Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had something magical, just those few seconds of interaction lit the room up. Jerry Lewis also shows how difficult it is to keep up with his comedic banter, the Martin and Lewis team made that look so natural and spontaneous. Thank you for this.
I had the same thought! Seeing him with Eddie you can see how much Dean complimented him, and then qhen Dean came out Jerry was injected with more light and joyful energy! Really special and sweet to see.
This was AMAZING! Seeing Dean walking on and joking with Jerry as if nothing happened (and Bing pulling him off was hilarious!). Thank you so much for uploading this piece of Martin and Lewis history (and also I wanna congratulate you on your great research work on the many times these two great entertainers crossed paths during those 20 years before the 1976 MDA Telethon).
That video, from 1958, is proof positive that Martin and Lewis did appear on the same stage years before the MDA telethon in 1976. The big difference is that Martin just said a few words and split. In 1976 he and Lewis tried (no thanks to Sinatra's interference) to have a conversation. As a side-note; Eddie Fisher seemed more surprised than Lewis did when Martin and Bing Crosby emerged from behind the curtain.
Oh my goodness, what a treat! I'd read about this about a year back or so and hoped it had been uploaded somewhere but I was sadly disappointed. I was so shocked to finally be able to see it. Thank you so much Donazify.
I have been searching for this for years and got nowhere! Wherever it came from, thank you so much for posting this great piece of show business history.
The airdate of this classic show was September 30th, 1958…more than two years since Lewis and Martin had officially ended their comedy act…story has it neither Fisher nor Lewis had any notion that Dean was backstage…and it would be another 18 years before the two would get together again….now that’s CLASSIC TV
No they got together again and had quite a few reunions in those years. The 20 years was always a myth. Dean and Jerry were on the same stage together during the '59 Oscars and the communicated there, as well as another televised appearance at the '66 Golden Globes after the show. I have another reunion on my channel, but here is the complete list we have currently of all the reunions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vy49Wqm_Cr4.html&t=
“The Bar Mitvah’s Satahday. Get outta here!” Dean made an appearance just to throw Jerry off. And to be perfectly honest, Dean’s appearance made Jerry more electric. He knew Dean was watching and listening.
i’ve never seen this clip until i saw your tumblr link. great to see dean walk-on. ‘return to me’ .......of course, ‘dont sing it’ is a joke from a past intro on the CCH
I knew of Eddie Fisher growing up, but was not alive during the height of his career. I recently saw a RU-vid video of him singing with Andy Williams, and Bobby Darin for the first time. Boy, I had no clue how great of a singer he was. I love both Andy, and Bobby's voices, but Eddie could sing equally as good.
Fisher had a great voice. What torpedoed his career was leaving his wife (Debbie Reynolds) for Liz Taylor; who later dumped Fisher for Richard Burton. Also drugs and booze didn't help his singing voice.
Although I don't remember most of the Eddie Fishers career, I found out later that he was the one who sang one of the first songs I remember hearing on the radio, Cindy Oh Cindy, when I was about seven years old.
I wonder what would have happened had Bing not pulled Dean off the stage I wish we got a serious version of this song from him. It was great when he started at the beginning of the clip
What occurs in 6:05 proves a lot of things: 1. Jerry and Dean DID stay in contact after they split their team because they loved each other like brothers. 2. Bing appearing suddenly with Dean to surprise Jerry (and Eddie) shows that Jerry's claim about Bing and him having a feud associated with Bing's fear of Jerry messing with his toupee at a 50s telethon was not true or was exaggerated by Jerry. 3. As talented as all these guys were as actors, there's no way to hide true, spontaneous emotions when they are genuinely and pleasantly surprised, as Jerry and Eddie were, and 4. "Anything for a laugh", they were 1-derful crowd pleasers.
I believe the feud issue between Lewis and Crosby was real because of comments Bob Hope made during an interview in which he said that Crosby either liked someone or he didn't and if he didn't then one would be on his 's' list forever. Perhaps Crosby participated in this surprise appearance as a favor to Dean, who he liked very much.
@@markgiardina1303 That's possible, I heard Hope saying something like that once. Besides, Jerry seemed unaware of who was the guy who pulled Dean back until Eddie made fun of Bing's song and singing style, as if Jerry didn't recognized him at first. Blessings from San Juan PR !!!
This was around the time that Fisher’s best friend Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash and Fisher divorced his wife Debbie Reynolds and married Todd’s widow, Elizabeth Taylor. It was quite a scandal in 1958.
Wonderful! I'm working on an episode right now but when I'm done I'll do this story next. Even though they were long broken up when I was a kid, I always held out hope Martin and Lewis would get back together and do a movie or two. It's very interesting to find out this info, I've read Jerry's autobiography and I don't recall him mentioning this at all. Thanks for posting this and letting me use it!
@@TonyBoyOhBoy Excellent! There is also the footage from 1961 at the Coconut Grove where they reunited. I have that footage on my channel as well. Here is a link to a list of their reunions on this post I had made at one point. If you have trouble understanding it, I can make a more organized timeline for you by year of Martin and Lewis' reunions, if you want? Also check out Side by Side: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on tv and radio by Michael J. Hayde. He mentions some of these lesser known reunions in the book, which I helped contribute to with that info and footage/photos: jerrylevitch.tumblr.com/post/177117984914/woah-woah-woah-pause-hold-the-phone-stop-the
@@Donazify Thank you, I will probably use a lot of this. It's a bit of a puzzling story. While I know they weren't close after the breakup, there was always the perception that they had absolutely nothing to do with each other for 20 years years. Clearly after seeing all this, it wasn't the case. Was it a game they were playing with the media and public? Very intriguing!
@@TonyBoyOhBoy Someone confronted Jerry about the reunions once and why he didn't want to talk about them, and he said it wasn't anyone's business, and that they did get together privately on occasion. I have a very interesting article, that talks about the night of the break-up and where Jerry was interviewed just hrs after their last show together. The interviewer that was there said that Dean was red eyed and had tears in his eyes. This was very interesting since their bandleader Dick Stabile said Dean only had one tear in his eye, meanwhile Jerry was the only one distraught.
Was this there only appearance together between the break up and the 1976 reunion of Jerry's Telethon? It has been said that they never even saw each other for 20 years. But I always doubted that.
Absolutely not, they met a lot of times. Me and my friend document and share them on our 2 hr discussion about the 20 yr silence myth. We have a bunch articles and clippings which discuss different reunions, plus excerpts from books on them. There's other footage of them at the Coconut Grove in '61, on my channel as well, or in our video also ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vy49Wqm_Cr4.html
I think your date may be off in your description. Martin and Lewis split July 25, 1956 and didnt talk to each other for 20 years. But by looking at how old jerry was in this clip I would say it was the year before the split in 1955. Not trying to be rude just letting you know.
They did see each other after they split Christyc250. I'm sure Donazify knows the date and that's why the crowd screamed so loudly and why Jerry sang 'Return To me'. Amazing stuff.
@@bunnyhop3211 Right! Jerry jokes that he "hadn't worked with a singer in a few years". I have to say that I was SHOCKED to see this. Grew up (I'm 51) always reading that they weren't on stage together until the '76 MS show. This was CRAZY to see. :-)
They had many reunions in between the years of 1956-1976. The 20 year thing is a myth. If you look on my channel there is another public reunion at the Coconut Grove in 1961. There was another one when Jerry hosted the Oscars in 1959, and Dean was on stage at the same time, and Jerry said " And they said Dean and I would never be on the same stage together again." There was another reunion at the Sands in 1960 where they actually did a 15 min act on stage together. This was in articles of the time and in Who the Hell's in It by Peter Bogdanovich. Also there are photos with dates and newspaper clippings from after this show, that state that Dean appeared briefly. All these date 9/30/1958.
jerrylevitch.tumblr.com/post/177117984914/woah-woah-woah-pause-hold-the-phone-stop-the That is the link to all the known reunions and communication between them after their breakup.
