September 6, 2007
Comedian Voted Most Effective Charity Star
Americans find the actor Jerry Lewis to be the most effective celebrity spokesman for charity causes, according to a survey by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.
Though older Americans came to know Jerry Lewis first as the star of The Disorderly Orderly and the slapstick comic to Dean Martin's straight man, younger generations have been introduced to him through the annual telethons he plays host to for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The telethons raise tens of millions
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