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The Ladies Man is a comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
. It was released on June 28, 1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
 by Paramount
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
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The Ladies Man is a comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
. It was released on June 28, 1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
 by Paramount
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
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Herbert H. Heebert (Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
) is a young man who loses his girlfriend, swears off romance, and then takes a job at a genteel, women-only boarding house, run by Helen Wellenmellen (Helen Traubel
Helen Traubel

Helen Traubel was an American operatic dramatic soprano, best known for her Richard Wagner roles, especially those of Die Walk?re and Tristan und Isolde....
). Although most of the women treat him like a servant, Fay (Pat Stanley
Pat Stanley

Pat Stanley is a Tony award actress.Stanley won her Tony award in the category of Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in the 1958-1959 season, for her performances as "Lois Lee" in the musical Goldilocks ....
) helps him with his fear of women.

Trivia

  • It features the largest indoor set ever built at Paramount. The "house" contained sixty rooms.
  • It later inspired the set design of Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
    's Tout va bien
    Tout va bien

    Tout va bien is a 1972 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a film director....
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