Teaming with Jerry LewisMartin and Lewis formed a fast friendship which led to their participation in each other's acts and the formation of a music-comedy team. Their debut together occurred at Atlantic City's 500 Club on July 24, 1946, and they were not well received.
A staunch civil-rights advocate who refused to entertain in venues that discriminated against African Americans and Jews, Martin was fiercely proud of his Italian heritage. Indeed, he abhorred “The Godfather”: “I hated that movie, what it did to the Italian people. There was no call for that.”
Leonard Barr was a comic and eccentric dancer who was famous for truly being Dean Martin's uncle, as he was the brother of Dino's mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra).
Friends in the chapel included Barbara Sinatra, (Frank was too overwrought to attend), Nancy Sinatra Jr., the Lew Wassermans, Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse, the Don Rickleses, the Bob Newharts, the Robert Stacks, the Tony Danzas, Angie Dickinson, Edie Adams, the Freddie Fieldses, Dorothy Hamill, Dean's longtime agent ...
Dean Paul Martin Jr. (born Dino Paul Crocetti Jr.; November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died in a crash during a military training flight. He was the son of the entertainer Dean Martin.
He was almost certainly fluent in dialect and could probably converse with a fair degree of success with others speaking only standard Italian, however, with a first-generation Italian-American father, his siblings, and his cousins, such fluency would have faded over Martin's adult and senior years.
A sidenote: Wikipedia says "Martin did not attempt to deliver the lyrics in an authentic Italian accent, but used the accent of an American trying to mimic Italian pronunciation." In fact, Martin's Italian was not that good, judging from his pronunciation in songs like "Volare"!
Dean Martin (born June 7, 1917, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.—died December 25, 1995, Beverly Hills, California) American singer and actor who was a member, with Jerry Lewis, of one of the most popular comedy teams on stage and television and in motion pictures for 10 years.
What happened to Dean Martin at the end of his life?
He retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995 (29 years to the day after his own mother died), at age 78. The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor.
Early in his career, Dean Martin married for the first time to Elizabeth Anne "Betty" McDonald in 1941. Because of speculative alcoholism and infidelity in their home, the marriage only lasted nine years. But together they had four children: Craig, Claudia, Barbara Gail, and Deanna.
Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, to Gaetano Alfonso "Guy" Crocetti, an Italian immigrant and barber, and his Ohio-born wife, Angela (Barra) Crocetti.
Many biographers have written about Elvis' admiration and idolisation of Dean Martin but unfortunately their reviews are often prematurely brief and light on detail. It is in the few biographies on 'Dino' that this influence is best covered.
Robert De Niro has alweys been proud of his Italian roots, as a matter of fact his great-grandparents were from Molise. His ability in speaking the Sicilian dialect in The Godfather II led him to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Clint Eastwood acted in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy.
The remains of Dean Paul Martin, the oldest son of the entertainer Dean Martin, and another flier were found Wednesday by rescue workers in the San Bernardino Mountains where their fighter plane was lost six days ago, the Air National Guard said. ''Capt. Dean Paul Martin and Capt.
