To celebrate Keenan Wynn’s birthday I watched The Patsy. Keenan, Peter Lorre, Everett Sloan, Ina Balen and John Carradine play the entourage to a star who dies and decide to create a new star based on what they learned. Jerry Lewis is that man, The Patsy. This is probably my second favorite Jerry Lewis film with the second best entrance.
This film like most of Keenan’s film he plays a supporting character. There are a lot of back of the head shots of him and the others as the center of attention is Lewis. Keenan is the public relations agent who wears the same grey plaid suit throughout the film. When Lewis laughs at Hedda Hopper’s umbrella stand hat Keenan goes up to her to “clean up”. When Hedda says he is a natural talent, Keenan takes the credit and boasts success.
At the end when Lewis is a smashing success in an unbelievable Ed Sullivan skit, when Lewis states that he will need a new secretary, Keenan is the first to stand up and defend her. When Lewis states he wants a wife that states he wants his wife to stay home and take care of the children the men scatter like leaves in the wind.
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