Dean and Me: (A Love Story)

Dean and Me: (A Love Story)

They were the unlikeliest of pairsâ€”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 clickedâ€”something miraculousâ€”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 (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without endâ€”and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended.

After that traumatic day, the two wouldnâ€™t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careersâ€”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 comediesâ€”their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each manâ€™s heart.

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of a fifty-year friendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the two vibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together met on Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic final encounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into Dean Martin, a broken and haunted old man.

In Dean & Me, Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for Dean Martin as one of the greatâ€”and most underratedâ€”comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2005-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780767920865

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2005-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780767920865

Dean and Me: (A Love Story)

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