The Geisha Boy (Paramount Pictures) (1958)

Jerry Lewis at Local Theatre In New Comedy The Geisha Boy’ (Day Before Opening) Tomorrow is the day that will bring to movie fans the special kind of fun and laughter they haven’t enjoyed since the last Jerry Lewis picture, “Rock-a-Bye Baby.” It is the day that Jerry’s new Paramount production, ‘“‘The Geisha Boy,” in Tech Still No. 10326-1 Mat 1A JERRY LEWIS CRASHES THE ORIENT in his newest Paramount laugh hit, ““The Geisha Boy,”’ which arrives ..... at the:s)<327: Theatre. The VistaVision and Technicolor comedy co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa. ‘The Geisha Boy’ Next The new Jerry Lewis picture, “The Geisha Boy,” is the next attraction mabe tne wie eee. Theatre. The Paramount comedy, in Technicolor and _ VistaVision, which Opens “thereon si. 4205 , co-stars Jerry with Marie (“The Body’) McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa. “The Geisha Boy,’ in which Jerry plays a bungling magician on a U.S.O. tour to the Orient, introduces a number of new personalities—Suzanne Pleshette, Nobu Atsumi McCarthy, Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano, Ryuzo Demura. Also to be seen in uproarious action are the Los Angeles Dodgers. ® nicolor and VistaVision, opens at thes 4 ian coe Theatre, with Marie (“The Body”) McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa co-starred. “The Geisha Boy“ gives Jerry new fields of activity—this time he carries on in Japan and Korea —and word has it that he makes the most of them, as only he can. The comedian will be seen in the role of an inept magician with a U.S.O. unit, whose rabbit (Harry Hare, according to the billing) is a lot cleverer than he is. Jerry meets a beautiful Japanese girl (Nobu Atsumi McCarthy) and her cute little nephew (Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano), who attaches himself to the entertainer in a way that complicates Jerry’s life hilariously. Marie McDonald has the fitting role of a screen and _ television glamour star of the U.S.O. troupe that includes Jerry, much to her regret, for he makes her life miserable (always accidentally, of course) from the moment they take off for the Orient. Hayakawa, by an odd coincidence, plays a Japanese bridge-builder, stern father of Nobu, who figures in a riotous spoof of “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” one of the comedy highlights of the picture. Los Angeles Dodgers In Jerry Lewis Film (Plant this on Sports Page) One of the most hilarious sequences in Jerry Lewis’s new Paramount comedy, “The Geisha Boy,” which comes ...... COMUNE ace Theatre, features the Los Angeles Dodgers. In their first film appearance since coming to the California city, the Dodgers play an exhibition game against a top Japanese team in Tokyo. To oppose them Lewis engaged top players from the two leading local Japanese ball teams, the Little Tokyo Giants and Nisei Trading. “The Geisha Boy,” in Technicolor and VistaVision, stars Jerry as a bungling U.S.O. magician in the Orient, and co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa. Still No. 10326-10 Mat 2A JERRY LEWIS IN JAPAN as a zany USO entertainer is funnier than ever in his latest laugh riot, “The Geisha Boy,” Paramount’s VistaVision and Technicolor comedy due ........ ABTEME so. 86s she Theatre. With him are lovely Nobu Atsumi McCarthy, Robert Hirano and Harry Hare. 2 LATEST JERRY LEWIS FUN FILM, ‘THE GEISHA BOY’ CO-STARS MARIE McDONALD AND SESSUE HAYAKAWA (First Story) Jerry Lewis dons a Japanese kimono and opens a bag of hilarious new tricks in his upcoming Paramount picture, “The Geisha Boy” which co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa and arTIVES! 304s. « at ‘the?.isss. Theatre. Filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, “The Geisha Boy” stars Jerry in the role of an unemployed magician who joins a U.S.O. unit in Japan and Korea. It tells the story of his adventures there, and since they are Jerry Lewis’s adventures it follows as the night the day that they are bound to be the zaniest and most uproarious that ever befell man—or magician. Contributing to the proceedings are a number of new personalities including pretty Suzanne Pleshette from the Broadway stage, luscious Japanese beauty Nobu Atsumi McCarthy, cute little Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano, the famous Japanese wrestler Ryuzo Demura. A most amazing little white rabbit, Harry Hare, is among those present—and, of all things, the Los Angeles Dodgers! But then, anything can be expected in a Jerry Lewis picture, most of all laughs, so be sure to get your share from “The Geisha Boy.” Still No. 10326-23 Mat 1B MARIE (THE BODY) McDONALD decorates Jerry Lewis’s new laugh hit, ‘““The Geisha Boy,” due ...... ate thes... Theatre. Also starred with Jerry in Paramount’s Technicolor-VistaVision comedy are Sessue Hayakawa and Japanese beauty, Nobu Atsumi McCarthy. Just Wants to Be Funny Jerry Lewis is one comedian who doesn’t want to play Hamlet—or Pagliacci, either. He just wants to be funny, that’s all, and never has he more richly fulfilled his ambition than in his newest Paramount picture, “The Geisha Boy,” which COMES seni tothe: ee, Theatre. The Technicolor and VistaVision comedy co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa and features new personalities Suzanne Pleshette, Nobu Atsumi McCarthy, Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano and Ryuzo Demura, the latter a famous Japanese wrestler. In “The Geisha Boy” Jerry plays an inept magician on a U.S.O. tour in the Orient where he encounters the kind of zany adventures that could only happen to him, including involvement with a Japanese orphan boy who decides that Jerry is his new father. Still No. 10326-1 Mat 2B JERRY LEWIS AND FRIENDS Nobu Atsumi McCarthy and Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano share some hilarious experiences in Jerry’s newest laugh hit, “The Geisha Boy.” The Technicolor-VistaVision Paramount comedy arrives usteluswers at the ........ Theatre with co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa. JERRY LEWIS AT HIS HILARIOUS BEST IN COMEDY HIT, (Review) When funnier pictures than “The Geisha Boy” are made, I guess it will have to be Jerry Lewis who makes them, for each of his new comedies seems more uproarious than his preceding one, and this latest Paramount hilarity is no exception: It arrived atthe 2.1... Theatre yesterday and a lot of the dialogue was lost in the almost continuous laughter that Jerry’s nonsense evoked from the audience. Filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, “The Geisha Boy” sparkles with novelty and fresh expressions of Jerry’s particular brand of buffoonery. It sets the nation’s number one funny man down in the Orient as a bungling U.S.O. entertainer, a magician desperately dependent on his partner, Harry Hare (an amazingly clever white rabbit), for the successful accomplishment of his tricks. It involves Jerry with a beautiful Japanese girl (Nobu Atsumi McCarthy) and her young nephew (Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano), an appealing little boy who insists on adopting Jerry as his father. It also involves him with luscious Marie (‘‘The Body’’) McDonald, who portrays a glamorous star in the same U.S.O. troupe as Jerry, and with Sessue Hayakawa in the role of Nobu’s stern father. The story of “The Geisha Boy” is a good one, providing Jerry with a marvelous framework for his many-faceted talents. Never has he been in rarer, more riotous form. Sessue Hayakawa Switches to Comedy Sessue Hayakawa, who won an Academy Award nomination for his role of the sadistic Japanese prison camp commandant in “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” does a complete about-face in the new Jerry Lewis comedy for Paramount, “‘The Geisha Boy,” which aLrives: 2... ab the... slheatre. In this Technicolor and VistaVision riot which stars Jerry as a bungling U.S.O. magician on tour in the Orient, Hayakawa, who has a straight character role in the comedy, figures in an uproarious spoof of “River Kwai,’ one of the many funny highlights of the picture. “The Geisha Boy” also co-stars the curvaceous Marie McDonald. ‘THE GEISHA BOY’ Still No. 10326-8 Mat 1C “THE GEISHA BOY” (JERRY LEWIS) and his buddy, cute little Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano, have some hilarious adventures in the Paramount comedy, in Technicolor and VistaVision due ....... at the ab aeegesteerens Theatre. Teamed with Jerry Lewis It took Jerry Lewis three months to find Robert Kazuyoshi Hirano, the six-year-old Japanese boy who is teamed with the comedian in Paramount’s Technicolor and VistaVision production, “The Geisha Boy. <duey were oa abethe: ses. sioner: Theatre. During that period, Lewis looked at more than 250 boys in person and at least that many more photographs, some of which came from as far away as Hawaii. “The Geisha Boy” tells the hilarious story of a U.S.O. magician’s adventure in Japan, and Robert, who has had no previous acting experience, plays an orphan who becomes attached to Jerry and stows away in his plane. The film co-stars Marie McDonald and Sessue Hayakawa and features Nobu Atsumi McCarthy.