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Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer.
One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed the “King of Cool” for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assuredness. He and Jerry Lewis were partners in the immensely popular comedy team “Martin and Lewis”. He was a member of the “Rat Pack” and a star in concert stage/nightclubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television. He was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show (1965–1974) and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (1974–1985).
Dean Martin’s relaxed, warbling crooning voice earned him dozens of hit singles including his signature songs “Memories Are Made of This”, “That’s Amore”, “Everybody Loves Somebody”, “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You”, “Sway”, “Volare”, and “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?”.
Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894–1967), and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 1899–1966). They were married in 1914. His father, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, in Abruzzo, and his maternal grandparents’ origins are believed to be also from Abruzzo even if it is not clearly known. Martin had an older brother named William Alfonso Crocetti (1916-1968).
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Martin’s first language was an Abruzzese dialect of Italian, and he did not speak English until he started school at the age of 5. He attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville where he was bullied for his broken English, he later took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager. Martin then dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought he was smarter than his teachers. He bootlegged liquor, served as a speakeasy croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill and boxed as a welterweight. Martin attracted the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, but a Hollywood contract was not forthcoming. He met comic Jerry Lewis at the Glass Hat Club in New York, where both were performing. Martin and Lewis formed a fast friendship which led to their participation in each other’s acts and the formation of a music-comedy team.
Martin and Lewis’s debut together occurred at Atlantic City’s 500 Club on July 24, 1946, and they were not well received. The owner, Skinny D’Amato, warned them that if they did not come up with a better act for their second show that night, they would be fired. Huddling in the alley behind the club, Lewis and Martin agreed to “go for broke”, to throw out pre-scripted gags and to improvise. Martin sang and Lewis dressed as a busboy, dropping plates and making a shambles of Martin’s performance and the club’s decorum until Lewis was chased from the room as Martin pelted him with breadrolls. They did slapstick, reeled off old vaudeville jokes, and did whatever else popped into their heads. The audience laughed. This success led to a series of well-paying engagements on the Eastern seaboard, culminating in a run at New York’s Copacabana. The act consisted of Lewis interrupting and heckling Martin while he was trying to sing, with the two ultimately chasing each other around the stage. The secret, both said, is that they ignored the audience and played to each other. Never comfortable in films, Martin wanted to be a real actor. Though offered a fraction of his former salary to co-star in a war drama, The Young Lions (1958), his part would be with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. Tony Randall already had the part, but talent agency MCA realized that with this film, Martin would become a triple threat: they could make money from his work in night clubs, films and records. Martin replaced Randall and the film turned out to be the beginning of Martin’s comeback. Martin was acclaimed as Dude in Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks and also starring John Wayne and singer Ricky Nelson. He would team again with Wayne in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), cast as brothers. As Martin’s solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack, so-called after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member. (The Martin-Sinatra-Davis-Lawford-Bishop group referred to themselves as “The Summit” or “The Clan” and never as “The Rat Pack”, although this has remained their identity in popular imagination.) The men made films together, formed part of the Hollywood social scene, and were politically influential (through Lawford’s marriage to Patricia Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kennedy). Though he continued to perform, Martin’s visibility was greatest in films and on TV, where he nursed his lush-in-a-tux image with the long-running Dean Martin Variety Show and the hugely successful Dean Martin’s Celebrity Roast.
Acting credits
1985 Half Nelson (TV Movie)
Mr. Martin
1984 Cannonball Run II
Jamie Blake
1981 The Cannonball Run
Jamie Blake
1979 Vega$ (TV Series)
Dean Martin
– The Usurper (1979) … Dean Martin
1978 Charlie’s Angels (TV Series)
Frank Howell
– Angels in Vegas (1978) … Frank Howell
1975 Mr. Ricco
Joe Ricco
1973 Showdown
Billy Massey
1971 Something Big
Joe Baker
1970 Swing Out, Sweet Land (TV Movie)
Eli Whitney
1970 Airport
Vernon Demerest
1968 The Wrecking Crew
Matt Helm
1968 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series)
Goodfellow’s Baby
– Episode dated 25 September 1968 (1968) … Goodfellow’s Baby (uncredited)
1968 5 Card Stud
Van Morgan
1968 Bandolero!
Dee Bishop
1968 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
David Sloane
1967 The Ambushers
Matt Helm
1967 Rough Night in Jericho
Alex Flood
1966 Murderers’ Row
Matt Helm
1966 Texas Across the River
Sam Hollis
1966 Birds Do It
Dean Martin
1966 The Silencers
Matt Helm
1965 Marriage on the Rocks
Ernie Brewer
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
Tom Elder
1964 Kiss Me, Stupid
Dino
1964 Rawhide (TV Series)
Gurd Canliss
– Canliss (1964) … Gurd Canliss
1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods
John
1964 What a Way to Go!
Leonard ‘Lennie’ Crawley
1963 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Jason Steel
1963 4 for Texas
Joe Jarrett
1963 Toys in the Attic
Julian Berniers
1963 Come Blow Your Horn
The Bum (uncredited)
1962 Something’s Got to Give (Short)
Nicholas ‘Nick’ Arden
1962 Who’s Got the Action?
Steve Flood
1962 The Road to Hong Kong
The ‘Grape’ on Plutomium (uncredited)
1962 Sergeants 3
Sgt. Chip Deal
1961 Ada
Bo Gillis
1961 All in a Night’s Work
Tony Ryder
1960 Ocean’s 11
Sam Harmon
1960 Bells Are Ringing
Jeffrey Moss
1960 Who Was That Lady?
Michael Haney
1959 Career
Maurice ‘Maury’ Novak
1959 Rio Bravo
Dude (‘Borachón’)
1958 Some Came Running
Bama Dillert
1958 The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series)
Unnamed Las Vegas Gambler
– Bilko’s Secret Mission (1958) … Unnamed Las Vegas Gambler (uncredited)
1958 The Young Lions
Michael Whiteacre
1958 Make Room for Daddy (TV Series)
Dean Martin
– Terry’s Crush (1958) … Dean Martin
1957 Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Ray Hunter
1956 Hollywood or Bust
Steve Wiley
1956 Pardners
Slim Mosely Jr. / Slim Mosely Sr.
1955 Artists and Models
Rick Todd
1955 You’re Never Too Young
Bob Miles
1954 3 Ring Circus
Peter ‘Pete’ Nelson
1954 Living It Up
Dr. Steve Harris
1953 Money from Home
Herman ‘Honey Talk’ Nelson
1953 The Caddy
Joe Anthony
1953 Scared Stiff
Larry Todd
1952 The Stooge
Bill Miller
1952 Road to Bali
Man in Lala’s Dream (uncredited)
1952 Jumping Jacks
Cpl. Chick Allen
1952 Sailor Beware
Al Crowthers
1951 That’s My Boy
Bill Baker
1950 At War with the Army
1st Sgt. Vic Puccinelli
1950 My Friend Irma Goes West
Steve Laird
1949 My Friend Irma
Steve
1946 Film Vodvil: Art Mooney and Orchestra (Short)
Singer with Art Mooney Band