Walking onto the set for the first day of filming 1956’s “Hollywood or Bust”—his final film with estranged partner Dean Martin—Jerry Lewis turned to a technician and said, “This is nothing about you or against you, but I intend to make the filming of this movie as difficult as possible.”
And he did—in spades.
Jerry Lewis was once such a pain in the ass on a studio set that director Frank Tashlin actually kicked Lewis off the set of a movie he was starring in. And Tashlin was accustomed to working with such temperamental actors as Daffy Duck, Tweetie-Bird, and Wile E. Coyote.
Jerry had to apologize to everybody on the set of his own movie before Tashlin would allow him come back to work.