Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for The Bellboy
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1960 · FILM

The Bellboy

“It's a Series of Silly Sequences and One of Jerry's All-Time Great Comedy Performances!”

Directed by
Jerry Lewis
Written by
Jerry Lewis
Runtime
72 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Stanley works as a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, carrying out his responsibilities in complete silence, communicating only through expressive facial gestures and physical comedy. His presence often leads to a cascade of mishaps, as any situation involving him tends to spiral into chaos. When Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel, certain staff members are struck by how closely Stanley resembles him.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stanley E JohnsonShot by Haskell B BoggsScored by Walter Scharf

Box Office

1960 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$900K
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Hallo, Page!de
  • Le Dingue du Palacefr
  • Ragazzo tuttofareit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.