{"id":18523,"date":"2026-04-19T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18523"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:21:02","slug":"the-ladies-man-1961-jerry-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18523","title":{"rendered":"The Ladies Man (1961, Jerry Lewis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry gets a live-in job at a womens boarding house.  It&#8217;s overwhelming but whenever he tries to sneak out, they tell him he&#8217;s important to them, so he stays.  Movie has very little story, very few good jokes, but some of the best-ever set design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/ladies2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The girls include Gloria Jean, two decades after hurting WC&#8217;s ears in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13769\">Never Give a Sucker<\/a><\/em>, Billy Wilder regular Hope Holiday, and Kathleen Freeman, the only actor in Fritz Lang&#8217;s <em>House by the River<\/em> to also appear in <em>Shrek<\/em>.  Buddy Lester is quite good as a scarfaced antagonist, George Raft significantly less good as himself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/ladies1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry gets a live-in job at a womens boarding house. It&#8217;s overwhelming but whenever he tries to sneak out, they tell him he&#8217;s important to them, so he stays. Movie has very little story, very few good jokes, but some of the best-ever set design. The girls include Gloria Jean, two decades after hurting WC&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,196],"class_list":["post-18523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-jerry-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}