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Author : Jerry Lewis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447204824
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dean And Me written by Jerry Lewis and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years after WWII, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis weren't only the most successful show business act in history, they were history. Starting as a fill-in for another act in Atlantic city, their improvised, anarchic routines soon sold out all the greatest venues in America. They made films, they made millions. They made a legend. But amidst the dazzling success and the late night laughter, tensions developed between the reserved straight man, Martin, and the manic goon, Lewis. When the duo, who had reinvented the comic double-act, split acrimoniously in 1956 they didn't speak to one another for the next 20 years. This is an intimate memoir of those years of fame and success by one of the only surviving legends of the rat-pack era. Jerry Lewis remembers everything - the casinos, the mobsters, the endless pranks, the cocktails, the women, the meteoric rise to stardom. Here for the first and only time and in his own inimitable, wise-cracking voice he re-lives his days of glory with Dean Martin and gives a frank account of their relationship and break-up. A hilarious ride and heart-breaking, cautionary tale of what fame and fortune can do to love and friendship.

Author : Michael J. Hayde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629333533
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Side By Side written by Michael J. Hayde and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure trove for any fan of Dean and Jerry, packed with valuable information, behind-the-scenes stories, and a dizzying array of rare photos. I couldn't put this book down!" - Leonard Maltin Michael J. Hayde is the author of My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb, Chaplin's Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials and Flights of Fantasy: The Unauthorized but True Story of Radio & TV's Adventures of Superman.

Author : Jerry Lewis
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767920872
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dean and Me written by Jerry Lewis and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years after it all started, it ended suddenly. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies—their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man’s heart. In Dean & Me, Lewis makes a convincing case for Martin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time.

Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312132484
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of Comedy written by Shawn Levy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Jerry Lewis, discussing his varied career as a performer, director, fundraiser, and standard-setting comedian, and looking at the private man and the forces that drive him.

Author : Deana Martin
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307538265
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories Are Made of This written by Deana Martin and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deana Martin's captivating, heartfelt memoir of her father, Dean Martin Charming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more than fifty years. His daughter Deana was among his most devoted fans, but she also knew a side of him that few others ever glimpsed. In this heartfelt memoir, Deana recalls the constantly changing blended family that marked her youth, along with the unexpected moments of silliness and tenderness that this unusual Hollywood family shared. She candidly reveals the impact of Dean’s fame and characteristic aloofness, but delights in sharing wonderful, never-before-told stories about her father and his pallies known as the Rat Pack. This enchanting account of life as the daughter of one of Hollywood’s sexiest icons will leave you entertained, delighted, and nostalgic for a time gone by.

Author : William Schoell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 146174170X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martini Man written by William Schoell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-10-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie roles receive in-depth attention in this incisive biography, as does his career-defining partnership with Jerry Lewis, details of Dino's personal life also abound, such as how Shierly MacLaine dropped by his house "to tell Dean she was in love with him-even though his wife was in the other room." William Schoell's chronicle is a sympathetic portrait that recreates the life and times of one of America's favorite entertainers.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 038533429X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dino written by Nick Tosches and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-04-13 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.

Author : Arthur Marx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (especially Himself) written by Arthur Marx and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides full coverage of the zany antics of Martin & Lewis during their heyday as a comedy team, exposes their penchant for outrageous practical jokes and their tyrannical relationship with their gag writers and other employees. Dino's role as husband, father, and lover comes under keen scrutiny. We see Jerry's courtship and long marriage to Patti and the trials and tribulations of an entertainer's wife. And we see Dino's pursuit of his first wife, Betty, the events leading to the bustup of the marriage--then the marriage to Jeanne, the dissolution of that union, and the resulting marriage to his present wife, Cathy.

Author : Michael J. Hayde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781386572268
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Side by Side written by Michael J. Hayde and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Maclaine
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307765059
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Lucky Stars written by Shirley Maclaine and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is like nothing you’ve read before about the world of movies—written by a movie star.”—Liz Smith An Academy Award-winning actress and the internationally bestselling author of Out on a Limb delivers her touching, warm, and headline-making memoir. In My Lucky Stars Shirley MacLaine talks candidly and personally about her four decades in Hollywood, especially about the men and women—her “lucky stars”—who touched and challenged her life. “[Maclaine is] an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review