Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well received by critics in the United States ( in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.

* Lewis Carroll featured a surrealistic version of the game in the popular children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; a hedgehog was used as the ball, a flamingo the mallet, and playing cards as the hoops.

Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

A harbinger of the cookie-cutter " cineplex " type movie theaters that would become popular in the 1970s, a Jerry Lewis Cinema was billed in franchising ads as a " mini-theatre " with a seating capacity of between 200 and 350.

Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

In the 2000s the bicentennial of the expedition further elevated popular interest in Lewis and Clark.

Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.

Allen supported " popular sovereignty " and the presidential candidacy of Lewis Cass, identifying himself as a " Peace Democrat " and opposing the U. S. Civil War.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

As a character and literary allusion he has appeared in, or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture, particularly in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass ( 1872 ).

Lewis Cass ( Democrat ) in December 1847, in his famous letter to A. O. P. Nicholson in Tennessee, further defined the concept of popular sovereignty which would soon evolve as the mainstream Democratic alternative to the Wilmot Proviso:

Typical of the genre were such popular artists as Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Harry Reser, Leo Reisman, Abe Lyman, Nat Shilkret, George Olsen, Ben Bernie, Bob Haring, Ben Selvin, Earl Burnett, Gus Arnheim, Henry Halstead, Rudy Vallee, Jean Goldkette, Glen Gray, Isham Jones, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Sam Lanin, James Last, Vincent Lopez, Ben Pollack, Shep Fields and Fred Waring.

Before the playoffs, Torrey made the difficult decision to trade longtime and popular veterans Billy Harris and defenseman Dave Lewis to the Los Angeles Kings for second line center Butch Goring.

Two former members of the Appalachian Green Parks Project, Jim McGaw and Charlie Lewis began performing with Jimmy Prouty and went on to form the New Vinton County Frogwhompers Marching, Singing, Strumming and Plucking Society in 1976, which was to become one of the most popular groups to come out of the region in the 1970s.

The most popular choice was " Pioneers ," but that name was excluded from consideration as it was already used by sports teams at Portland's Lewis and Clark College.

By studying several different tribes of the Western Pacific ( employing the method of comparison, popular in ethnography ), Malinowski gave confirmations of Lewis Morgan's idea that matriarchy ( gyneocracy ) was a common feature of primitive societies at early stages, and that female rule needed matrilineality for its existence.

According to Huey Lewis and the News, this was especially damaging to them since " Ghostbusters " was so popular, rising to number one on the charts for three weeks.

While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, " St. Clair's Defeat ," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.

In addition Lewis argues that the Quran lacks popular western traditions of ' guilt and betrayal '.

The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark ; at least one popular musical act — over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC — would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles.

Lewis Cass, the Democratic Party's 1848 presidential nominee, supported popular sovereignty for determining the status of slavery in the U. S. territories.

Shari Lewis ( January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998 ) was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

Lewis later revealed that Paramount was not happy financing a ' silent movie ' and withdrew backing.

Lewis was portrayed by Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes ( Will and Grace ) in the 2002 made for television movie Martin and Lewis.

From 1969 to 1980, the National Cinema Corp. franchised " Jerry Lewis Cinemas " as a business opportunity for those interested in theatrical movie exhibition.

Lennon promoted the album with music videos for the two hits made by movie director Sam Peckinpah and producer Martin Lewis.

Lewis Collins is set to portray him in upcoming movie 1066 ( 2011 ).

In tribute to the influence of the song and the movie that launched its popularity, the March 29, 2005 50th anniversary of the opening of Blackboard Jungle was marked by several large celebrations in the United States organized by promoter Martin Lewis under the blanket title " Rock Is Fifty ".

20th Century Fox, Walden, and the C. S. Lewis Estate finally decided that The Magician's Nephew would be the basis for the next movie following the release of the 2010 film The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Born David Selznick to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J. Selznick and Florence A.

Basie made a few more movie appearances, such as the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella ( 1960 ) and the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), playing his arrangement of " April in Paris ".

* Jerry Lewis used " Blues in Hoss ' Flat " from Basie's Chairman of the Board album, as the basis for his own " Chairman of the Board " routine in the movie The Errand Boy.

The movie was directed by George Stevens and written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Garson Kanin ( uncredited ), Frank Ross ( Jean Arthur's husband at the time ), and Robert Russell.

Huey Lewis has stated that his experiences with the producers of Ghostbusters may have been indirectly responsible for getting his band involved with the movie Back to the Future.

Expectations were high for the Lewis program, but it was Kovacs ' special that received the most attention ; Kovacs received his first movie offer, had a cover story in Life, and received the Sylvania Award that year.

" Lewis French, who had worked in his father's ice plant growing up and was trained as a bookkeeper at Clarks Commercial College in Jackson, had no experience in running a movie theatre.

Sean Cullen played a small role as Gleason in the 2002 made-for-TV movie Martin and Lewis.

Lewis and his band appeared in a few early-talkie movie musicals in 1929, notably the Warner Brothers revue The Show of Shows.

A radio series commenced in 1949, the same year Martin and Lewis were signed by Paramount producer Hal B. Wallis as comedy relief for the movie My Friend Irma.

By the mid ' 60s, Martin was a top movie, recording, television, and nightclub star, while Lewis ' film career declined.