Joe e lewis comedian biography
Joe e lewis comedian biography
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Joe E. Lewis
American singer (1902–1971)
Not to be confused with Joe Louis.
Joe E. Lewis (born Joseph Klewan; January 12, 1902 – June 4, 1971) was an American comedian, actor, and singer.[1]
Early life
Lewis was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents on January 12, 1902 in New York City, New York.[2][3] He added the E.
to distinguish himself from the boxer.[4]
Dropping out of De Witt Clinton High School after two years, the 15‐year‐old Lewis enlisted in the Marine Corps, but was found out and released. He got into third‐rate burlesque and vaudeville in 1923.[5]
He made his breakthrough as a nightclub star in Chicago in the days of what he liked to call “the Great Drought,” Prohibition.[6] As portrayed in his 1957 biographic film, The Joker Is Wild, Lewis started out as a popular crooner in a gang-owned speakeasy during the prohibition years of the 1920s.[7]
Biography
In Chicago in 1927