columbo’s wife

An advertisement for Dean and Jerry's second to last film, Pardners.

Motion Picture Exhibitor - March 11, 1959

"Dean Martin - Vagabond Singer, Jerry Lewis - Sentimental Clown" by Maxine Arnold - Radio-TV Mirror, June 1952

"Two Wives - Two Lives" by Kirtley Baskette - Modern Screen, October 1952

(sourced from the Herald Examiner Collection, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library)

Publicity photos of Jerry in character

"Time to Part?" by George Armstrong - Photoplay, May 1953

Dean and Jerry promote the Muscular Dystrophy Association

"Why Martin and Lewis are rifting" by Mark Newton - Screenland Plus TV-Land, November 1955

"Are Martin and Lewis Breaking Up?" by Maxine Arnold - Photoplay, July 1954

Advertisements for The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry's first film post-Martin & Lewis split. Some of my brief thoughts on the film can be found here.

"Mayhem, Unlimited" by Corinne Bailey - Photoplay, October 1953

Jerry with Jack Entratter, who was also known as “Mr. Show Business”

As a side note, this is perhaps my absolute favorite photo of Jerry and I'll never get tired of seeing it, so handsome <3

"Has Jerry Fooled the Critics?" by Bob Thomas - Photoplay, September 1957

More lovely publicity shots of Jerry, alongside an onstage photo with a guitar <3 (or, a peek into an alternate reality where Jerry was a rock n roll singer)