| The Geisha Boy | |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Written by | Frank Tashlin Rudy Makoul |
| Produced by | Jerry Lewis |
| Starring | Jerry Lewis Marie McDonald Suzanne Pleshette |
| Cinematography | Haskell Boggs |
| Edited by | Alma Macrorie |
| Music by | Walter Scharf |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.2 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2] 1,329,398 admissions (France)[3] |
The Geisha Boy is a 1958 American comedy film starring Jerry Lewis, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Filmed from June 16 to August 7, 1958, it had its first screening in New York City on December 19, 1958.[4][5] This motion picture featured the film debut of Suzanne Pleshette.
- ^ Paramount Pictures helped sponsor a 13 December 1958 showing for several hundred New York City children in cooperation with the New York Herald-Tribune’s Fresh Air Fund. See ”Pleshette to Give Yule Party for 1,000 Children Tuesday.” New York Post, 7 December 1958, 16.
- ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take," Variety, 6 January 1960, p. 34.
- ^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
- ^ http://ia600305.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/17/items/motionpicturedai84unse_0/motionpicturedai84unse_0_jp2.zip&file=motionpicturedai84unse_0_jp2/motionpicturedai84unse_0_0392.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0 [dead link]
- ^ Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1958