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The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.
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.
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Nov 22, 2017 · Director: Frank Tashlin. Producer: Paul Jones. Writers: Frank Tashlin; story by Norm Liebmann and Ed Haas. Cinematography: W. Wallace Kenney. Editing: John Woodcock. Cast: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Karen Sharpe, Susan Oliver, Kathleen Freeman, Everett Sloane, Del Moore. Share this: Twitter. Facebook. Loading...
Synopsis. When he flunks out of med school, Jerome Littlefield goes to work as an orderly in a private rest home where he wreaks havoc for everyone concerned. Dr. Jean Howard is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a patient after the antics of the frantic employee.
Jun 7, 2012 · As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is a flustered klutz and a meek, painfully sincere...
