{"id":27948,"date":"2016-01-07T07:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=27948"},"modified":"2016-01-07T07:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:26:22","slug":"bbc-releases-documentary-on-jerry-lewis-secret-holocaust-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/bbc-releases-documentary-on-jerry-lewis-secret-holocaust-film\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC releases documentary on Jerry Lewis&#8217; secret Holocaust film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 The BBC has released a short documentary about an unreleased Holocaust film by Jewish comedian Jerry Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis wrote and directed \u201cThe Day the Clown Cried\u201d at the height of his Hollywood career in 1971. The BBC documentary released Tuesday includes behind-the-scenes footage of production, stills from the film and narration by David Schneider, also a Jewish comedian.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly a drama with comedic elements, the film centers on a fictional clown named Helmut Doork who is imprisoned by the Nazis and forced to lead children into the gas chambers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very interesting film because very few people have seen anything from it,&#8221; Swedish film critic Jan Lumholdt told the BBC. \u201cHe&#8217;s a comedian and this is his most serious film ever. This gives it a very interesting energy and dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis reportedly was passionate about the project at first but has hidden all of its footage, saying recently that he is too embarrassed to show it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all bad, and it was bad because I lost the magic,\u201d Lewis told Reuters in 2013. \u201cYou will never see it. No one will ever see it because I am embarrassed at the poor work.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"BBC%20releases%20documentary%20on%20Jerry%20Lewis%27%20secret%20Holocaust%20film\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[440,7562,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27949,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions\/27949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}