The Disorderly Orderly (1964) is a Paramount Pictures feature film starring Jerry Lewis in a story about a clumsy hospital orderly with a psychosomatic problem. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by the film's director Frank Tashlin based upon a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas. The Disorderly Orderly was filmed at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills, California with costumes designed by Edith Head and its title...
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The Disorderly Orderly (1964) is a Paramount Pictures feature film starring Jerry Lewis in a story about a clumsy hospital orderly with a psychosomatic problem. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by the film's director Frank Tashlin based upon a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas. The Disorderly Orderly was filmed at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills, California with costumes designed by Edith Head and its title song rendered by Sammy Davis, Jr.. The film was released to DVD October 2004.
Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis) is an orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium and Hospital who suffers from "neurotic identification empathy" - a psychosomatic problem that causes him to suffer the symptoms of others and interferes with his ability to function effectively on the job. His unwitting propensity for slapstick-style mayhem sorely tries the patience of Dr. Howard (Glenda Farrell) and Nurse Higgins (Kathleen Freeman). When his high school crush Susan Andrews...
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