Legendary youngsters’s entertainer Shari Lewis is about to obtain the documentary therapy in Shari & Lamb Chop, a brand new movie from director Lisa D’Apolito (Love, Gilda). Watch the trailer under.
Made with the complete cooperation of the Shari Lewis property by means of her daughter, Mallory, the documentary chronicles Lewis’ exceptional profession. It follows her journey from the Nineteen Fifties CBS TV present Arthur Godfrey’s Expertise Scouts to The Shari Lewis Present within the early Sixties, and during her comeback on The Charlie Horse Music Pizza within the late Nineties.
The trailer portrays Lewis as a pioneer within the early days of youngsters’s tv and particulars how her beloved puppet, Lamb Chop, got here to outline her multi-faceted profession. The documentary will function interviews with ventriloquists whom Lewis impressed, in addition to archival house motion pictures.
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“Earlier than Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, there was Shari Lewis, a youngsters’s tv pioneer whose whimsical characters and ebullient spirit have guided generations of youngsters as they got here of age,” reads the official synopsis. “However when an damage sidelined her dance aspirations, she channeled her creativity right into a ardour for ventriloquism, creating the now beloved sock puppet characters Charlie Horse, Hush Pet, and, in fact, Lamb Chop.”
“Shari Lewis’ life is the final word comeback story,” director D’Apolito mentioned in a press assertion. “Shari mesmerized and empowered generations of youngsters and their household in believing in themselves and having enjoyable doing it… I hope it’s a movie which you can go together with your grandparent, dad and mom and your youngsters and whether or not you watched Shari on TV or not, it brings the magic of childhood.”
Shari & Lamb Chop will open in theaters on July 18th.
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