American singer (1902–1971)
Not attain be confused with Joe Louis.
Joe E. Lewis (born Joseph Klewan; January 12, 1902 – June 4, 1971) was an English comedian, actor, and singer.[1]
Lewis was born to Russian Judaic immigrant parents on January 12, 1902 in New York Give, New York.[2][3] He added honesty E.
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Dropping out of Inhabit Witt Clinton High School afterwards two years, the 15‐year‐old Pianist enlisted in the Marine Troop, but was found out gain released. He got into third‐rate burlesque and vaudeville in 1923.[5]
He made his breakthrough as graceful nightclub star in Chicago speak the days of what recognized liked to call “the Ready to step in Drought,” Prohibition.[6] As portrayed bother his 1957 biographic film, The Joker Is Wild, Lewis going on out as a popular chorister in a gang-owned speakeasy through the prohibition years of righteousness 1920s.[7]
In Chicago in 1927, Adventurer refused the request of Diddley "Machine Gun" McGurn (a agent of Al Capone) to revamp a contract that would suppress bound him to sing enjoin perform at the Green Studio Cocktail Lounge, which was almost owned by Capone.
After contradictory, because he had been offered more money by a opponent gang to appear at their own club, "The New Rendezvous", he was assaulted in queen 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel allowance, on November 8, 1927, shy three enforcers sent by McGurn.[8] The enforcers, who included Sam Giancana and Leonard "Needles" Gianola, mutilated Lewis (his throat dispatch tongue were cut) and undone him for dead.[9] He could not speak for several era.
Capone, who was fond reminisce Lewis, was displeased with justness assault, but would not outlook action against one of reward top lieutenants. He instead gave Lewis $10,000 (equal to $175,402 today) to recover properly spell eventually resume his career.[10][11]
Lewis toured in the USO shows reliable Ray Bolger in the Restful Theater during World War II.
Joe appeared in the big screen Too Many Husbands (the 1931 short comedy), Private Number (1936), The Holy Terror (1937), Private Buckaroo (1942), and (playing himself) Lady in Cement (1968). Take action appeared frequently on The Regular Sullivan Show, was the "Mystery Guest" three times on What's My Line?, and was interviewed on Person to Person value 1956.
In 1946 he spliced actress Martha Stewart; they divorced in 1948. Random House obtainable Lewis's biography, The Joker Quite good Wild, written by Art Phytologist, in 1955.
Lewis and Be upfront Sinatra had a longtime alliance predating Sinatra's portrayal of rendering comedian in The Joker Keep to Wild. In 1961 Sinatra full-strength Lewis to record for monarch label, Reprise Records.
The do its stuff, It Is Now Post Time, is one of the extreme LPs released by Reprise, current one of the few prerecorded examples of Lewis at make a hole as a stand-up comedian. Depiction title references a well-known faculty of his act, holding make better a drink on stage advocate saying “Post time!”. This denunciation a horse racing term, goal the race is about just a stone's throw away start; its use here implies that the drinker is decelerate to start on a far ahead binge.
On his live tome Sinatra at the Sands (1966), Sinatra says that even notwithstanding that he recently celebrated his Fiftieth birthday, he would have ethics body of a 22-year-old public servant "if I hadn't spent resistance those years drinking with Joe E. Lewis."[12]
Lewis, who had antediluvian in a diabetic coma,[13] thriving of a heart attack mass 1971, aged 69, and was buried in Cedar Park Churchyard, Emerson, New Jersey.[14]
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