Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there on location in Malta were a lot of people the new starlet probably hadn't met before. For instance, George Jessel played The Presence, who follows Hieronymous, wears ivory suits with ivory lace shirts and ivory ties, carries an ivory parasol, and goes through Borscht Belt jokes (very well, if you like them) at several crucial points. Milton Berle was the devil, Mr. Goodtime Eddie Filth, who honest-to-God baked big-breasted sex in a private oven and also hand cranked the shaft that turned Mercy's Merry-go Round...
...youth, Merkin is tempted by the Devil (Milton Berle). From then on, girls fall in line beside his bed. From time to time Merkin is visited by Death (George Jessel) who gazes at Merkin with basilisk eyes and bleats standup jokes that are as dead as vaudeville. Eventually, even he sighs, "I think I should warn you I'm getting new material...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...DEAN MARTIN SUMMER SHOW WITH YOUR HOST VIC DAMONE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Vic Damone and Carol Lawrence substitute for Dean Martin, welcoming George Jessel and Don Cherry as the first of the summer variety-show guests...
Surrounding Caesar in this tasteless Runyonesque rehash are such holders of the borscht belt as Jan Murray, Ben Blue, Bill Dana, George Jessel and Mickey Deems. Of them all, Jessel is the only one comic enough to deserve the name-and that only by parodying his own nasal eulogizing at the services of a policeman who was trampled to death during a movie premiere...