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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations |
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They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome Italian crooner and a skinny Jewish monkey. The moment they got together, something clicked--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis would be after them, grabbing an unprecedented hold over radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution--and then, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended. The two wouldn't speak again for twenty years. While both went on to forge triumphant individual careers, their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man's heart. In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Lewis recounts a fifty-year friendship, and makes a case for Dean Martin as one of the great--and most underrated--comic talents of our era.--From publisher description. |
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A memoir by the legendary funny man recalls his long-time partnership with crooner Dean Martin, their decade-long success as a team, their traumatic breakup and individual careers, and the effects of their estrangement and its aftermath. |
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Includes index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Martin, Dean, 1917-1995.
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Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017.
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Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017. |
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Martin, Dean, 1917-1995. |
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Martin, Dean. |
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Lewis, Jerry. |
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Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
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Entertainers. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Kaplan, James, 1951-
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| Added Title |
Dean and me |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Jerry, 1926- Dean & me New York : Doubleday, 2005 0767920864 (DLC) 2005049682 (OCoLC)60776843 |
| ISBN |
9780307423559 : $50.97 |
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0307423557 : $50.97 |
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