On Sun, 27 Feb 1994, Margaret Ervin wrote: > Also I have heard vicious and interesting rumors about a Jerry Lewis film > in which he plays a clown in a concentration camp. Is this just someone > making things up, or could this possibly be real? I'd love to know. I'm currently halfway through writing a bio of Lewis for St. Martin's Press, and howsoever vicious and interesting it may be, it's TRUE. In 1973, Lewis shot and starred in "The Day the Clown Cried," a thinly-based-on-truth drama about Helmut Doork, a Jewish clown interned by the Nazis at Auschwitz and forced by them to lead children into the gas chambers. The film was an international coproduction, and money dried up very quickly into the actual filming. Lewis put up money of his own, the original producer died, and the film has never been completed. Very few people have even seen Lewis' rough cut. A "Spy" magazine article in May, 1992, contains the full story. Lewis still fumes whenever he's asked about the subject. Shawn Levy | "I used to have such sweet, sweet dreams, [log in to unmask] | But now it's more like an air raid."