For 10 wonderful years our Dino and the kid took the entertainment world by storm...and likes as we have often said, the best thin' that ever happened to our Dino was teamin' with the jer, and then the best thin' that would ever happen was our Dino breakin' up his ties with the kid ten years later. Dino-only, DMP
Saturday, July 25, 2009
MARTIN & LEWIS DAY
Crooner Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team this day in 1946 at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ. Actually, the two had met while performing -- separately -- at the Glass Hat in New York City and decided to try an ad-lib act together. The rest is entertainment history.
The duo went from earning $350 a week to $5,000 a week in under eight months, with Martin playing the romantic straight man opposite Lewis as his goofy, unpredictable partner. Ten years later, the curtain came down on their final team performance at the Copacabana in New York. Over that decade, the zany two made seventeen movies including My Friend Irma, That’s My Boy, The Caddy, Pardners, Jumping Jacks and The Stooge.
Dean Martin went on to become a recording star (Memories are Made of This, Return to Me, Everybody Loves Somebody), movie star (The Young Lions, Rio Bravo, Sons of Katie Elder, the Matt Helm series) and host of his own TV variety show, The Dean Martin Show. Lewis pursued a solo career in Hollywood as comic lead (The Sad Sack, Cinderfella, The Nutty Professor); director (The Bellboy, The Errand Boy, The Patsy, Family Jewels, Which Way to the Front); producer; teacher (USC); and consummate entertainer. It would take 20 years for the two to speak publicly with each other again.
Martin died December 25, 1995. Lewis continues to set records in fund-raising during his annual Stars Across America! Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (he has been chairman of the MDA since 1950). The Las Vegas resident continues to make nightclub appearances and returned to the stage in the Broadway revival production of **** Yankees in 1996. Critics called his performance as the Devil, a rip-roaring success.
I saw a little bit of D*** Yankees.. Jerry was great in that ^^
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, gotta 'fess up that I never was a fan of the jer 'til I was able to purchase the Dino and the kid sets of flicks and saw the chemistry that our Dino and the jer had.....and then likes I read the jer's Dinobio which shows how much the kid really loves our great man...still just a fan of his work with our Dino....so got me wonderin' how did you see part of "Damn Yankees"?
ReplyDeleteI saw that on tv... It was about Jerry and they talked about his movies, and then they showed like 30 min from that play : )
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, I see, so do you likes see much of our Dino on the TV in your country?
ReplyDeleteWell yeah, we have like 2 or 3 films with Dean it them every week : )
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, like WOW....never woulda thought that in Norway you woulda see so much of our Dino on the tube.....so is there a great variety of our great man's flicks shown, or just a few over and over....and are they with subtitles or dubbed into your mother tongue?
ReplyDeleteWell they show like 13 different a year.. With original voices and subtitles can be turned on..
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, likes real cool...so just gotta ask, have your seen the Matt Helm flicks on your television....and likes have they shown the Dino and the jer flicks much?
ReplyDeleteNo, not Matt Helm.. But a lot of Martin and Lewis films
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, so our Dino's spy capers have never made it to your TV set....so, have likes never asked before....d'ya have the stellar Dino Spy flicks among your Dinotreasure?
ReplyDeleteYes i have all of them : )
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, wonderin' if they were hard to locate...and likes do you have a fav of 'em?
ReplyDeleteWell actually no.. I love all of them : )
ReplyDeleteWell i bought them on internet. Took me sometime, but it was more than worth it ^^
Hey pallie Maria, now that's the pure and clean Dinotruth....everythin' Dino is so so worth it....but 'specially the Matt Helm flicks....my personal fav is "Murders Row"....for likes many Dinoreasons....well am gonna have to get off for now...safe travels and hopes we can keep in touch while you makes your travels...btw thought it woulda be really cool if you could makes some reports back to ilovedinomartin 'bout your stops in America and any Dinopilgrimages that you are able to take...what d'ya think 'bout that pallie?
ReplyDeleteYeah, i can post that on my site and u are more then welcome to wright about it on ilovedinomartin ^^
ReplyDeleteHey pallie, sounds like a plann...that is if you are willin' to write it in Englango...
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