Carol Lawrence..........From my Home Town of Melrose Park, IL. I still remember watching her perform on the Marquee on the theater in the center of the Main street in town at the Festa Italiano. Buona Sera Signiorina, Buona Sera.
Everyone was in love with Dean Martin, especially women. He had the ability to make everyone comfortable with him, they had fun with him, and affectionate flirting was the order of the day.
Interesting ! I was singing this tune yesterday and I found difficult to enter this part exactly as he did. It´s kinda tricky... The tendency is to go to another key. Of course, this here was not real, but may have been from a real story.
You missed the point. Every single TV show depended on cue cards. Dean Martin, however, made it obvious that there were cue cards, and any mistakes were left as is, included as part of the show, because they were funny. He was an agent of change in TV for that reason. He broke a lot of rules, one of which was rehearsals. He had it in his contract that he didn't have to go to rehearsals. After 10 years of doing improv with Jerry Lewis, why would he?
the point is that it didn't matter - the blooper was included as part of the show!!!! His refusal to go to rehearsal is what gave the show its freshness and its humour. He knew what he was doing, and he could handle anything that came up. You don't see any sign of embarrassment on his part, he knew how to just keep going, and make it funny. He was an incredible entertainer.
Dean was the first TV performer to include bloopers in the show, and that's part of what made the show such a success. If you watch his early sketches with Jerry Lewis, you can see why bloopers did not faze him. The Colgate Comedy Hour. Can't stand Jerry Lewis, but the pair sure did a lot of slapstick improv that was hugely successful.
When will the public ever learn. He was never ever ever drunk the FCC would not allow it to happen to go on television like that. I don't know if you're lying so that we could tell you the truth, but if you pay very very very close attention he never did drink when he was with Jerry Lewis in the movies or in public on a talk show or whatever at the time. When he broke up with Jerry Lewis he needed a new image to make a long story short but I'm sure you can look it up. It was suggested to him because he was Italian to give it that Italian flare by putting a glass of wine or some kind of beverage in his hands in a cigarette in the other and this allowed him to look cool and make him look natural so other people could relate to him people that drink and smoke back in the day. When Foster Brooks became famous, he was not a drunk he just portrayed one. Jack Benny's image was to be cheap though he wasn't in real life. Flavor Flav wears a clock around his neck are you telling me he doesn't know what time it is? George Burns always had a cigar in his hand but it would hardly ever puff on it it's all part of the ACT even if he stopped using a glass of Martinelli's apple juice at which it was 99% of the time, and didn't hold a cigarette in his hands, he wouldn't be the same cuz everyone's so used to him being that way. Do some research and I'm sure you and others that don't agree will finally agree.
Dean Martin was never a drunk. He could never have had such a successful career if he had been a drunk. He was the highest paid entertainer in the world at one point - and his show lasted nearly 10 years. NBC gave him whatever he wanted. He avoided parties, went home for dinner, golfed every day first thing in the morning so he went to bed earlyj, was a "particularly good" golfer who golfed with pros like Sam Snead. Most of all, he does not look like a drunk. He looked far too healthy. If it weren't for smoking, and his son's death, he'd have lived to near 100. He was a kind person, and that shows in the way he dealt with horses. He raised and trained Andalusian horses (there's a youtube on him and his horses), and that's something you can't do if you're a drunk. It's clear that the horses adored him, and he always took his own horses with him when he shot westerns. What people said about him was that wherever he happened to be, a party would break out, because he was just so much fun to be with. But he avoided Frank Sinatra's parties, even though they were best of friends. Elvis Presley's favourite singer, and Elvis christened him "King of Cool".
