From an article on Sammy Davis Jr. in the November 1958 issue of Modern Screen Magazine:
While performing after his release from the hospital when he lost his eye, Sammy realized he still wasn't at his best on stage. So did someone else:
"When he began to tire toward the end because of the excitement and the singing and the weakness he still had from the long weeks in the hospital, when his breath began to run out--Jerry Lewis had come climbing up over chairs and feet to join him on stage, to clown like nobody else in the world could do, to kibitz around to the delight of the audience till Sammy could get his wind again. The next day Jerry was fined $500 for it by the entertainers' union, AGVA--it was against regulations for an artist to appear unpaid, like that. So what happened? The night after, he came back again and did it all over. It cost him a thousand dollars to do a favor for a friend--and he did it with an open, loving heart."