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The Disorderly Orderly

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The Disorderly Orderly
Theatrical lobby card
Directed by	Frank Tashlin
Produced by	Paul Jones
Written by	Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas (Story) Frank Tashlin(Screenplay)
Starring	Jerry Lewis Susan Oliver Glenda Farrell Kathleen Freeman
Music by	Joseph J. Lilley
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 16, 1964
Running time	89 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Box office	$2,700,000 (US/ Canada rentals)^[1]

The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.

When his high school crush Susan Andrews (Susan Oliver) is admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt, Jerome gradually comes to the realization that his problem is a result of his years-long obsession with her. While he fails to establish a romantic relationship with Susan, he does lift her spirits, thus banishing any thought of suicide and giving her the will to live.Jerome Littlefield (Lewis) is an orderly at the Whitestone Sanatorium and Hospital who suffers from "neurotic identification empathy" -- a psychosomatic problem that causes him to suffer the symptoms of others and interferes with his ability to function effectively on the job. His unwitting propensity for slapstick-style mayhem sorely tries the patience of Dr. Howard (Glenda Farrell) and Nurse Higgins (Kathleen Freeman).

A runaway gurney is chased by several ambulances and causes the destruction of ceiling-high canned goods displays in a grocery store. Littlefield is cured of his problem, reunited with his girlfriend Julie (Karen Sharpe), and looking forward to resuming his interrupted medical school career.

Jerry Lewis as Jerome Littlefield
Susan Oliver as Susan
Kathleen Freeman as Nurse Higgins
Glenda Farrell as Dr. Howard
Karen Sharpe as Julie
Alice Pearce as Patient
Barbara Nichols as Patient
Jack E. Leonard as Patient
Everett Sloane as the Psychiatrist.

[edit]Production notes

The Disorderly Orderly was filmed at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills, California with costumes designed by Edith Headand its title song rendered by Sammy Davis, Jr.

The title song, sung over the opening credits, is performed by Sammy Davis, Jr.:

Our pills he’ll spill
Your tray he’ll drop
When he picks up your stretcher,
it’s 2-to-1 you’ll flop
You’re sick
But quick, get out of sight
The disorderly orderly’s
on duty tonight
He’ll bounce your bed
And split your splint
And though he’s got you screaming,
he never gets the hint
You might as well give up the fight
The disorderly orderly’s
on duty tonight
He’ll try so hard to please you
But if you need an ice pack,
Watch out, he’ll freeze you
A lovely nurse comes to the door
Our hero says, ”Excuse me”
And crashes through the floor
You must admit that he’s polite
The disorderly orderly’s on duty
Tonight ♪♫

While Howard Thompson of the New York Times (December 24, 1964) liked a few comedic bits and praised some secondary performers, he generally panned The Disorderly Orderly writing, "[The film] runs dry at the end of the first third — like a juiceless watermelon — and splits open, with about the same results."^[2]

Trivia:

When Jerome is chasing the patient with the full-body cast, you can see the string attached to the cast that is pulling it down the hill.

When Jerome is loading the laundry onto the cart, he throws a bag and it goes over the cart and hits the wall on the other side. When the laundry hits the wall and door, the door and the entire wall shake revealing that it is obviously fake.

When Jerome and Julie go out to dinner for spaghetti, he has a plate and she does not. When he finishes twirling the spaghetti into a big pile, her plate "magically" appears.