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Dean Stockwell Added To ‘Max Rose’ With Jerry Lewis

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 1:55pm PSTTags: Jerry Lewis, Max Rose

Dean Stockwell will be joining Jerry Lewis in Max Rose. The Blue Velvet actor will play Ben Tracy in the comic’s return to the big screen. The character is an old friend of Lewis’ title character. Oscar nominee Stockwell was seen recently in the coming of ager C.O.G., which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20. Helmed by first time director Daniel Noah, Max Rose marks Lewis’ first movie role since 1995’s Funny Bones. Shooting in LA, Max Rose is produced by Mosaic Media Group’s Lawrence Inglee and Lightstream Pictures’ Garrett Kelleher. Dean Stockwell is repped by Open Entertainment.

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Jerry Lewis Back Onscreen in ‘Max Rose’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 4:13pm PSTTags: Daniel Noah, Jerry Lewis, Max Rose
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BREAKING: In his first film starring role since 1995′s Funny Bones, Jerry Lewis starts work tomorrow in the starring role of the indie feature Max Rose. Directed by Daniel Noah from his script, the film is a drama about a jazz pianist who has recently lost his wife of over five decades. A discovery made days before her death causes Max to believe his marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era. Noah is making his directing debut.

While he has done stage work, the 86-year-old Lewis hasn’t done much in the way of films in a long time. Before Funny Bones his last big starring role came in 1983′s Martin Scorsese-directed The King Of Comedy, opposite Robert De Niro.

Lewis stars with Claire Bloom, Kevin Pollak, Argo‘s Kerry Bishe and Mort Sahl. It’s a reunion for Sahl and Lewis, as Sahl appeared on Lewis’ 1963 comedy variety series. The project was trotted out several Cannes Film Festivals ago, but then languished. Read More »

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