships with other women and gave unapologetic interviews about his infidelity, revealing his affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich to People Magazine in 2011.
@@salvation4all313 Have you never cheated? Tony Curtis got married SIX TIMES! He constantly cheated on his first wife and it seems that the child that Marilyn Monroe had aborted was Curtis's. EVERYONE in Hollywood cheated on their wives and their wives on their husbands. Dean Martin has ALWAYS cheated on his wives. He cheated on Betty with June Allyson and a long list of other women. He ABANDONED Betty and her four still children to marry Jeanne (who knew Dean was married), managed to file for bankruptcy to stop paying alimony to his first wife (whom he called "that other"), and then when that poor woman who was not yet thirty years old, from the great pain, became an alcoholic and took away his children too! He has always betrayed Jeanne himself, even with the daughter of an American mobster while Jeanne was giving birth to one of their daughters! He divorced Jeanne, got married for the third time, divorced a third time, he kept getting engaged to girls younger than his own daughters and then he died ALONE! You accuse Jerry who always recognized his mistakes, because he was a human and imperfect person while you deify a man who was worse than him. YOU HATERS OF LEWIS WHO HATE SOMEONE WHO HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING TO YOU ARE JUST MISERABLE FAILURES.
@@salvation4all313 The accusations of now old women to a man who cannot defend himself because by now dead he is pure SHIT. If that were true, they must have spoken when Lewis was still alive, old but alive. At 90, he wasn't as powerful as he was at 30! Lewis's sets were all and always open to the public. Anyone could enter the set, dressing rooms, etc. So a man who was Paramount's highest paid actor at 30, made family movies, with an open set would have been unconscious enough to physically abuse women. Read all the testimonials of the actresses who worked with him and who speak well of him. Not the anti-Semitic shit of you Americans
Jerry i love yoooooooouuuuu!!!!
this makes me so happy
my father was not even born during this time.. love every bit of!
spot on about the freeways in LA..hahaha..brilliant. This was great..Jerry was good and the delivery on the monologue was great. Spot on
+john banks He was great.
Ahhhh those were the real days!
Ain't Jerry (Lewis) the handsomest thing. Awwww
Yes he was!
I never realized what a handsome man he was. He was only 30 in this and such a success.
He was a nasty man. Arrogant and rude in person on a professional level.
@@nanabusterd
Did you work with him??
@@daniellebourgade8701 No, he read stupid gossip magazines.
awww Lady Colbert is 😍😍😍
Another great opening. I see Joan Collins, Edith Head and Jean Louis in the opening. That blonde is familiar too but her name escapes me... Wonderful to see the elegant Eleanor Parker presenting an Oscar. She was a much much underrated actress who deserved an Oscar herself. And sad Sal looking sensational.If only this years show could deliver these kinds of thrills....
The blonde was Cleo Moore!
Jerry is doing the Carson schtick of building in bad jokes which he then makes fun of - which gets laughs. People always think Carson came up with that, but Jerry here is five full years ahead of Carson even thinking about hosting a chat show. Jerry Lewis has been one of the great Hollywood innovators.
James There’s nothing new under the sun. Bob Hope and others did that.
So did Ovid.
What ??? Oldest gig on the books....you think Lewis invented this ????..... wtf.
Jerry was decades ahead of his time with his sense of humor. Here he has perfected the Carson routine - how to work a bad joke into a good one, on purpose - while Johnny was still trying to get bit parts in sitcoms.
James Still love Jerry. PURE GENIUS.
Lewis was a Hack.
James jerry lewis had more talent in his little finger than he had in the rest of his body
Notice how he is being funny without getting political? Take notes Hollywood, this is what we want. Clean, funny humor
He was funny?
Too late. They're exposed.
Satirist make jokes about the human condition including, politics, comedians just tell jokes, they are both needed and appreciated. I for one never thought Jerry Lewis was funny, it's all a matter of taste
I just hope they’ll never let Gervais host
I love the sync jumps between NY and LA
...how about starting a little earlier and adding London (Royal Alber Hall) to the live mix.
Ah..Sal Mineola
.He was nominated for Rebel also,best supporting actor!!! $
So elegant. Even the way he walks.
Old days were better
This was the first Oscar Telecast I viewed...live...in the lobby of the dorm at Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana) where I lived at the time (and it's still there).
I haven't missed an Oscar telecast since!
Wayne Beau It was one of the 1st televised. Actually, the f1st Oscars televised was 3 years earlier, ,1953; at the 25th Annual Academy Awards.
Wayne Beau fortunately the hosts these days are funny and talented
@@davehallett3128 The Hosts these days are nothing but carrier pigeons for their cause, ...Their pathetic & annoying.... Cheers
Oh yes! Jerry wasn't lying. In real life he was the brains and shrewed driving force behind Martin and Lewis! He made the decisions! Dean was just a pretty face and played the smart one on film! Jerry the baphoon was an act!!! Brilliant! 💋
You were there?
The Rat Pack didn't invite Jerry Lewis with them because Jerry would be the star
A year after we lost the icon James dean should have given him Oscar for giant
The jokes still being great and the timing, the band, everything is perfect
People, this is highly practiced TV. Not reality. Wake up!
Back when Hollywood had class, not trash.
I love Sal Mineo 😍
He was transgender
@@johnmamo653 he was bi but not trans. 😑
Same he was just wonderful
@@Gachilyn thank you there is always some idiot in the comment section
JUst 3 months later dean and jerry were through with each other....July 1956
Rip Andre Previn!
Ditto!
yeah, but what was that jumble of music??
Eleanor Parker, who won an Academy that night and also presented, was lovely.
In fact, she won a total of THREE academy awards. I always thought she looked like Lana Turner.
A little Jerry goes a long, long way...
Lewis is great!!
Jerry was always his own biggest fan
+raz mataz Jerry was always a bigger fan of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, Do you diss Jerry because he's a Jew? I'm a big Jerry Lewis fan, and golly I'm not French.
+raz mataz Whatever happened to his musical version of his Nutty Professor movie? I've yet to hear any songs from it. Last I heard it was on Broadway, but I don't believe it. It supposedly opened in Nashville.
+SonyXBOXNintendo The French also thinks his childishness is great.
I wonder how many people caught the KOOL reference.
seeing the retro ACADEMY OSCARS gives me chills one award show i look forward to seeing every year is OSCARS
James Dean would have been there if it weren't for his death in the car accident nearly six months before. So tragic. RIP, JD.
That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas James Dean deserved the Oscar for, " East of Eden." What a loss for us all ! He would be nominated the following year. for "GIANT ," unfortunately he would lose again.
Sal Mineo
Never realised Jerry and Bob were stand ups. Good delivery.
I think Jerry should host it today. ..oh wait a min... 😆
Jerry Lewis, now there's a comic ! The guy was and still is a huge talent. Unlike that Bob Hope dull no talent that followed him
+atheistexchristian God and His angels beckon you to return to Christianity.
Roger Wilco I may return to a true God if I find out that true God exists. However, there are 40,000 different Christian denominations all claiming to have the absolute truth ...so exactly which one of those 40,000 is "beckoning" me?
atheistexchristian
Very well said! Indeed, that's the goofy part of it. I will say, though, God is always near us. Just call on Him for help. Forget the bricks and mortar churches. God works in mysterious ways. Ask Him for help and see what happens. If it's really important, God is no slowpoke! I will testify to that. And God Bless You! :)
Roger Wilco Thanks . I will try. Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones.
atheistexchristian
Very same to you, dear friend! :) Rejoice, tis 70 degrees in NYC!
I was there
Love those vintage RCA 77-DX mics.
What bullshit about secret ballots. The AAs are fixed.
+Roger Wilco They certainly are now.. and before that they were "bought" by whoever paid the most for marketing.. and before that.. they were dictated by the then powerful studios. They are now a joke.
+John Roy Hi Roy! Good day to you!
One of the biggest travesties ever in the history of the Academy Awards was in 2006 when the Three Six Mafia won for their enchanting rendition of "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" from 'Hustle and Flow' . They put the camera on legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman during the ceremony to get his reaction.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Analogue technology TV days.
that voice
I thought the volume was high enough!!
Gotta wait till to the very end to see an adorable Sal Mineo, a nominee for Rebel Without a Cause.
onirannam I just wanted to see sal lol
What a baby face ! Such a talent. So sad!
nothing like classic
I'm sure a lot of people weren't pleased at the time that Jerry was without Dean, & because of that wanted him 2 fall on his face ....not meaning Dean necessarily. After all Jerry was still a kid in a lot of Hollywood eyes of the time. Could this have added to the strain on the Martin & Lewis partnership. After all they officially parted several months later July 25, 1956. Jerry was spectacular ! He would return in 1959 to host another ceremony...
0:18 - Ah yes, Mr. Andrew Preview himself 😁
Wow, the winners aren’t lecturing their audience, how refreshing.
They aren't reading all the nominations. Only the winners. And the speeches are super short!
When Hollywood started to go wrong for awards ceremony is when they decided they had the power to change the world view on issues. I note Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda and the like for fowarding this thinking but I could be wrong. They started to believe their own hype. They are entertainers and should stick to that. Plus the old hollywood tried to help the another because they were aware of how hard life is. The young crowd want to make trouble for attention/drama...not.
I see Joan Collins, Cleo Moore, and Edith Head in the audience.
Isn't that Jack Benny toward the back there? There are several other people that I half-recognize, but don't know their names. As for Joan - she definitely is recognizable, even if her look changed dramatically after this.
Insane concept "let's have a host for the host" :(
Crazy , practically all these people have passed away .
Think everyone on this clip are RIP
Jerry Lewis is still alive and well.
Charles Hazard Jerry Lewis is still alive...
Donazify met him two years ago
+Charles Hazard Andre Previn is very much with us.
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Look what the president is talking about. How unusual it is for countries to be working together? Compared to today when it is standard
RIP Jerry Lewis.
Jerry will turn 90 next month!
+norelco pc The ONLY great from the Golden years still going and performing!!! bar none! Jerry is a true legend!
RIP Jerry Lewis
Things don't change much do they?
I hear ya loud and clear brother!
A few months later he and Dean would split.
So...what's up with the big screen video screen behind Jerry? This is 1956. Can't find anything on the tech at that time that relates to this.
1.04, the guy on the first row looking up looks pretty much like Telly Savalas. I mean the later Telly from the Kojak era. Anyone knows who is the guy?
Kojak was done in the 70s.................
He never made fun of Ike!!!
Dean and Jerry broke up this same year.
They had a video projector up there? How was that possible in 1956
It was film not video. That's how. 😒
Getting the timing right to pull that off made it look live. Very clever. I never would have expected that back then.
@@aminahshabazz8689 No, no, look at 7:16, it's a live feed. How did they do that in 1956??? Rudimentary video projectors came out in the early 70s. Was it a prototype? A huge cathode tube tv screen? That is amazing for that era...
RCA started using rear projection in 1947.
No slapping.
3:47
Eleanor Parker looks very classy. She deserves the Oscar for her role as Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody, with Glenn Ford. Such a miss, such a sigh...
She, in fact, was a THREE time academy award winner.
Someone older than me might know... was the announcer at the beginning Bennett Cerf?
+John Roy That was George Seton, a very prolific writer/director. One of his famous movies was "Miracle on 34th Street," which was adapted from a story by Valentine Davies. Seton does resemble Cerf. He is like Cerf without the lisp. :)
+Roger Wilco Seaton played the original Lone Ranger on radio originating from WXYZ, Detroit, where he was an announcer. But the role we all recall was given to Brace Beemer, who looked like the Lone Ranger. He was also Sgt Preston of the Yukon on radio, also originating from WXYZ.
Wow! Roger Wilco is a living library of information. One thing about Bennett Cerf. I think he often had inside information on who the celebrity guests were on "What's My Line" because he knew too much. I watched all the old shows on CZcams 2 years ago.
+John Roy John, you just happened to pick a topic I knew a little something about. :) Read Bennett Cerf's autobiography, if you can still find in in the library. He was a sharp businessman. He knew he wanted to be a publisher early in life. He told how he and his buddy made money early in the game by buying some classic libraries that weren't marketed well. In contrast, I self-publish and make little money. But I have a good time.
Bennett Cerf didn't have to compete with Amazon Kindle
BRING BACK BILLY CRYSTAL... FROM NOW ON!
Anyone here from GMM...?
Hmmm... Someone has an overactive hand on the laugh and applause track. Note that there are no live shots of audience laughing/applauding.
Year i was born
Me too.
0:47 how old is Charlize Theron again?
😂😂😂
Looks like Joan Collins at 1:10 ....
Joanne Woodward with husband
Paul Newman (i think)
That audience weren't helping Jerry!
Bor-ring. As per usual. The opening monologues with Lewis and Hope et al are kind of like being stuck in the mud. Claudette Colbert is a charmer and Eleanor Parker a incredible looker and Sal Mineo ditto. But all is as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes.
Jerry is awesome, real and I love his ad libbing when his jokes don't work, ala Johnny Carson, give your head a shake Mac and grab a Mic and show us all how it's done.........crickets...cricketing, were waiting.....................
You'd know a lot about sticks in mud, huh?
America had class and still can get back to the best of what American was and is .............Trump 2020
Even then the show ran too long.
Let's hope that Jerry Lewis's script writers were promptly fired after this awful 1956 ceremony.
He wasn't a stand up....and it shows....and this is not his stuff...he wasn't a writer....but hey....the king of the Hollywood Jews opens the Oscar's how fitting.
What a huge waste of money. No need for such drama.
And VERY white.
Good to see that he was such a pathetic comic from 1956,what a poor show.
NO
He is brilliant .
And you are a pathetic hater. He will be remembered forever, WHO are you?
Jerry i love yoooooooouuuuu!!!!