1 00:00:03,470 --> 00:00:05,600 ‐ [Frankie] In the dictionary if it said "the coolest" 2 00:00:05,606 --> 00:00:08,141 it would have to be underlined Dean Martin. 3 00:00:08,141 --> 00:00:12,581 ♪ Everybody loves somebody 4 00:00:13,981 --> 00:00:16,081 ‐ sometime. Yessir. 5 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:20,548 ‐ [Frankie] When I worked with Dean on his television show, 6 00:00:21,688 --> 00:00:23,618 when I saw the show being played, 7 00:00:24,791 --> 00:00:26,460 you would think as a performer... 8 00:00:26,460 --> 00:00:28,090 ‐ Oh no, I didn’t miss it, I hit my head. 9 00:00:28,095 --> 00:00:29,395 ‐ [Frankie] ...you would look at yourself. 10 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:30,697 (laughs) 11 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:32,427 ‐ I feel pretty good tonight. 12 00:00:32,432 --> 00:00:34,202 ‐ My eyes were still on Dean Martin. 13 00:00:36,537 --> 00:00:38,277 That’s how impressive he was to me. 14 00:00:40,173 --> 00:00:42,973 ‐ He was a natural, one of a kind. 15 00:00:42,976 --> 00:00:44,444 ‐ Few of the boys and myself, 16 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:46,144 we have a little poker game now and then, 17 00:00:46,146 --> 00:00:48,482 we’d kinda like have a little new blood. 18 00:00:48,482 --> 00:00:52,119 ‐ Dean Martin is a gigantic star in the history 19 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:53,949 of the 20th century. 20 00:00:53,954 --> 00:00:57,257 ‐ When Dino sings, I can hear him smiling. 21 00:00:57,257 --> 00:01:01,027 ♪ Love was made for me and you 22 00:01:01,028 --> 00:01:02,128 ‐ [Frankie] He just had something 23 00:01:02,129 --> 00:01:03,459 no one else had had before. 24 00:01:07,801 --> 00:01:10,201 ‐ [Narrator] Dean was a straight man, romantic lead, 25 00:01:10,203 --> 00:01:12,603 singer, dancer, he was funny. 26 00:01:12,606 --> 00:01:13,907 ‐ He did everything. 27 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:17,437 ‐ Very few artists have been able to express 28 00:01:17,444 --> 00:01:20,213 so many different talents, successfully. 29 00:01:20,213 --> 00:01:22,913 ‐ [Will] 750 recordings and 60 films, 30 00:01:22,916 --> 00:01:24,451 and two decades on TV. 31 00:01:24,451 --> 00:01:26,520 ‐ [Bill] All combined, 32 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,320 unlikely that we will ever see again. 33 00:01:29,323 --> 00:01:31,658 ‐ He’s got a fundamental cool 34 00:01:31,658 --> 00:01:34,188 that is very aspirational for a lot of people. 35 00:01:34,194 --> 00:01:35,462 (chuckles) 36 00:01:35,462 --> 00:01:38,532 ‐ Even the people that don’t know Dean Martin 37 00:01:38,532 --> 00:01:40,767 and might not traditionally be drawn 38 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:43,297 to somebody of his era or of his genre, 39 00:01:44,805 --> 00:01:48,609 you can study him because I don’t think there’s anybody 40 00:01:48,609 --> 00:01:52,709 that captures or embodies all of the qualities 41 00:01:52,713 --> 00:01:57,553 of American cool the way Dean Martin did. He had all of it. 42 00:01:58,151 --> 00:02:00,651 (upbeat music) 43 00:02:01,822 --> 00:02:04,191 ‐ To be cool was, to borrow from Hemingway, 44 00:02:04,191 --> 00:02:06,860 having a certain kind of grace under pressure. 45 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:09,029 You didn’t let things rattle you. 46 00:02:09,029 --> 00:02:10,697 ‐ He could be in an avalanche 47 00:02:10,697 --> 00:02:11,927 and he would make it look easy. 48 00:02:11,932 --> 00:02:13,262 ‐ We made a mistake and we’re doing it again. 49 00:02:13,266 --> 00:02:16,936 That’s why they’re not laughing, that’s why. 50 00:02:18,372 --> 00:02:21,508 ‐ I have to say I idolized him and I loved him. 51 00:02:21,508 --> 00:02:22,738 ‐ I loved Dean. 52 00:02:22,743 --> 00:02:23,843 ‐ Oh, and I loved Dean. 53 00:02:23,844 --> 00:02:24,778 ‐ He was very special. 54 00:02:24,778 --> 00:02:27,178 ‐ He was just a dear soul. 55 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:31,380 ‐ He was delicious, warm. He invited you in. 56 00:02:33,954 --> 00:02:37,457 ‐ [Ron] Two of the coolest people, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, 57 00:02:37,457 --> 00:02:39,917 wanted to be as cool as Dean Martin. 58 00:02:39,926 --> 00:02:41,461 ‐ [Jeanne] Frank wanted to be Dean. 59 00:02:41,461 --> 00:02:42,761 ‐ Elvis Presley. 60 00:02:44,464 --> 00:02:45,932 ‐ When I met Elvis, he said, 61 00:02:45,932 --> 00:02:48,168 "They call me the King of Rock and Roll, 62 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:50,198 but your dad is the King of Cool." 63 00:02:50,203 --> 00:02:52,539 And I’ll never forget that, it was like, 64 00:02:52,539 --> 00:02:54,809 Elvis Presley thinks my dad’s the King of Cool. 65 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:08,188 ‐ Another element of cool, which is sort of an X factor, 66 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:10,248 is a sense of mystery. 67 00:03:10,257 --> 00:03:12,359 There has to be something unknowable. 68 00:03:12,359 --> 00:03:14,629 There has to be an undealt card. 69 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:21,930 ‐ Dean was mesmerizing in his complication. 70 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:26,473 He was such a complex, complicated guy. 71 00:03:26,473 --> 00:03:27,413 ‐ You got a minute? 72 00:03:31,978 --> 00:03:33,478 ‐ All right, these are excerpts from the poem 73 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,050 "The Secretary of Liquor." 74 00:03:37,784 --> 00:03:40,424 "Part of Martin’s appeal was that no one knew him. 75 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:47,490 It wasn’t a mask, his detachment was who he was. 76 00:03:47,494 --> 00:03:50,634 He showed up, his spirit remained elsewhere. 77 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:55,600 His wives and children found him unknowable. 78 00:03:58,705 --> 00:03:59,945 It wasn’t personal. 79 00:04:02,309 --> 00:04:04,177 When the producer of "The Colgate Comedy Hour" 80 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:07,207 suggested they have lunch to get to know one another, 81 00:04:07,214 --> 00:04:10,924 Dino set him straight, "No one gets to know me." 82 00:04:13,353 --> 00:04:15,353 ‐ You didn’t see a whole lot of him 83 00:04:15,355 --> 00:04:18,959 out of the dressing room or hanging around the set. 84 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:23,129 ‐ We all were crazy about just being in his company. 85 00:04:23,130 --> 00:04:27,367 But when you were in Dean Martin’s company, were you? 86 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:29,797 (chuckles) 87 00:04:29,803 --> 00:04:34,073 ‐ He had this distance, he had this menefreghista. 88 00:04:34,074 --> 00:04:35,742 ‐ I’ve seen different pronunciations of this word, 89 00:04:35,742 --> 00:04:40,752 which is a, basically, the Italian élan of "who gives a F." 90 00:04:41,748 --> 00:04:44,748 (audience laughing) 91 00:04:46,820 --> 00:04:48,050 There was something about him 92 00:04:48,054 --> 00:04:51,792 that was a wonderful personality trait, 93 00:04:51,792 --> 00:04:54,161 a card he had in his hand, 94 00:04:54,161 --> 00:04:56,331 which is that you don’t take it too seriously. 95 00:04:57,264 --> 00:04:58,204 ‐ Menefreghista. 96 00:04:59,699 --> 00:05:00,929 ‐ [Interviewer] What does that mean? 97 00:05:00,934 --> 00:05:02,334 ‐ It means he who doesn’t give a darn, 98 00:05:02,335 --> 00:05:03,904 he who could not care less. 99 00:05:03,904 --> 00:05:04,838 ‐ [Interviewer] Doesn’t give a fuck. 100 00:05:04,838 --> 00:05:06,338 ‐ Well, I’m not gonna say that. 101 00:05:09,576 --> 00:05:14,186 ‐ I met Dean on Rio Bravo, but he was always quiet. 102 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:18,755 When you’re that quiet, people don’t know you. 103 00:05:20,187 --> 00:05:22,397 I don’t think he wanted us to know him. 104 00:05:23,790 --> 00:05:27,060 ‐ Feathers, thanks for the shave, might call on ya again. 105 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:28,960 ‐ Anytime, because I’ll be here. 106 00:05:28,962 --> 00:05:30,630 ‐ Everyone has a number of walls 107 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:33,600 before you get to the core of the person. 108 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,200 And Dean had one wall that, in my opinion, 109 00:05:36,203 --> 00:05:37,543 no one ever got past. 110 00:05:38,738 --> 00:05:40,907 ‐ [Interviewer] What was Dean’s Rosebud? 111 00:05:40,907 --> 00:05:42,667 ‐ What was my dad’s Rosebud? 112 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:44,816 What drove my dad? 113 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:49,010 ‐ It isn’t enough to tell us what a man did, 114 00:05:49,015 --> 00:05:51,184 you’ve got to tell us who he was. 115 00:05:51,184 --> 00:05:54,421 Wait a minute, what were Kane’s last words? 116 00:05:54,421 --> 00:05:55,191 ‐ Rosebud. 117 00:05:56,723 --> 00:05:58,023 ‐ Now what does that mean? 118 00:05:58,024 --> 00:06:00,094 ‐ So what was Dean’s Rosebud? 119 00:06:01,228 --> 00:06:06,228 ‐ It’s an interesting question. 120 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:07,900 ‐ Hmm. 121 00:06:07,901 --> 00:06:10,501 ‐ I don’t know, I don’t know. 122 00:06:10,503 --> 00:06:12,373 ‐ That’s a very good question. 123 00:06:14,307 --> 00:06:17,837 ‐ If you wanna take the paradigm of "Citizen Kane" 124 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,314 and see how it relates to Dean. 125 00:06:21,314 --> 00:06:24,517 In "Citizen Kane" there’s the young kid is out 126 00:06:24,517 --> 00:06:26,877 and he’s sledding and having a great time. 127 00:06:26,887 --> 00:06:28,257 But then he’s sent away, 128 00:06:29,422 --> 00:06:32,892 and he’s sent from his happy sledding life. 129 00:06:32,893 --> 00:06:37,763 He never feels that sense of joy again. 130 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,100 - That’s a good question, what was Dean’s Rosebud? 131 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:50,116 I see this guy in a glorious suit or tuxedo, 132 00:06:51,544 --> 00:06:55,248 and I see him undress, this is all in my mind’s eye, 133 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:57,248 and I see him undress 134 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,120 and, uh... 135 00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:01,352 and he’s one of the guys from Steubenville. 136 00:07:01,354 --> 00:07:03,754 (soft music) 137 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:16,234 ‐ He was this guy from Steubenville 138 00:07:16,236 --> 00:07:20,846 who had lucked into mega fame as nobody ever had before. 139 00:07:23,510 --> 00:07:26,240 ‐ My stepfather is from Steubenville, Ohio. 140 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,480 My first time driving into Steubenville 141 00:07:31,484 --> 00:07:34,494 there’s a sign. "Home of Dean Martin." 142 00:07:35,488 --> 00:07:36,518 I’m like, wow, okay. 143 00:07:37,958 --> 00:07:40,988 There’s an icon who I’m a fan of that comes from here. 144 00:07:40,994 --> 00:07:43,294 So maybe the town is okay. 145 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:45,636 It just gave me a sense of hope. 146 00:07:49,102 --> 00:07:50,502 ‐ Growing up in Steubenville, 147 00:07:50,503 --> 00:07:52,003 there weren’t a lot of opportunities. 148 00:07:52,005 --> 00:07:53,940 ‐ There have been people throughout the years 149 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:55,410 that have called it Stupidville. 150 00:07:57,344 --> 00:07:59,579 ‐ They used to call Steubenville "little Chicago." 151 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:01,309 A lot of cards and a lot of liquor. 152 00:08:03,249 --> 00:08:04,849 ‐ [James] Steubenville was a wide open town. 153 00:08:04,851 --> 00:08:08,251 Steubenville was gambling dens and whorehouses. 154 00:08:08,254 --> 00:08:09,789 ‐ Steel mills all around you 155 00:08:09,789 --> 00:08:12,719 and people who are working there or nowhere working. 156 00:08:14,361 --> 00:08:15,628 ‐ He knew that there was something 157 00:08:15,628 --> 00:08:17,628 beyond Steubenville, Ohio. 158 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:20,800 He just knew there was something more for him in life. 159 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,400 (upbeat music) 160 00:08:30,543 --> 00:08:32,843 Dad was born in 1917. 161 00:08:32,846 --> 00:08:34,447 He was born to sing. 162 00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:36,447 He loved to sing, he loved to entertain. 163 00:08:36,449 --> 00:08:38,779 He was just a happy‐go‐lucky kid. 164 00:08:38,785 --> 00:08:42,689 ‐ His mother said, "I don’t know where it comes from, 165 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:44,819 but he got all the charm." 166 00:08:45,992 --> 00:08:49,692 Dean’s brother Bill was very much like him. 167 00:08:49,696 --> 00:08:52,332 He became Dean’s business manager. 168 00:08:52,332 --> 00:08:55,872 You never, ever heard a harsh word out of this man. 169 00:08:57,303 --> 00:08:59,739 ‐ [Deana] My grandfather was a barber at that time. 170 00:08:59,739 --> 00:09:04,739 ‐ [Mike] Dean and his dad had same type of personality, 171 00:09:05,478 --> 00:09:06,838 he liked to joke a lot. 172 00:09:06,846 --> 00:09:10,583 ‐ Dean’s father was an absolute sweetheart. 173 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:13,420 I never heard him raise his voice in anger. 174 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:17,420 He was a funny man, he was a gentle man. 175 00:09:18,625 --> 00:09:21,227 ‐ [Deana] My grandmother Angela was a seamstress, 176 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:24,427 and that’s where my dad got his incredible style. 177 00:09:24,431 --> 00:09:26,961 ♪ You should care for me. 178 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:28,334 ‐ Are you ready? 179 00:09:28,334 --> 00:09:29,274 ‐ Let’s slaughter ’em. 180 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:32,597 ‐ She would alter everything. 181 00:09:32,605 --> 00:09:36,275 Say if it was my father’s younger brother Bill 182 00:09:36,276 --> 00:09:39,279 he had a suit, and then if my dad was going to wear it 183 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:41,449 she would alter it so it would fit him. 184 00:09:42,849 --> 00:09:44,579 ‐ [Mike] She did help a lot of people in them days. 185 00:09:44,584 --> 00:09:47,420 She did a lot of charity work. 186 00:09:47,420 --> 00:09:49,920 Very few people had any money. 187 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:52,058 ‐ In the Italian section 188 00:09:52,058 --> 00:09:54,928 there was a real fear of the outside world. 189 00:09:54,928 --> 00:09:57,458 They were so, so tight. 190 00:10:01,668 --> 00:10:05,198 ‐ Growing in an Italian family we had so many friends. 191 00:10:05,205 --> 00:10:08,174 Food, it was something that unites you. 192 00:10:08,174 --> 00:10:12,544 ♪ Do they take ’em for espresso, yeah, I guess so ♪ 193 00:10:12,545 --> 00:10:14,280 ♪ On each lover’s arm a girl 194 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,080 ‐ Mangia, Mangia! An ingredient that without it 195 00:10:18,084 --> 00:10:20,253 it doesn’t work, that’s the family. 196 00:10:20,253 --> 00:10:24,323 ♪ I am only one and one is much too few ♪ 197 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:27,660 ‐ That’s a kind of another manifestation of Italian culture 198 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:28,928 in the new world. 199 00:10:28,928 --> 00:10:30,658 He’s speaking to both Italians and Americans 200 00:10:30,663 --> 00:10:34,567 at the same time, in a way that’s so warm and engaging. 201 00:10:34,567 --> 00:10:37,597 ‐ His father’s side was from Abruzzo. 202 00:10:37,604 --> 00:10:42,041 The saying was "Keep yourself to yourself." 203 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:44,711 Otherwise people are gonna get over on you. 204 00:10:44,711 --> 00:10:47,811 ‐ Whatever it is it keeps in the family, 205 00:10:47,814 --> 00:10:49,914 because they can use against you, 206 00:10:49,916 --> 00:10:51,686 and especially in business. 207 00:10:52,719 --> 00:10:55,288 (opera music) 208 00:10:55,288 --> 00:10:57,188 ‐ When Dean was a very young boy, 209 00:10:57,190 --> 00:11:02,190 his parents were listening to typical Italian music. 210 00:11:03,096 --> 00:11:06,266 You had Enrico Caruso records. 211 00:11:06,266 --> 00:11:08,535 You had Carlo Buti. 212 00:11:08,535 --> 00:11:11,971 And that’s where Dean got his predilection 213 00:11:11,971 --> 00:11:14,541 for singing Italian songs. 214 00:11:14,541 --> 00:11:17,911 And because he had that native language 215 00:11:18,745 --> 00:11:20,545 singing them in Italian. 216 00:11:20,547 --> 00:11:24,851 (sings in Italian) 217 00:11:24,851 --> 00:11:27,787 ‐ Dean sang beautifully from an early age. 218 00:11:27,787 --> 00:11:32,087 (sings in Italian) 219 00:11:32,091 --> 00:11:36,531 ‐ His mom told him, "Someday you’re gonna be great, Dino." 220 00:11:39,232 --> 00:11:42,602 ‐ He did not know how to speak English 221 00:11:42,602 --> 00:11:44,637 until he was six years old. 222 00:11:44,637 --> 00:11:47,197 He was what a lot of immigrants were called 223 00:11:47,207 --> 00:11:48,817 which was an "analfabeto"... 224 00:11:50,577 --> 00:11:52,017 ...which meant you’re illiterate. 225 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:55,580 And the kids made fun of him. 226 00:11:58,151 --> 00:12:00,281 ‐ You’re growing up in the United States 227 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:04,524 and you spoke Italian for the formative years of your life, 228 00:12:04,524 --> 00:12:07,524 coming to English as a second language. 229 00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:11,898 And you’ve experienced firsthand being ostracized 230 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:14,728 for who you are, for your native language, 231 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:16,834 for your ethnicity and so forth. 232 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:19,876 ‐ He realized school wasn’t gonna be for him. 233 00:12:22,508 --> 00:12:24,268 ‐ My father tried the coal mine, 234 00:12:24,277 --> 00:12:26,647 he said that’s horrible, hard, hard work. 235 00:12:27,947 --> 00:12:31,517 He was a dealer in Rex’s cigar store. 236 00:12:31,517 --> 00:12:34,687 (music) 237 00:12:34,687 --> 00:12:36,887 ‐ They had craps in there, they had 21, 238 00:12:36,889 --> 00:12:38,789 but he was all around in there. 239 00:12:38,791 --> 00:12:39,791 ‐ That’s the hustle. 240 00:12:41,527 --> 00:12:43,787 ‐ "When anyone complained that acting was hard work 241 00:12:43,796 --> 00:12:46,966 Dino responded as Crocetti, the barber’s son. 242 00:12:48,835 --> 00:12:50,703 "You think acting’s work? 243 00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:53,803 Try standing on your feet 12 hours a day dealing blackjack." 244 00:12:55,642 --> 00:12:58,511 ‐ Like a lot of kids that were bullied he went into boxing. 245 00:12:58,511 --> 00:13:00,511 (bell ring) 246 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:02,682 ‐ [Joe] He was an amateur boxer. 247 00:13:02,682 --> 00:13:05,118 They called him "Punchy" but I didn’t like that. 248 00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:06,848 He’d fight anybody, he didn’t care. 249 00:13:08,187 --> 00:13:10,787 ‐ Boxing was a way for a poor kid to make money. 250 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:13,920 Irish kids, Italian kids, Jewish kids, 251 00:13:13,926 --> 00:13:16,829 and of course black kids and Latino kids. 252 00:13:16,829 --> 00:13:20,229 All the outcasts of America went into boxing. 253 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,768 (music) 254 00:13:21,768 --> 00:13:24,937 Dean Martin coming out of an Italian‐American background, 255 00:13:24,937 --> 00:13:26,467 there are not too many ways out. 256 00:13:26,472 --> 00:13:29,909 If you became a big time boxer you yourself was a celebrity. 257 00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:31,139 Jack Dempsey, 258 00:13:31,144 --> 00:13:32,344 Gene Tunney, 259 00:13:32,345 --> 00:13:34,245 these people were celebrities. 260 00:13:34,247 --> 00:13:38,318 ‐ There’s a total relation between boxing and performance. 261 00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:39,918 The best boxers know that. 262 00:13:41,487 --> 00:13:46,457 Sugar Ray Robinson, he understood the showmanship of boxing. 263 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:51,130 You have to be an artist, as well as a fighter. 264 00:13:51,130 --> 00:13:52,860 It’s not surprising that Dean Martin 265 00:13:52,865 --> 00:13:55,935 would be able to do that because he’s an artist. 266 00:13:55,935 --> 00:13:57,735 ‐ He thought that he might have a career in boxing, 267 00:13:57,737 --> 00:13:59,305 but then he had his nose broke, 268 00:13:59,305 --> 00:14:01,874 he decided that that isn’t what he wanted to do. 269 00:14:01,874 --> 00:14:05,644 ♪ Which way did my heart go? 270 00:14:08,314 --> 00:14:10,550 ‐ [Harry] I do remember his voice. 271 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:13,580 I remarked at the time I said this guy can really sing. 272 00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:16,622 ‐ [Virginia] He was absolutely spectacular 273 00:14:16,622 --> 00:14:19,462 when he sang with that perfect rhythm. 274 00:14:20,526 --> 00:14:22,496 ‐ He would sing anywhere that he could. 275 00:14:23,696 --> 00:14:25,832 ‐ [Mindy] When he was working at the casino 276 00:14:25,832 --> 00:14:28,101 I would pick him up at two or three in the morning 277 00:14:28,101 --> 00:14:29,301 when they got through 278 00:14:29,302 --> 00:14:31,637 and there’d be three or four guys in the car 279 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:32,867 and we’d just cruise around 280 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:35,441 and he would sing to us all night. 281 00:14:35,441 --> 00:14:38,711 (upbeat music) 282 00:14:38,711 --> 00:14:40,480 ‐ We’re talking about the swing era. 283 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,950 America was all about bands. 284 00:14:47,153 --> 00:14:49,589 ‐ [Harry] There were all kinds of clubs at the place. 285 00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:53,259 He would come in maybe two or three nights a week. 286 00:14:53,259 --> 00:14:55,428 ‐ When you come from a world of nightclub, 287 00:14:55,428 --> 00:14:58,658 you’re dealing with an audience, one on one. 288 00:14:58,664 --> 00:15:00,764 You know when you’re not cooking, 289 00:15:00,767 --> 00:15:03,102 you know when you’re not clocking. 290 00:15:03,102 --> 00:15:04,332 ‐ [Harry] He got to the point 291 00:15:04,337 --> 00:15:06,139 where it was as though he owned the place. 292 00:15:06,139 --> 00:15:09,239 He would grab the microphone and start singing, 293 00:15:09,242 --> 00:15:10,972 no accompaniments. 294 00:15:10,977 --> 00:15:13,413 ‐ Martin was influenced by Crosby. 295 00:15:13,413 --> 00:15:16,449 ♪ I give to you 296 00:15:16,449 --> 00:15:19,079 ♪ and you give to me 297 00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:21,854 But he really liked the source of Crosby, 298 00:15:21,854 --> 00:15:23,389 which was the Mills Brothers. 299 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:25,258 ‐ Dean loved the Mills Brothers. 300 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:27,488 ‐ They had this beautiful harmony 301 00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:30,663 and sound. Mellifluous and flowing. 302 00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:32,331 ‐ Oh, I sure love how you guys sing 303 00:15:32,331 --> 00:15:35,031 and I got every one of your records and albums. 304 00:15:35,034 --> 00:15:35,868 ‐ Every one of them? 305 00:15:35,868 --> 00:15:36,798 ‐ Every one of ’em. 306 00:15:36,803 --> 00:15:38,303 ‐ Harry Mills, the lead singer, 307 00:15:38,304 --> 00:15:40,339 had a coolness about him that Dean wanted to copy. 308 00:15:40,339 --> 00:15:43,309 ‐ Harry Mills had a wonderful style, great rhythm, 309 00:15:43,309 --> 00:15:46,039 like Dean sang a little bit behind the beat. 310 00:15:46,045 --> 00:15:50,783 ♪ Up a lazy river by the old mill run ♪ 311 00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:55,693 ♪ The lazy, lazy river in the noon day sun ♪ 312 00:15:56,889 --> 00:16:00,689 ♪ Linger in the shade of a kind old tree ♪ 313 00:16:01,594 --> 00:16:02,894 ♪ Throw away your troubles 314 00:16:02,895 --> 00:16:05,265 ♪ Dream a dream with me 315 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:07,662 ‐ You don’t have to fit in the frame and the measure, 316 00:16:07,667 --> 00:16:09,235 you could be before the measure, 317 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:10,870 come in the middle of the measure, 318 00:16:10,870 --> 00:16:15,640 but as long as you find that location of exit, 319 00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:16,809 it’ll make sense. 320 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:19,339 ♪ Oh, everyone’s in love. 321 00:16:20,780 --> 00:16:23,880 ‐ Dean Martin picked up from them how to present a song 322 00:16:23,883 --> 00:16:26,783 in a way where you seem cool and detached, 323 00:16:26,786 --> 00:16:29,355 but at the same time you’re in control of the thing. 324 00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:34,365 (singing) 325 00:16:35,094 --> 00:16:36,464 ‐ The Mills Brothers! 326 00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:41,000 (music) 327 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,870 ‐ Dean is singing in a hotel club room 328 00:16:44,871 --> 00:16:47,771 and in walks Betty MacDonald, 329 00:16:47,773 --> 00:16:50,673 attracted by the sound of Dean’s voice. 330 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:54,786 And she has just dropped out at Swarthmore. 331 00:16:56,148 --> 00:16:59,378 Dean saw somebody he could have a family with. 332 00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:01,854 ‐ Elizabeth McDonald, that was my mom. 333 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:06,259 She was so caring and so smart. 334 00:17:06,259 --> 00:17:10,229 ‐ Before two families melded together 335 00:17:10,229 --> 00:17:13,199 I remember going to Dean’s parents’ house 336 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:17,029 seeing broomsticks laid out across chairs 337 00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:20,676 with pasta hanging down, they were making their own pasta. 338 00:17:22,141 --> 00:17:25,578 ‐ My mother helped Dad in so many ways, helped mold him. 339 00:17:25,578 --> 00:17:27,978 Not that my grandmother didn’t teach him manners, 340 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:29,649 but there was something a little more elegant 341 00:17:29,649 --> 00:17:31,179 about my mother. 342 00:17:31,183 --> 00:17:35,021 ‐ Betty would walk around, beating a spoon on a plate 343 00:17:35,021 --> 00:17:37,690 and going, "You don’t go down to the soup, 344 00:17:37,690 --> 00:17:39,760 the soup comes up to you." 345 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:44,257 Betty believed in his talent. 346 00:17:44,263 --> 00:17:46,799 I think he found it himself. 347 00:17:46,799 --> 00:17:49,599 She always built him up. "You can do it." 348 00:17:49,602 --> 00:17:51,802 He didn’t speak well. "Dems and dose." 349 00:17:51,804 --> 00:17:55,074 And my mother of course, very educated, she would say no, 350 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:57,043 it’s "them" or "those." 351 00:17:57,043 --> 00:18:00,179 And my father he ended up‐ he speaks very, very well, 352 00:18:00,179 --> 00:18:01,979 but that was because of my mother. 353 00:18:01,981 --> 00:18:05,718 She was a doer, she would get things done. 354 00:18:05,718 --> 00:18:09,448 ‐ Betty thought that Dean should have his nose fixed. 355 00:18:09,455 --> 00:18:12,124 ‐ He was very reluctant to have it done 356 00:18:12,124 --> 00:18:13,824 and Betty talked him into it. 357 00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:18,698 ‐ [Interviewer] What was his career like 358 00:18:18,698 --> 00:18:20,028 in those first few years? 359 00:18:20,032 --> 00:18:22,932 ‐ Oh, Lord... 360 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:24,235 Very sketchy. 361 00:18:25,738 --> 00:18:27,938 ‐ [Anne] They wired my father for money 362 00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:30,109 and he never turned them down. 363 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:31,577 ‐ He was working regional nightclubs. 364 00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:33,737 You’re playing these toilets, as they called them. 365 00:18:33,746 --> 00:18:37,783 These were the marginal dregs of show business. 366 00:18:37,783 --> 00:18:39,352 ‐ [Deana] He would go on the road 367 00:18:39,352 --> 00:18:41,621 and my mother went with him. 368 00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:44,221 ‐ They would do those one nighters on buses. 369 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:48,394 ‐ They had their first baby, when Craig was born, 370 00:18:48,394 --> 00:18:50,794 they put him in a drawer in a hotel room, 371 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:53,199 that would be the crib. 372 00:18:53,199 --> 00:18:55,829 ‐ It seemed like every third person that came along 373 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:57,503 would offer to become his agent 374 00:18:57,503 --> 00:18:59,538 and he would sell him a piece of himself. 375 00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:02,638 He had sold something like 115% of himself. 376 00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:04,410 He just wanted to get out and sing 377 00:19:04,410 --> 00:19:06,078 and that was all that mattered to him. 378 00:19:06,078 --> 00:19:09,108 ‐ There is another element of cool, which is luck. 379 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:12,718 And that‐ that indicates to people 380 00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:15,188 that even God thinks you’re cool. 381 00:19:16,322 --> 00:19:17,490 ‐ [Interviewer] Dean, what do you regard 382 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:19,590 as the biggest break of your life? 383 00:19:19,592 --> 00:19:21,192 ‐ I think the biggest 384 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:23,529 and the most wonderful break in my life 385 00:19:23,529 --> 00:19:25,459 was meeting Jerry, Jerry Lewis. 386 00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:30,302 ‐ Suddenly here is something new, 387 00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:31,971 new enough that nobody really understood 388 00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:33,639 what was happening right at the beginning. 389 00:19:33,639 --> 00:19:36,208 (upbeat music) 390 00:19:36,208 --> 00:19:39,608 Suddenly these two shlubs from nowhere 391 00:19:39,612 --> 00:19:41,952 do the biggest thing in show business. 392 00:19:43,783 --> 00:19:45,983 ‐ Martin and Lewis were huge. 393 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,689 ‐ [George] You couldn’t get near them, 394 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,659 they sold tables all the way up to the band stamp. 395 00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:57,359 ‐ What they were doing in nightclubs was totally wild. 396 00:19:57,363 --> 00:19:58,597 ‐ I don’t know the number. 397 00:19:58,597 --> 00:20:00,097 (audience laughs) 398 00:20:00,099 --> 00:20:01,967 They just had something no one else had had before. 399 00:20:01,967 --> 00:20:03,497 ‐ You better lock up when you’re through. 400 00:20:03,502 --> 00:20:05,742 ‐ They did things that most people didn’t do. 401 00:20:07,306 --> 00:20:09,675 ‐ Well, that was a collision. 402 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,011 (laughs) 403 00:20:12,011 --> 00:20:14,041 ‐ It was sort of like proto‐punk rock. 404 00:20:16,782 --> 00:20:18,482 ‐ They represented a really good time. 405 00:20:18,484 --> 00:20:21,153 ‐ [Bill] They were... pure and simple funny. 406 00:20:21,153 --> 00:20:24,253 (instrumental music) 407 00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:26,892 (audience laughs) 408 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,360 ‐ I just loved it. 409 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,230 ‐ They were crazy, they were all over the room. 410 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,498 Anything goes, 411 00:20:32,498 --> 00:20:34,498 and we can say whatever we feel like. 412 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:36,530 ‐ Together they were just terrific. 413 00:20:37,737 --> 00:20:40,005 Here’s a picture of Dean and Jerry. 414 00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:41,841 They were great, no doubt about it. 415 00:20:41,841 --> 00:20:43,008 I loved them both. 416 00:20:43,008 --> 00:20:44,568 I thought well, gee, 417 00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:46,812 that would be nice to have Regis and Dean together. 418 00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,012 Don’t you think? 419 00:20:48,013 --> 00:20:50,983 Look a little bit alike...not even close. 420 00:20:50,983 --> 00:20:53,853 ‐ Dean and Jerry, they got together kind of by accident 421 00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:57,953 in Atlantic City at Skinny D’Amato’s 500 Club. 422 00:20:57,957 --> 00:20:59,525 It was meant to be. 423 00:20:59,525 --> 00:21:01,827 (music) 424 00:21:01,827 --> 00:21:06,427 ‐ Their fame and infamy came from the nightclub stage. 425 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:09,930 Jerry Lewis was doing what they called a record act. 426 00:21:09,935 --> 00:21:11,737 It would be perfect for TikTok. 427 00:21:11,737 --> 00:21:13,167 He wouldn’t talk, 428 00:21:13,172 --> 00:21:14,502 the record would be playing and he’d be going‐ 429 00:21:14,507 --> 00:21:19,478 (miming singing) 430 00:21:19,478 --> 00:21:24,478 ‐ From the moment Jerry set eyes on Dean Martin 431 00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:27,384 he was riveted. 432 00:21:27,386 --> 00:21:31,657 ‐ [Jerry] I was 19 when we teamed up, he was 29. 433 00:21:31,657 --> 00:21:32,917 You know when you meet somebody 434 00:21:32,925 --> 00:21:34,960 and you just like them immediately, 435 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,490 that’s what happened. 436 00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:39,165 ‐ When you performed at a nightclub you were thrown 437 00:21:39,165 --> 00:21:41,500 on the same bill with a bunch of other performers. 438 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,930 It would be an acrobat, followed by a singer, 439 00:21:43,936 --> 00:21:45,604 followed by a comedian. 440 00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:47,373 Dean and Jerry started to cross paths. 441 00:21:47,373 --> 00:21:49,008 (music) 442 00:21:49,008 --> 00:21:51,568 Jerry would sometimes intentionally sabotage 443 00:21:51,577 --> 00:21:52,845 Dean’s act a little bit, 444 00:21:52,845 --> 00:21:54,745 give him a little bit of a heckle. 445 00:21:54,747 --> 00:21:59,787 (singing) 446 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,688 ‐ [Jerry] And he started the first few notes, 447 00:22:02,688 --> 00:22:04,118 and I bang on the table‐ 448 00:22:04,123 --> 00:22:06,693 "Waiter, where’s my steak for Christ’s sakes!" 449 00:22:08,194 --> 00:22:11,194 ‐ And the whole thing starts right there. 450 00:22:11,197 --> 00:22:14,099 The audience instantly senses 451 00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:16,068 that something completely different, 452 00:22:16,068 --> 00:22:18,968 completely brand new has begun. 453 00:22:18,971 --> 00:22:21,571 (music) 454 00:22:24,410 --> 00:22:27,240 ‐ Another element of Dean’s cool was spontaneity. 455 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,110 ‐ They did a good job fixing your nose. 456 00:22:31,116 --> 00:22:33,953 ‐ Yeah, used to be over here. 457 00:22:33,953 --> 00:22:36,153 ‐ Jerry got goosebumps. 458 00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:39,024 Every comedian Jerry Lewis had ever seen 459 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:42,528 would have these little pauses... 460 00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:44,388 ...with Dean, nothing. 461 00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:46,065 It was instantaneous. 462 00:22:46,065 --> 00:22:48,135 (audience laughs) 463 00:22:49,168 --> 00:22:50,728 ‐ Dean was in tune. 464 00:22:50,736 --> 00:22:53,276 So if Jerry comes in and he throws something at Dean... 465 00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:59,311 ‐ Are you sure you got the right head 466 00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:00,481 back from the cleaners? 467 00:23:01,614 --> 00:23:03,349 ‐ (RZA) Bang, nothing. Bong, right there. 468 00:23:03,349 --> 00:23:05,179 ‐ Give and take. 469 00:23:05,184 --> 00:23:07,152 I mean they were just naturals together. 470 00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:08,520 ‐ Oh Dean. 471 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,820 ‐ What? What is it? What is it? 472 00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:11,252 ‐ I’m eating ham. 473 00:23:11,257 --> 00:23:13,192 (audience laughing) 474 00:23:13,192 --> 00:23:16,332 ‐ [Jerry] His reflexes, instinct, rhythm... 475 00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:21,700 Dean used a force that was within him 476 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:23,869 that he didn’t know he had. 477 00:23:23,869 --> 00:23:26,599 ‐ You would say, "I’m going to the corner," 478 00:23:26,605 --> 00:23:28,574 not, "I’m going to the corner." 479 00:23:28,574 --> 00:23:29,574 (audience laughs) 480 00:23:29,575 --> 00:23:31,245 Who talks like this? 481 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:34,211 ‐ The rudiment of the act is this: 482 00:23:35,948 --> 00:23:37,748 Dean is the Playboy. 483 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,480 And Jerry is the Putz. 484 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,220 (machine dinging) 485 00:23:44,223 --> 00:23:47,793 (audience laughing) 486 00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:51,835 Here is this kid 487 00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:59,367 allowing Dean to come out of himself a little bit. 488 00:24:00,673 --> 00:24:02,241 (audience laughing) 489 00:24:02,241 --> 00:24:06,578 To be less guarded, to be less self‐protective, 490 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:09,008 to be, yes, a little more vulnerable. 491 00:24:11,984 --> 00:24:14,353 ‐ Lewis was funny, but let’s face facts 492 00:24:14,353 --> 00:24:15,587 if you had Lewis in your ear, 493 00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,187 you’d want to go out in the parking lot 494 00:24:17,189 --> 00:24:20,559 and smash your head in the door of your car. 495 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:25,329 (singing badly) 496 00:24:28,067 --> 00:24:29,668 (laughs) 497 00:24:29,668 --> 00:24:30,828 ‐ I’ll never forget. 498 00:24:32,438 --> 00:24:34,538 Dean brought him to the house, 499 00:24:35,908 --> 00:24:39,138 for the first time in my life I saw a hyperactive kid. 500 00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:43,582 He jumped on the furniture, he acted like a maniac. 501 00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:45,552 This guy was out of control. 502 00:24:46,852 --> 00:24:48,952 ‐ Looks like I got myself a kid. 503 00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:50,522 ‐ Yeah, yes Dad. 504 00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:53,292 ‐ And we’re gonna be... pals, right? 505 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,829 ‐ Lewis always needed to be paired with somebody 506 00:24:56,829 --> 00:24:59,829 to dilute that manic, high energy, 507 00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:01,967 very twitchy kind of thing. 508 00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:06,897 (singing) 509 00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:09,408 (orchestra playing) 510 00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:10,638 (audience laughing) 511 00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:13,979 ‐ Straight man is highly prized in the industry 512 00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:15,449 because it’s so hard to do. 513 00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:19,479 (audience laughing) 514 00:25:19,485 --> 00:25:21,085 ‐ Dean was subtler. 515 00:25:21,086 --> 00:25:22,654 You would be laughing your head off, 516 00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:24,623 but you didn’t know why. 517 00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:28,827 (audience laughing) 518 00:25:28,827 --> 00:25:32,727 ‐ Dean’s comedic timing was as good as my father’s. 519 00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:35,000 ‐ You sure read a lot, don’t you? 520 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,500 ‐ Oh no, sir. 521 00:25:36,502 --> 00:25:37,970 I just use these to build tunnels for my electric tr... 522 00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:38,900 ‐ Get away from me! 523 00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:40,404 (audience laughs) 524 00:25:40,406 --> 00:25:44,610 And that’s what lent such great depth to the team. 525 00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:46,010 ‐ Orson said, "You know Jerry Lewis 526 00:25:46,011 --> 00:25:47,211 is not about Jerry Lewis," 527 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:48,412 and I said, "What do you mean?" 528 00:25:48,414 --> 00:25:50,682 He said, "It’s about Dean Martin." 529 00:25:50,682 --> 00:25:51,682 And I said, "What?" 530 00:25:51,683 --> 00:25:54,783 He said, "Jerry Lewis’ success 531 00:25:54,787 --> 00:25:56,355 and what makes that so special 532 00:25:56,355 --> 00:26:01,365 is the incredible straight comedy and timing of Dean 533 00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:04,728 and the fact that he can maintain the level 534 00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:06,498 so that Jerry can play off of it 535 00:26:06,498 --> 00:26:08,428 and on it and go around it, 536 00:26:08,434 --> 00:26:12,004 and it’s a consistent line that is held for the audience." 537 00:26:12,004 --> 00:26:14,804 He said, "Dean is the genius behind that show." 538 00:26:14,807 --> 00:26:17,509 (upbeat music) 539 00:26:17,509 --> 00:26:20,079 ‐ [Kaplan] Sinatra came to see them at the Copacabana. 540 00:26:21,647 --> 00:26:24,149 Sinatra was huge in 1943. 541 00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:27,119 ♪ Oh lonely night 542 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,719 ‐ And he did that little croon. 543 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,090 And that’s when all the girls would start screaming 544 00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:32,290 and fainting. 545 00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:35,591 ‐ Sinatra was a great friend to people, 546 00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:38,931 and he understood a lot of times what people needed. 547 00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:42,101 ‐ Sinatra stands up to the huge applause 548 00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:45,501 and gives them the ultimate endorsement. 549 00:26:45,504 --> 00:26:48,740 These guys are on a trip to the galaxies. 550 00:26:48,740 --> 00:26:52,210 Nobody here really understands how big they’re gonna be. 551 00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:54,081 ‐ From there they just sprung. 552 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:01,553 ‐ And suddenly these two kids, 553 00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:03,653 they were the toast of New York City. 554 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:05,425 And now they’re the toast of Hollywood. 555 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,635 And they signed this big contract with Paramount. 556 00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:14,063 ‐ They were a hit in their very first movie, a big hit. 557 00:27:16,668 --> 00:27:20,068 ‐ The first time I saw them was their first feature. 558 00:27:20,072 --> 00:27:22,307 ‐ Am I wrong, were they squeezing lemons? 559 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:23,237 ‐ Nice to know you. 560 00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:26,411 ‐ See how embarrassing it gets? 561 00:27:26,411 --> 00:27:29,111 ‐ I became an abject fan of Martin and Lewis. 562 00:27:29,114 --> 00:27:30,254 Absolutely loved them. 563 00:27:31,183 --> 00:27:33,218 ‐ Like 16 movies in a row. 564 00:27:33,218 --> 00:27:35,587 It was just an incredible money machine. 565 00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:37,747 ‐ Those movies were huge, they were huge. 566 00:27:37,756 --> 00:27:39,324 Monster hit comedies. 567 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,994 ‐ I feel much better now, thank you very much. 568 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:44,663 Oh! Oh! I’m leaking! 569 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,803 ‐ My favorite would have to be "The Caddy." 570 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:51,167 ♪ When the moon hits your eye 571 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:54,800 ♪ Like a big pizza pie, that’s amore ♪ 572 00:27:54,806 --> 00:27:56,942 ‐ People loved "That’s Amore." 573 00:27:56,942 --> 00:27:58,842 ♪ When the world seems to shine ♪ 574 00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:02,214 ♪ Like you’ve had too much wine, that’s amore ♪ 575 00:28:02,214 --> 00:28:05,551 ‐ Everybody applauded, that’s very unusual 576 00:28:05,551 --> 00:28:07,419 in those days in movie theaters. 577 00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:10,189 ‐ They did the movies, they were doing television. 578 00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:11,749 Like it was nonstop. 579 00:28:11,757 --> 00:28:13,258 ‐ Hello friends. 580 00:28:13,258 --> 00:28:18,258 ‐ TV made them hot in a way nothing had made them before. 581 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:22,131 ‐ Television is this brand new phenomenon. 582 00:28:22,134 --> 00:28:25,604 Most of what was on TV was stodgy and it was boring. 583 00:28:25,604 --> 00:28:28,004 People watched it because it was a novelty, 584 00:28:28,006 --> 00:28:30,142 not necessarily because it was good. 585 00:28:30,142 --> 00:28:31,542 But Martin and Lewis came on TV 586 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,779 and they did something just for TV. 587 00:28:33,779 --> 00:28:35,747 ‐ [Announcer] "The Colgate Comedy Hour" 588 00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:37,947 starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. 589 00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:39,750 ‐ Jerry went right up to the lens, 590 00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:41,381 he slapped the cameraman. 591 00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,654 ‐ See when I walk close 592 00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:44,423 you gotta focus all over and everything. 593 00:28:44,423 --> 00:28:46,823 Am I giving you trouble now? 594 00:28:46,825 --> 00:28:48,125 ‐ That was new, that was exciting. 595 00:28:48,126 --> 00:28:50,596 ‐ Oh if I only knew the line. What is it? 596 00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:52,097 ‐ They broke the presenium. 597 00:28:52,097 --> 00:28:54,327 ‐ Oh yeah, you clean up here! 598 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:56,733 ‐ It’s wonderful, it’s fresh. 599 00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:58,770 ‐ After the burglar bit, shame on me. 600 00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:01,100 (audience laughing) 601 00:29:01,106 --> 00:29:04,643 ‐ "Colgate Comedy Hour" one of the best shows 602 00:29:04,643 --> 00:29:07,813 in the beginning years of television. 603 00:29:07,813 --> 00:29:08,643 ‐ Hey man! 604 00:29:09,648 --> 00:29:10,608 ‐ What is it? 605 00:29:10,616 --> 00:29:11,850 ‐ Get outta here. 606 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:13,950 ‐ Ed Simmons was my writing partner 607 00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:15,992 when we did the Martin and Lewis show. 608 00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:22,527 It didn’t take long working with them 609 00:29:22,527 --> 00:29:25,187 to understand that Dean was as much the reason 610 00:29:25,197 --> 00:29:28,834 for the success of the team as Jerry was. 611 00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:30,369 ‐ Where are you? 612 00:29:30,369 --> 00:29:33,499 Oh, right now we’d like to give you some impressions. 613 00:29:33,505 --> 00:29:37,175 First, Jerry. My friend Jerry. 614 00:29:37,175 --> 00:29:38,475 ‐ Thanks a lot you’re my boy. 615 00:29:38,477 --> 00:29:39,745 ‐ Good. 616 00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:41,380 ‐ They were so funny and they also seemed 617 00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:44,210 to really like each other, love each other. 618 00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:45,416 That came across. 619 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:52,489 ‐ Jerry Lewis was a very, very lonely, sad kid. 620 00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:56,128 He was an only child. 621 00:29:56,128 --> 00:30:00,158 ‐ His parents did not go to his bar mitzvah. 622 00:30:00,165 --> 00:30:02,134 As sad moments of childhood go, 623 00:30:02,134 --> 00:30:04,074 I would say that’s pretty good. 624 00:30:07,406 --> 00:30:10,546 ‐ [James] Jerry had this fantasy 625 00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:15,710 that this guy was the big brother that he never had. 626 00:30:18,283 --> 00:30:20,683 ‐ [Jerry] He was like a brother, a father, a friend, 627 00:30:22,087 --> 00:30:24,627 all of the best things a man could have in his life. 628 00:30:28,794 --> 00:30:30,762 ‐ You felt that they liked each other and they were friends 629 00:30:30,762 --> 00:30:34,232 and you could see Jerry breaking Dean up. 630 00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:35,132 ‐ I bet you won’t know this‐ 631 00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:36,333 (mumbles) 632 00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,235 I ad‐libbed, I don’t know where I‐ 633 00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:38,070 ‐ I know. 634 00:30:38,070 --> 00:30:38,870 (audience laughs) 635 00:30:40,272 --> 00:30:41,342 ‐ I love that stuff. 636 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:45,342 Obvious affection. 637 00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:48,854 If you could bottle that you could have peace in the world. 638 00:30:52,484 --> 00:30:54,753 ‐ He filled a space in my dad’s life 639 00:30:54,753 --> 00:30:56,822 that could never have been replicated 640 00:30:56,822 --> 00:31:00,122 by my dad’s wives or anyone. 641 00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:05,997 ‐ Jerry was the one for the two of them 642 00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:10,167 who was the producer, the director, the head writer, 643 00:31:10,168 --> 00:31:12,898 and that was fun at the very beginning. 644 00:31:12,904 --> 00:31:17,914 Jerry Lewis eventually became the Pope and knew everything. 645 00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:20,838 ‐ Why are we always doing things that aren’t right? 646 00:31:20,846 --> 00:31:21,780 ‐ We’re on. We’re on. 647 00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:23,080 ‐ Here’s one of our technicians. 648 00:31:25,016 --> 00:31:27,185 ‐ Dean didn’t compete with Jerry 649 00:31:27,185 --> 00:31:31,395 and Jerry found it necessary sometimes to compete with Dean. 650 00:31:32,758 --> 00:31:35,628 There were days when Jerry wasn’t feeling well 651 00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:40,932 and they usually coincided with days when Dean came in 652 00:31:40,932 --> 00:31:44,032 and was hilariously funny 653 00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:48,775 and Jerry would be curled up in the corner in a ball 654 00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:52,171 complaining of a bad stomach. 655 00:31:53,111 --> 00:31:56,651 (jazz music) 656 00:31:59,117 --> 00:32:03,017 ‐ We moved to LA in ’49 right when I was born. 657 00:32:04,890 --> 00:32:07,559 My dad bought my grandfather his home 658 00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:09,089 in Inglewood, California. 659 00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:11,394 He and my grandmother went to live in LA. 660 00:32:12,297 --> 00:32:13,857 ‐ It’s the American dream 661 00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:17,305 "Oh, I can make enough money to buy a home for my parents." 662 00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:20,304 ‐ [Deana] They were always around. 663 00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:22,575 Of course we’d go over to their house for dinner. 664 00:32:23,975 --> 00:32:26,885 My grandmother Angela would make fabulous food. 665 00:32:28,180 --> 00:32:29,550 Unbelievable memories. 666 00:32:31,216 --> 00:32:33,556 Then things started to change. 667 00:32:36,254 --> 00:32:39,958 My mother Betty was very, very unhappy. 668 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,458 It was very, very hard for her. 669 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,760 Four kids, a dad on the road all the time. 670 00:32:44,763 --> 00:32:46,703 She started to drink more. 671 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:49,730 That was hard for Dad. 672 00:32:53,772 --> 00:32:57,472 ‐ Dean and Jerry had gone down to Florida for some benefit 673 00:32:57,476 --> 00:32:58,876 and that’s where he met her. 674 00:33:00,912 --> 00:33:05,882 ‐ Jeanne Biegger was the Queen of the Orange Bowl. 675 00:33:05,884 --> 00:33:08,324 Dean would confide in Jerry. 676 00:33:10,055 --> 00:33:12,624 ‐ [Jerry] I saw him go nuts a couple of times. 677 00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:15,193 "I can’t spend my life with her and the children. 678 00:33:15,193 --> 00:33:17,063 It’s all wrong, it’s just wrong." 679 00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:20,499 I said, "Who the fuck is telling you you have to?" 680 00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,129 He said, "We’re married, she’s Catholic, I’m Catholic." 681 00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:23,203 I said, "Fuck Catholics. 682 00:33:24,369 --> 00:33:25,629 You have a life to lead, 683 00:33:25,637 --> 00:33:27,806 you’ve got the pink slip on your life." 684 00:33:27,806 --> 00:33:31,810 ‐ Jerry’s wife Patti tried to warn Betty. She said, 685 00:33:31,810 --> 00:33:35,750 "This one is not going away." 686 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:38,985 ‐ [James] From that moment, 687 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:44,626 Dean’s marriage to Betty is history. 688 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:52,160 ‐ When they divorced, it broke all our hearts. 689 00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:56,902 He’d been like a big brother since I was five years old. 690 00:33:56,902 --> 00:33:58,202 He was part of the family. 691 00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:04,374 ‐ We moved to Hollywood. 692 00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:08,780 My dad and Jeanne had a house just down the street from us 693 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:09,980 and Dad would come over. 694 00:34:11,149 --> 00:34:12,679 We would always have a great Christmas 695 00:34:12,684 --> 00:34:16,087 and Dad would come over and bring presents to us. 696 00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:18,487 This is so sad for me, I don’t even... 697 00:34:20,592 --> 00:34:22,592 Jeanne knew that I was not doing well. 698 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:27,865 In order to make me feel more welcome into the family 699 00:34:27,866 --> 00:34:29,834 she took me to Capitol Records 700 00:34:29,834 --> 00:34:32,404 when Dad was recording "Memories are Made of This." 701 00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:36,041 ♪ Take one fresh and tender kiss ♪ 702 00:34:36,041 --> 00:34:38,771 I remember walking down the hallway with Jeanne 703 00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:39,844 holding my hand. 704 00:34:39,844 --> 00:34:43,714 ♪ Add one stolen night of bliss ♪ 705 00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:46,685 We walk into Studio A and I see all the musicians. 706 00:34:46,685 --> 00:34:51,055 I’m just little, and I sit on a chair and I hear Dad 707 00:34:51,056 --> 00:34:55,160 he made a joke and everybody laughed. I thought, "Aw," 708 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,760 and I put my arm around her‐ I put my arm around Jeanne‐ 709 00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:00,863 and she said, "Everything’s gonna be all right." 710 00:35:00,865 --> 00:35:03,802 That memory of sitting there and I thought, "Huh, 711 00:35:03,802 --> 00:35:06,302 everything’s gonna be alright." 712 00:35:06,304 --> 00:35:07,973 And it wasn’t until I was nine years old 713 00:35:07,973 --> 00:35:09,773 that we went to live with my father. 714 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:15,814 My mom’s drinking was something that would eventually 715 00:35:15,814 --> 00:35:18,650 catch up with her, until she finally decided 716 00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:20,318 she just couldn’t take care of us anymore 717 00:35:20,318 --> 00:35:21,948 the way we should be. 718 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:24,823 By that time, they had their own family, 719 00:35:24,823 --> 00:35:26,493 they had their own kids. 720 00:35:30,095 --> 00:35:33,365 ‐ [Jeanne] I have never known such bliss as it was 721 00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:36,629 when I was pregnant with my three children. 722 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:41,973 ‐ Jeanne was a hands‐on mother. 723 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,173 I mean, she had seven kids to raise. 724 00:35:46,111 --> 00:35:48,980 She was just a beautiful woman, oh my gosh. 725 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:51,310 ‐ Jeanne was kind of like my mom, 726 00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:55,153 she made sure the house was running very normal, 727 00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:57,022 to have regular dinners and make sure, 728 00:35:57,022 --> 00:35:58,422 "Did you do your homework?" 729 00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:01,687 These sort of Norman Rockwell scenes, 730 00:36:01,693 --> 00:36:03,228 but they grew up with it, 731 00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:05,528 okay, so they were trying to make sure we had that. 732 00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:07,160 And it was given to us. 733 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,201 ‐ Looking at that footage of him playing in the pool, 734 00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:13,338 interacting with his kids, I was jealous. 735 00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:17,938 He was a very... a much more available father than mine was. 736 00:36:20,979 --> 00:36:22,849 His kids just adored him. 737 00:36:29,421 --> 00:36:30,451 ‐ Are you on? 738 00:36:30,455 --> 00:36:31,322 I’m on. 739 00:36:31,322 --> 00:36:33,322 (mumbles) 740 00:36:33,324 --> 00:36:35,694 ‐ Every Sunday night, my grandfather, 741 00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:38,363 he and my grandmother came to our house. 742 00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:40,799 ‐ Well Jerry, what else can I say? 743 00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:42,299 (laughs) 744 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:43,730 Happy birthday. 745 00:36:43,735 --> 00:36:45,235 Every time I see his splendor I forget myself. 746 00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:47,238 (laughs) 747 00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:50,508 ‐ Now when I was nine years old my grandmother Angela 748 00:36:50,508 --> 00:36:53,038 she taught me how to make pasta fazool, 749 00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:56,281 which is my dad’s favorite, favorite food. 750 00:36:56,281 --> 00:36:59,317 She said, "Now Deana, this is important for you to remember. 751 00:36:59,317 --> 00:37:01,717 You can’t write this recipe down. 752 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:05,150 You can’t tell anyone, don’t tell your sisters." 753 00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:07,959 So I stood there in her kitchen she had the big pot, 754 00:37:07,959 --> 00:37:11,529 just everything right in and you’d put Romano cheese on it, 755 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,799 not Parmesan ’cause Romano is just better. 756 00:37:14,666 --> 00:37:16,376 And then the secret ingredient. 757 00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:24,672 ‐ Perfect house, the perfect wife, the perfect family. 758 00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,215 It’s perfect. 759 00:37:30,949 --> 00:37:32,509 Except when it isn’t. 760 00:37:33,985 --> 00:37:35,255 ‐ Mr. Kelly, watch it! 761 00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:41,890 (jazz music) 762 00:37:41,893 --> 00:37:44,593 ‐ Something happens in the last two films 763 00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:48,399 that really does clear the way for Jerry Lewis 764 00:37:48,399 --> 00:37:51,569 to push the envelope pretty far. 765 00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:54,440 ‐ The two Frank Tashlin movies, 766 00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:58,643 it’s created by a master director. 767 00:37:58,643 --> 00:38:00,343 ‐ I’ll be right down, I got it. 768 00:38:02,747 --> 00:38:06,817 ‐ They bring a cartoon world into reality. 769 00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:10,788 ‐ Frank Tashlin storyboarded everything. 770 00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:14,519 Jerry Lewis literally sits at his feet 771 00:38:14,526 --> 00:38:17,695 and learns how do you compose your shots? 772 00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:21,365 What is the nature of a comic dynamic? 773 00:38:21,366 --> 00:38:22,901 How do you film it? 774 00:38:22,901 --> 00:38:24,331 How do you edit it? 775 00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:25,735 How do you time it? 776 00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:28,606 And he gets a masterclass from Tashlin. 777 00:38:28,606 --> 00:38:31,342 That’s the point at which Jerry Lewis says, 778 00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:34,242 "I think I can do everything on my own." 779 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:35,914 And he pushes it. 780 00:38:35,914 --> 00:38:37,448 ‐ Now why don’t you stop that. 781 00:38:37,448 --> 00:38:38,678 (mumbles) 782 00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:41,183 ‐ And Dean is more and more the accessory. 783 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,490 It just wore on Dean more and more. 784 00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:48,320 (audience laughs) 785 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,762 ‐ Dean wanted to get through a whole song 786 00:38:50,762 --> 00:38:53,598 without interruption and get the applause. 787 00:38:53,598 --> 00:38:57,268 But as the years went on, that happened less and less often. 788 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,739 (music) 789 00:39:04,742 --> 00:39:07,612 ‐ [Deana] Jerry had written "Delicate Delinquent." 790 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,447 ‐ And Dean was gonna play a cop. 791 00:39:11,449 --> 00:39:13,649 ‐ When Dad read the script he said, 792 00:39:13,651 --> 00:39:16,588 "I don’t wanna be a policeman in a uniform 793 00:39:16,588 --> 00:39:20,688 and I wanna come in before the second half of the movie," 794 00:39:20,692 --> 00:39:22,827 and Jerry said, "Well, that’s what the part is, 795 00:39:22,827 --> 00:39:25,787 that’s what the part calls for. Dad said, "You wrote it." 796 00:39:25,797 --> 00:39:26,664 ‐ What is this? 797 00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:28,099 ‐ Thank you very much. 798 00:39:28,099 --> 00:39:29,667 Now I would like to do a number that I have the pleasure. 799 00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,267 ‐ There was so much that Dean couldn’t do. 800 00:39:33,805 --> 00:39:36,075 His talent had reached a wall. 801 00:39:37,508 --> 00:39:40,678 ‐ [Angie] Jerry called the shots a few too many times. 802 00:39:40,678 --> 00:39:44,148 ‐ [Jerry] And I said this is gonna explode before too long. 803 00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:46,948 ‐ It was a very uncomfortable time. 804 00:39:46,951 --> 00:39:51,221 I didn’t wanna play sides, but it just amounted to that. 805 00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:53,722 (music) 806 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:55,895 It was a pretty open war. 807 00:39:58,696 --> 00:40:00,331 ‐ Dean says something to Jerry 808 00:40:00,331 --> 00:40:03,568 about what it is they even have together anymore 809 00:40:03,568 --> 00:40:05,668 and Jerry says, "Well I think it’s two men 810 00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:07,900 who feel a kind of love for each other." 811 00:40:07,906 --> 00:40:09,607 Dean looks at Jerry and he says, 812 00:40:09,607 --> 00:40:10,837 "When I look at you 813 00:40:10,842 --> 00:40:12,712 I see nothing but a fucking dollar sign." 814 00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:18,248 (suspensive music) 815 00:40:21,686 --> 00:40:23,154 ‐ It was on the front porch of our home 816 00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:26,791 reading in a paper, is Dean gonna be okay? 817 00:40:26,791 --> 00:40:28,491 What’s gonna happen to Dean? 818 00:40:28,493 --> 00:40:33,431 ‐ General public thought most of the talent was Jerry Lewis. 819 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,400 And Dean was very lucky. 820 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,270 ‐ Well, I thought Dean would have some problems. 821 00:40:40,605 --> 00:40:42,705 ‐ Dean had huge insecurity about being able to make it 822 00:40:42,707 --> 00:40:44,776 without Jerry and it was constantly reinforced 823 00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:46,611 by everybody in Hollywood. 824 00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:50,151 Without Jerry he was gonna fall on his ass. 825 00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,751 ‐ It was very important for Dean to do that picture 826 00:40:53,751 --> 00:40:56,851 and hopefully be successful, but unfortunately 827 00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:58,189 it turned out to be the opposite 828 00:40:58,189 --> 00:40:59,689 it wasn’t a success for Dean. 829 00:41:01,492 --> 00:41:04,532 ‐ Have you actually seen this movie? 830 00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:07,598 ‐ I don’t think so, I don’t think anybody did. 831 00:41:07,598 --> 00:41:09,028 ‐ It stinks. 832 00:41:09,033 --> 00:41:12,003 ‐ I made a mistake, everybody makes mistakes. 833 00:41:12,003 --> 00:41:14,703 ‐ It was an unlucky moment which was gonna be followed 834 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:16,246 by a great stroke of luck. 835 00:41:18,776 --> 00:41:21,479 ‐ He was rehabilitated by being cast 836 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:25,409 in a serious dramatic role that starred him 837 00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:28,686 with two of the most 838 00:41:28,686 --> 00:41:32,656 iconic, serious actors of the era. 839 00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:34,792 ‐ On one side of him is Marlon Brando, 840 00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:37,492 on another side of him is Montgomery Clift. 841 00:41:38,596 --> 00:41:42,100 They insisted on casting him, you know why? 842 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:44,569 Because Dean Martin was cool. 843 00:41:44,569 --> 00:41:47,999 ‐ Not every actor would dare to step up 844 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:50,675 with Brando and Clift... 845 00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:51,975 He did. 846 00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,546 ‐ Dean was the guy that went in. He just did it. 847 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:56,980 ‐ You feel his freedom. 848 00:41:56,981 --> 00:41:58,149 ‐ What’s wrong? ‐ It’s cold. 849 00:41:58,149 --> 00:41:59,917 ‐ You see his freedom in his acting. 850 00:41:59,917 --> 00:42:01,047 ‐ Now cough. 851 00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:02,082 (coughs) 852 00:42:02,086 --> 00:42:03,988 Turn your head and cough. 853 00:42:03,988 --> 00:42:06,388 (coughs) 854 00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:08,891 ‐ [Barbara] I was always very fond of Dean Martin. 855 00:42:10,094 --> 00:42:11,594 I played his girlfriend. 856 00:42:11,596 --> 00:42:12,396 ‐ I’m scared. 857 00:42:12,397 --> 00:42:13,937 ‐ No, don’t be scared. 858 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,300 I’ll come back, I have to come back. 859 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:20,638 How else can I marry you? 860 00:42:20,638 --> 00:42:23,038 ‐ Montgomery Clift just loved him. 861 00:42:23,041 --> 00:42:25,541 They were very fond of each other. 862 00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:27,311 (laughs) 863 00:42:27,311 --> 00:42:28,541 ‐ Montgomery Clift, 864 00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:32,256 he had just had this terrible car accident. 865 00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:38,349 ‐ He was so thin in it and he was ill. 866 00:42:38,356 --> 00:42:41,496 It’s a wonder he had a film at all, he was hurt. 867 00:42:43,795 --> 00:42:47,705 Dean was quite a doctor. 868 00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:51,702 He’d pick him up and he carried him, 869 00:42:51,702 --> 00:42:53,202 he carried him around the set. 870 00:42:55,006 --> 00:42:57,442 ‐ [Dean] He was so sick, he was in that wreck 871 00:42:57,442 --> 00:42:59,272 and nobody paid any attention to him. 872 00:42:59,277 --> 00:43:04,287 I used to carry him to the restaurant and... 873 00:43:05,016 --> 00:43:06,417 I loved him so much 874 00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,317 because he was so helpless 875 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,520 but nobody else paid attention to him. 876 00:43:13,991 --> 00:43:15,191 ‐ They were brothers. 877 00:43:16,394 --> 00:43:18,994 They were each other’s best friend. 878 00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:20,898 ‐ He said that Monty taught me how to act, 879 00:43:20,898 --> 00:43:22,628 he said just to listen and react. 880 00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:24,833 ‐ How do you spell "extenuating?" 881 00:43:24,836 --> 00:43:25,836 ‐ Hmm? 882 00:43:25,837 --> 00:43:26,947 "Extenuating." 883 00:43:29,073 --> 00:43:32,643 ‐ I don’t know E, X, T, E, E, X... 884 00:43:32,643 --> 00:43:34,712 ‐ Illiteracy, that’ll do it. 885 00:43:34,712 --> 00:43:39,012 ‐ Much to everyone’s surprise, he held his own. 886 00:43:39,016 --> 00:43:40,718 ‐ Who’s out there? 887 00:43:40,718 --> 00:43:42,318 ‐ Crowley. 888 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,520 ‐ Oh, Crowley good. 889 00:43:44,956 --> 00:43:46,958 ‐ Yeah, except he can’t swim. 890 00:43:46,958 --> 00:43:48,458 ‐ Even better. 891 00:43:48,459 --> 00:43:51,229 ‐ That was the first time I’d saw him do anything 892 00:43:51,229 --> 00:43:52,729 as a dramatic actor. 893 00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:55,160 I remember thinking about how good he was. 894 00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:57,768 ‐ When I look at "Young Lions" today 895 00:43:57,768 --> 00:44:00,968 the most exciting thing in it for me really is Dean Martin. 896 00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:02,872 ‐ How about you son? 897 00:44:02,874 --> 00:44:04,142 You look fat and sassy. 898 00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:05,672 ‐ Wait a minute, I just got here. 899 00:44:05,676 --> 00:44:08,980 ‐ I completely believe he is that character. 900 00:44:08,980 --> 00:44:10,448 ‐ Besides, I’m a coward. 901 00:44:10,448 --> 00:44:12,678 ‐ I’d seen "The Young Lions" where he was quite good. 902 00:44:12,683 --> 00:44:15,183 But Rio Bravo was really a performance 903 00:44:15,186 --> 00:44:18,726 where he played all that dramatic stuff. 904 00:44:19,891 --> 00:44:21,391 ‐ Hey, Chance, you gonna let him do that to me? 905 00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:24,892 ‐ He loved to do westerns, he was one of the kings. 906 00:44:24,896 --> 00:44:28,499 ‐ He’d practice over and over again to get the guns right. 907 00:44:28,499 --> 00:44:29,667 (gun shoot) 908 00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:32,767 ‐ [Jeanine] And of course, the Western hero 909 00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:34,300 ‐ Do just about what you want, Chance. 910 00:44:34,305 --> 00:44:39,110 ‐ is a kind of cool guy who rides into town and rides on, 911 00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:41,810 doesn’t need the town, doesn’t need the people, 912 00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,652 can go on his own way. 913 00:44:46,017 --> 00:44:48,920 ‐ Dean is so wonderful. 914 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,920 You felt he was really agonized trying to beat the bottle. 915 00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:02,028 ‐ Didn’t spill a drop. 916 00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:05,870 ‐ And so many colors to his character. 917 00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:06,770 ‐ Shakes are gone. 918 00:45:08,172 --> 00:45:11,672 ‐ Rio Bravo really broke the mold for him, being as a singer 919 00:45:11,676 --> 00:45:13,186 to being an actor. 920 00:45:14,078 --> 00:45:15,408 ‐ I don’t even wanna drink. 921 00:45:16,981 --> 00:45:18,749 ‐ It’s about time. 922 00:45:18,749 --> 00:45:21,349 I was getting awful tired of taking care of you. 923 00:45:21,352 --> 00:45:24,689 ‐ If you wanna jump in, I’ll take care of you. 924 00:45:24,689 --> 00:45:25,919 (chuckles) 925 00:45:25,923 --> 00:45:29,293 ‐ Within that movie is this strange moment 926 00:45:29,293 --> 00:45:32,129 where a musical number takes place. 927 00:45:32,129 --> 00:45:34,029 ‐ He and Ricky Nelson doing that 928 00:45:34,031 --> 00:45:37,931 "My Pony, My Saddle and Me" I just‐ 929 00:45:37,935 --> 00:45:40,705 or was it "My Rifle, My Pony and Me." 930 00:45:40,705 --> 00:45:45,042 ♪ The sun is sinking in the West ♪ 931 00:45:45,042 --> 00:45:47,842 ♪ The cattle go down to the stream ♪ 932 00:45:47,845 --> 00:45:51,185 ‐ That should be enshrined in some museum somewhere. 933 00:45:52,550 --> 00:45:54,719 ‐ It shouldn’t work but it does work. 934 00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,919 Because he’s created a character that you believe 935 00:45:57,922 --> 00:46:00,122 really exists in this world. 936 00:46:00,124 --> 00:46:05,134 ♪ Purple light in the canyons 937 00:46:06,564 --> 00:46:11,534 ♪ That’s where I long to be 938 00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:13,437 ‐ When you listen to Dean 939 00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:17,767 there’s this casual cool kind of sound. 940 00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:21,345 ♪ No more cows, no more cows 941 00:46:21,345 --> 00:46:24,215 ♪ To be roping, to be roping 942 00:46:24,215 --> 00:46:28,919 ♪ No more strays, no more strays, will I see ♪ 943 00:46:28,919 --> 00:46:30,549 It seems effortless. 944 00:46:30,554 --> 00:46:35,393 ♪ For my rifle, my pony 945 00:46:35,393 --> 00:46:39,263 ♪ and me 946 00:46:39,263 --> 00:46:43,901 At the time Dean sings "My Rifle, My Pony And Me" 947 00:46:43,901 --> 00:46:46,370 (instrumental music) 948 00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:49,470 people were listening to a more modern sound. 949 00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:55,713 ‐ But our music as a kid growing up was not Frank Sinatra. 950 00:46:55,713 --> 00:46:58,713 ♪ That’ll be the day when I die ♪ 951 00:46:58,716 --> 00:47:02,453 ‐ Dean Martin had a fairly high level of intelligence 952 00:47:02,453 --> 00:47:05,089 and real awareness about the business 953 00:47:05,089 --> 00:47:06,219 and what was happening. 954 00:47:09,060 --> 00:47:12,360 He had to think about, "Where’s popular music going 955 00:47:12,363 --> 00:47:14,699 and what is gonna be my career? 956 00:47:14,699 --> 00:47:16,869 I need to develop something else." 957 00:47:18,669 --> 00:47:22,239 ‐ Dean has some absolute film success. 958 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,339 But what’s he gonna do in nightclubs? 959 00:47:25,343 --> 00:47:28,612 In a brilliantly, aptly timed moment, 960 00:47:28,612 --> 00:47:33,622 You have Sinatra, great friend, he books him at the Sands. 961 00:47:34,218 --> 00:47:36,318 (upbeat music) 962 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:46,390 ‐ [James] Out of these feelings of admiration for Dean, 963 00:47:46,397 --> 00:47:49,300 Frank really began the first steps 964 00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:53,200 in what was to become Dean’s comeback in nightclubs. 965 00:47:54,405 --> 00:47:57,775 ‐ It was the first time he was a solo performer. 966 00:47:57,775 --> 00:47:59,475 I know he was nervous. 967 00:48:00,945 --> 00:48:03,814 ‐ Dean knows that because Frank has engineered this 968 00:48:03,814 --> 00:48:05,714 he’s gonna have a big audience there, 969 00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:07,518 but he’s gotta have an act. 970 00:48:07,518 --> 00:48:09,448 ‐ [Deana] I remember him talking about it. 971 00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:12,723 I remember him saying that he needed to get a gimmick. 972 00:48:13,858 --> 00:48:15,158 ‐ This is the moment when Ed Simmons 973 00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,889 who had written for "The Colgate Comedy Hour," 974 00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:20,297 goes to Dean and says, 975 00:48:20,297 --> 00:48:22,657 "Let me help you come up with an act." 976 00:48:22,666 --> 00:48:26,006 ‐ Dean told Simmons Joe E. Lewis is gone. 977 00:48:27,104 --> 00:48:30,074 Joe E. Lewis was a famous nightclub comic. 978 00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:32,344 ‐ And may I quote the words of Byron, 979 00:48:34,345 --> 00:48:36,847 Irving Byron, a bartender, you don’t know him. 980 00:48:36,847 --> 00:48:38,277 (audience laughs) 981 00:48:38,282 --> 00:48:40,451 ‐ His character was based on a guy who drank. 982 00:48:40,451 --> 00:48:43,721 Dean said, "Nobody’s doing that, I wanna do that." 983 00:48:43,721 --> 00:48:45,921 ‐ Dean Martin almost played the straight man 984 00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:47,658 to his drunken self. 985 00:48:47,658 --> 00:48:50,758 ‐ I feel sorry for you people that don’t drink. 986 00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,061 I mean it ’cause when you wake up in the morning, 987 00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:54,763 that’s good as you’re gonna feel all day. 988 00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,575 (audience laughs) 989 00:48:59,470 --> 00:49:02,970 ‐ And I became a bellhop at the Cal Neva. 990 00:49:04,141 --> 00:49:07,941 The Cal Neva Lodge was a hotel casino. 991 00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:11,081 All these big acts would come through. 992 00:49:11,081 --> 00:49:14,381 At the end of the summer was Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. 993 00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:16,720 And when I would finish as a bellhop, 994 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:20,690 I would go into the main room to see the two of them. 995 00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:22,691 ‐ Oh, thank you very much. 996 00:49:22,693 --> 00:49:24,128 (audience laughs) 997 00:49:24,128 --> 00:49:26,958 ‐ When I saw Dean Martin, I was amazed by him. 998 00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:29,464 ‐ Did he introduce me? I just walked on... Somebody‐ 999 00:49:29,467 --> 00:49:31,168 ‐ He was like, really, informal and, 1000 00:49:31,168 --> 00:49:32,598 "Where’d I put my drink?" 1001 00:49:32,603 --> 00:49:35,203 He’d say, "What song are we gonna do? 1002 00:49:35,206 --> 00:49:36,707 That song? I thought we were doing that. 1003 00:49:36,707 --> 00:49:39,667 No, no? Okay..." He’s just working this whole thing out 1004 00:49:39,677 --> 00:49:43,681 on stage. And he was a little bit tipsy, maybe. 1005 00:49:43,681 --> 00:49:47,681 ‐ Oh you just remember the great words of Mr. Joe E. Lewis. 1006 00:49:47,685 --> 00:49:49,185 He says, "You’re not drunk 1007 00:49:49,186 --> 00:49:51,021 if you can lay on the floor without holding on." 1008 00:49:51,021 --> 00:49:52,421 (audience laughs) 1009 00:49:52,423 --> 00:49:55,059 ‐ I’m amazed how spontaneous he could be 1010 00:49:55,059 --> 00:49:57,228 and still hold a show together. 1011 00:49:57,228 --> 00:50:01,758 The next night I come in, it’s exactly the same. 1012 00:50:01,765 --> 00:50:04,635 ‐ I like the wonderful words of Mr. Joe E. Lewis 1013 00:50:04,635 --> 00:50:06,804 he said, "You’re not drunk if you can lay on the floor," 1014 00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:09,940 ‐ One day I went into his dressing room after he had left 1015 00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:12,470 and saw that glass down on the table 1016 00:50:12,476 --> 00:50:14,211 and I picked it up. 1017 00:50:14,211 --> 00:50:15,411 Apple juice. 1018 00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:17,348 ‐ Dean is gonna play this character 1019 00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:19,478 for the rest of his show business career. 1020 00:50:19,483 --> 00:50:22,353 ‐ Martin and Lewis was in another eon. 1021 00:50:22,353 --> 00:50:23,653 (chuckles) 1022 00:50:23,654 --> 00:50:26,123 ‐ I don’t know if Dean was a method actor, 1023 00:50:26,123 --> 00:50:28,893 but there are certain strategic moments in his life 1024 00:50:28,893 --> 00:50:30,928 where he might have been a method singer. 1025 00:50:30,928 --> 00:50:35,928 ♪ Volare, oh oh 1026 00:50:37,701 --> 00:50:40,137 ♪ Cantare 1027 00:50:40,137 --> 00:50:42,037 ‐ I can remember all summer 1028 00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,339 everybody playing his version of "Volare." 1029 00:50:45,342 --> 00:50:49,412 ♪ Your love is giving me wings 1030 00:50:49,413 --> 00:50:54,351 ♪ Penso che un sogno cosi non ritorni mai più ♪ 1031 00:50:54,351 --> 00:50:58,789 ‐ Dean had the origin element of cool which is authenticity. 1032 00:50:58,789 --> 00:51:03,789 ♪ E incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito ♪ 1033 00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:07,898 ‐ The great thing about "Volare" is 1034 00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:12,898 it is this return to the earliest days 1035 00:51:14,004 --> 00:51:18,309 of him singing in Italian to Steubenville. 1036 00:51:18,309 --> 00:51:20,009 ♪ non ritorni mai più 1037 00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:24,310 ‐ He’s really leaning into it and saying that this is me. 1038 00:51:24,315 --> 00:51:28,785 ♪ Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu ♪ 1039 00:51:28,786 --> 00:51:30,996 (audience laughs) 1040 00:51:34,391 --> 00:51:38,891 ‐ Coming on the heels of this breakup with Jerry Lewis, 1041 00:51:38,896 --> 00:51:43,467 if you look at the Italian to English translation 1042 00:51:43,467 --> 00:51:48,437 of "Volare," it really does reveal a lot more 1043 00:51:49,573 --> 00:51:51,373 about what Dean experienced personally 1044 00:51:51,375 --> 00:51:54,045 in that last year before he made the records. 1045 00:51:55,546 --> 00:51:58,786 "Sometimes the world is a valley of heartaches and tears. 1046 00:52:00,150 --> 00:52:03,787 And in the hustle and bustle, no sunshine appears. 1047 00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:07,387 But you and I have our love always there to remind us. 1048 00:52:08,826 --> 00:52:12,696 There is a way we can leave all of the shadows behind us." 1049 00:52:13,831 --> 00:52:18,369 Now, if that doesn’t fit how Dean felt inside 1050 00:52:18,369 --> 00:52:22,339 about the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis 1051 00:52:22,339 --> 00:52:23,539 I don’t know what does. 1052 00:52:25,442 --> 00:52:30,042 ‐ Anytime you return to the source of your authenticity, 1053 00:52:30,047 --> 00:52:32,549 you get a boost for going forward. 1054 00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:35,149 (upbeat music) 1055 00:52:37,254 --> 00:52:40,424 ‐ Dean Martin was revered in Vegas. 1056 00:52:42,493 --> 00:52:44,528 He was one of the most charming, 1057 00:52:44,528 --> 00:52:47,958 almost childlike personalities I ever met. 1058 00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:53,427 Totally relaxed, and everybody around him was relaxed. 1059 00:52:53,437 --> 00:52:55,773 He was an experience. 1060 00:52:55,773 --> 00:52:59,143 ‐ Easygoing, gentleman, Frank loved him. 1061 00:52:59,143 --> 00:53:01,343 ‐ [Announcer] Sammy Davis joined the two on stage 1062 00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,013 and the night went into high gear. 1063 00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:05,382 ‐ Dean and Sammy were special. 1064 00:53:05,382 --> 00:53:06,782 They were more than entertainers 1065 00:53:06,784 --> 00:53:08,384 they were like brothers to him. 1066 00:53:11,922 --> 00:53:14,722 ‐ When Sinatra made the movie "Ocean’s Eleven" 1067 00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:17,261 in Vegas in 1960, 1068 00:53:17,261 --> 00:53:21,298 he decided that they would do an act at night for fun. 1069 00:53:21,298 --> 00:53:22,228 ‐ Say as long as we’re all here together, 1070 00:53:22,232 --> 00:53:24,501 why don’t we have a drink? 1071 00:53:24,501 --> 00:53:26,570 (audience laughs) 1072 00:53:26,570 --> 00:53:31,570 ‐ You had really sophisticated, charismatic, handsome, 1073 00:53:32,443 --> 00:53:33,843 well‐dressed guys acting like 1074 00:53:33,844 --> 00:53:36,244 drunken fraternity brothers on stage. 1075 00:53:39,450 --> 00:53:40,980 They call themselves the Rat Pack. 1076 00:53:40,984 --> 00:53:45,924 This was the apex of nightclub culture in the United States. 1077 00:53:47,357 --> 00:53:49,517 ‐ They were the hipsters. They were the hip thing. 1078 00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:52,096 (upbeat music) 1079 00:53:53,530 --> 00:53:54,730 ‐ They would do the show and then they would go out 1080 00:53:54,732 --> 00:53:57,972 in the casino, and Dean would deal cards. 1081 00:53:59,203 --> 00:54:01,438 ‐ These guys went out into the Sands 1082 00:54:01,438 --> 00:54:03,438 and were gambling at night. 1083 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:04,708 ‐ They’re having a ball. 1084 00:54:04,708 --> 00:54:06,208 You’re hanging out with your friends having fun. 1085 00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:07,740 ‐ [Narrator] As you might imagine, in any picture 1086 00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:10,280 Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin are engaged, 1087 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,410 there’s a gay party atmosphere among all the players 1088 00:54:12,416 --> 00:54:13,350 in this set. 1089 00:54:13,350 --> 00:54:14,850 ‐ All right, the show is on. 1090 00:54:14,852 --> 00:54:17,588 ‐ You get older and you start watching older movies 1091 00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:22,058 and realize that there was this thing called The Rat Pack. 1092 00:54:22,059 --> 00:54:24,928 ♪ How lucky can one guy be? 1093 00:54:24,928 --> 00:54:28,228 ♪ I kissed her and she kissed me ♪ 1094 00:54:28,232 --> 00:54:30,267 ♪ Like the fella once said, 1095 00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:31,927 ♪ "Ain’t that a kick in the head?" ♪ 1096 00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:36,945 That was and remains a pretty distinct signpost of cool, 1097 00:54:37,808 --> 00:54:39,438 especially masculine cool. 1098 00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:44,381 ♪ A flower’s not a flower if it’s wilted ♪ 1099 00:54:44,381 --> 00:54:48,851 ♪ A hat’s not a hat ’til it’s tilted ♪ 1100 00:54:48,852 --> 00:54:51,622 And the deeper you dig into it the more you realize 1101 00:54:51,622 --> 00:54:54,922 there’s a reason that it has staying power. 1102 00:54:57,060 --> 00:54:59,490 ‐ We definitely have, over the years, 1103 00:54:59,496 --> 00:55:01,298 created our own Rat Packs, you know what I mean, 1104 00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:04,067 you see the Rockefeller, the Jay‐Z crew, 1105 00:55:04,067 --> 00:55:05,327 you see the Wu Tang Clan, 1106 00:55:05,335 --> 00:55:08,038 a bunch of men all coming together, 1107 00:55:08,038 --> 00:55:11,338 and they actually move culture forward when you have that. 1108 00:55:13,343 --> 00:55:15,843 ‐ There was a feeling of family, a feeling of community. 1109 00:55:15,846 --> 00:55:17,748 ‐ And now she is the leading lady 1110 00:55:17,748 --> 00:55:20,278 of our picture "Ocean’s Eleven," Miss Angie Dickinson. 1111 00:55:20,284 --> 00:55:22,352 (claps) 1112 00:55:22,352 --> 00:55:24,788 ‐ Did I hang out with all of them much? 1113 00:55:24,788 --> 00:55:28,458 Not an awful lot, you just can’t hang around 1114 00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:33,458 with that many gorgeous, successful, fun, happy men 1115 00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:37,005 and pretty soon you’ll have to explain yourself. 1116 00:55:40,037 --> 00:55:43,106 ‐ My dad would be out there, entertain everybody, 1117 00:55:43,106 --> 00:55:45,916 and then he was perfectly happy being at home. 1118 00:55:46,944 --> 00:55:48,178 ‐ [George] He and Jeanne Martin 1119 00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,878 had one of the great families of all time. 1120 00:55:52,316 --> 00:55:54,818 Every night they’d get home for dinner. 1121 00:55:54,818 --> 00:55:57,418 They would all meet in this huge dining room they had. 1122 00:55:58,589 --> 00:56:01,019 ‐ Together at 601 Mountain Drive, 1123 00:56:01,024 --> 00:56:03,224 seven kids sitting around the table. 1124 00:56:03,227 --> 00:56:05,562 That was the happy place. 1125 00:56:05,562 --> 00:56:07,431 My grandmother was making the pasta fazool 1126 00:56:07,431 --> 00:56:08,431 and the chicken. 1127 00:56:08,432 --> 00:56:10,801 Everybody was over at the house. 1128 00:56:10,801 --> 00:56:14,838 If we all had a friend over, it’s 14 people right there. 1129 00:56:14,838 --> 00:56:17,038 ‐ We would dine in the dining room. 1130 00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,540 Dean would be there at the head of the table 1131 00:56:19,543 --> 00:56:21,411 and Jeanne would be there. 1132 00:56:21,411 --> 00:56:22,880 It’s something let me tell you 1133 00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,249 having Dean Martin sit at the head of the table. 1134 00:56:25,249 --> 00:56:27,417 ‐ Dean came home one night with Frank. 1135 00:56:27,417 --> 00:56:28,677 The kids brought their friends. 1136 00:56:28,685 --> 00:56:30,153 There was no room in the dining room 1137 00:56:30,153 --> 00:56:32,222 and Dean says, "How do you like that pally, 1138 00:56:32,222 --> 00:56:34,091 we screwed ourselves out of a seat 1139 00:56:34,091 --> 00:56:35,559 at the dining room table." 1140 00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:36,789 (chuckles) 1141 00:56:36,793 --> 00:56:38,493 So Dean and Frank ate in the kitchen. 1142 00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:42,763 ‐ Guitarist Dino Martin Jr. is 13. 1143 00:56:44,835 --> 00:56:47,704 ‐ [Bill] Dino, Desi, and Billy, they had a rock band 1144 00:56:47,704 --> 00:56:50,173 with some modicum of success. 1145 00:56:50,173 --> 00:56:52,109 ♪ You can’t be kind to me 1146 00:56:52,109 --> 00:56:53,709 ‐ You got Dean Martin’s son, Dino, 1147 00:56:53,710 --> 00:56:55,779 Desi Arnaz’s son, Desi Arnaz Jr., 1148 00:56:55,779 --> 00:56:59,349 and another equally talented guy named Billy. 1149 00:56:59,349 --> 00:57:02,679 ‐ In 1965, I’d mark that as our year. 1150 00:57:02,686 --> 00:57:05,656 We were sharing the top 10, 20 in any given city 1151 00:57:05,656 --> 00:57:09,266 with The Beatles, The Supremes, The Stones. 1152 00:57:11,795 --> 00:57:14,698 ‐ He had a big hit. In fact Dino made so much money 1153 00:57:14,698 --> 00:57:16,258 when he was 16 years old, 1154 00:57:16,266 --> 00:57:18,836 he bought himself a Dino Ferrari. 1155 00:57:19,970 --> 00:57:21,738 And I’m trying to think what age he was 1156 00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:24,568 when he started flying the helicopters. 1157 00:57:27,244 --> 00:57:32,014 We had a fun house, it was a big crazy family that we had. 1158 00:57:33,784 --> 00:57:36,353 Dean Paul is just a couple years younger than I am 1159 00:57:36,353 --> 00:57:38,153 and Ricky younger than that. 1160 00:57:38,155 --> 00:57:40,824 But Dino and Ricky bought a Sherman tank. 1161 00:57:40,824 --> 00:57:44,094 Dad and Jeanne had just gotten back from a trip 1162 00:57:44,094 --> 00:57:45,429 and Dad when he would come home, 1163 00:57:45,429 --> 00:57:46,989 he would turn on the lights. 1164 00:57:48,398 --> 00:57:49,858 So he said that he and Jeanne go in 1165 00:57:49,866 --> 00:57:52,336 and they turned on the lights and there’s a tank. 1166 00:57:52,336 --> 00:57:55,138 She said that Dad turned off the lights and said, 1167 00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:57,908 "Is there a tank in the garage?" 1168 00:57:57,908 --> 00:58:00,108 And she said, "Yes there is," he said, "Okay." 1169 00:58:00,110 --> 00:58:02,479 They were nuts, Dino and Ricky. 1170 00:58:02,479 --> 00:58:04,649 All of us were a little bit crazy. 1171 00:58:05,782 --> 00:58:09,319 ‐ I did security for Dean for almost 10 years 1172 00:58:09,319 --> 00:58:11,449 between he and the family. 1173 00:58:11,455 --> 00:58:13,590 Two o’clock in the morning, I would hear, 1174 00:58:13,590 --> 00:58:14,958 (mimicking footstep sounds) 1175 00:58:14,958 --> 00:58:16,488 and he’d be coming down the stairs 1176 00:58:16,493 --> 00:58:18,093 and he’d have a sport coat on, 1177 00:58:18,095 --> 00:58:19,563 there’d be golf balls in his pocket. 1178 00:58:19,563 --> 00:58:23,633 He had pajama bottoms on the bottom and his slippers, 1179 00:58:23,633 --> 00:58:28,071 and he would be hitting golf balls down Copa de Oro. 1180 00:58:28,071 --> 00:58:30,471 (bell rings) 1181 00:58:31,908 --> 00:58:36,578 ‐ The very first movie I ever did starred Dean Martin. 1182 00:58:36,580 --> 00:58:39,410 Jason, you and Melissa were made for each other 1183 00:58:39,416 --> 00:58:40,984 and I unmade you. 1184 00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:44,021 Dean was so loose. 1185 00:58:44,021 --> 00:58:45,421 Jason, what are you doing? 1186 00:58:45,422 --> 00:58:48,492 And was a lot of fun, very supportive. 1187 00:58:48,492 --> 00:58:50,392 I can help you I work with mental illness. 1188 00:58:50,394 --> 00:58:52,162 Believe me, I know what makes you tick. 1189 00:58:52,162 --> 00:58:54,131 He would go play golf a lot. 1190 00:58:54,131 --> 00:58:54,931 (chuckles) 1191 00:58:54,931 --> 00:58:56,400 When he was finished, 1192 00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,230 he’d say, "I want to get out of here so I can go play golf." 1193 00:59:00,103 --> 00:59:01,603 ‐ He was an excellent golfer, 1194 00:59:01,605 --> 00:59:04,541 one of the best of the entertainers. 1195 00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,511 ‐ The carpet in our house was green, it was like a fairway, 1196 00:59:08,445 --> 00:59:10,045 and he would practice his swing. 1197 00:59:11,481 --> 00:59:14,281 ‐ A lot of people wonder why celebrities play golf. 1198 00:59:14,284 --> 00:59:16,784 It’s because there was no way 1199 00:59:16,787 --> 00:59:18,897 anybody could get out there to bother him. 1200 00:59:24,394 --> 00:59:26,794 ‐ Dean really had two basic lives. 1201 00:59:26,797 --> 00:59:29,299 He was the Dean Martin everybody saw, 1202 00:59:29,299 --> 00:59:34,299 the laid‐back, playboy, boozy type image. 1203 00:59:34,304 --> 00:59:38,474 And Dino Crocetti, the guy who worried about his future 1204 00:59:38,475 --> 00:59:40,075 and the people he really loved. 1205 00:59:40,077 --> 00:59:45,087 And the golf game, which showed him, I was good at golf. 1206 00:59:45,816 --> 00:59:47,284 It wasn’t made up. 1207 00:59:47,284 --> 00:59:50,020 I could really be good or I could really be bad. 1208 00:59:50,020 --> 00:59:52,650 But in show business, everything’s made up. 1209 00:59:59,596 --> 01:00:02,232 ‐ Dean really never spent much time 1210 01:00:02,232 --> 01:00:05,068 hanging out late at night with Frank Sinatra. 1211 01:00:05,068 --> 01:00:07,198 ‐ He would go to his room. 1212 01:00:07,204 --> 01:00:08,939 Frank would want to have dinner with everybody, 1213 01:00:08,939 --> 01:00:10,369 we’d have dinner with everybody 1214 01:00:10,373 --> 01:00:12,313 and Dean would go up to his room. 1215 01:00:13,410 --> 01:00:16,010 ‐ Sinatra was a dictator, 1216 01:00:16,012 --> 01:00:17,781 and Sinatra could dictate the terms 1217 01:00:17,781 --> 01:00:21,221 of any social interaction except with one person. 1218 01:00:22,686 --> 01:00:25,088 If Sinatra told you that you were gonna stay up with him 1219 01:00:25,088 --> 01:00:29,858 until 5:00, 6:30 AM and keep him company, you did it. 1220 01:00:29,860 --> 01:00:32,690 If Sinatra said that to Dean he would say, 1221 01:00:32,696 --> 01:00:36,533 "Fuck you Frank," and he’d walk away and he’d go to bed. 1222 01:00:36,533 --> 01:00:39,103 (jazz music) 1223 01:00:41,738 --> 01:00:45,008 ‐ Dean and Jeanne they had a practically open house, 1224 01:00:45,008 --> 01:00:46,538 a lot of parties. 1225 01:00:46,543 --> 01:00:49,083 ‐ Jeanne Martin would have a party every Saturday night 1226 01:00:50,180 --> 01:00:51,510 and they’d invite everybody over 1227 01:00:51,515 --> 01:00:54,518 and they were the Milton Berles and that society. 1228 01:00:54,518 --> 01:00:57,388 ‐ The A‐list. The Billy Wilders and Jimmy Stewart. 1229 01:00:58,822 --> 01:01:00,690 ‐ 8:30, 9:00 o’clock Dean would come through the room 1230 01:01:00,690 --> 01:01:03,290 with his martini, "Hey, pally, how are you, 1231 01:01:03,293 --> 01:01:04,127 oh, nice to see you, 1232 01:01:04,127 --> 01:01:05,657 oh, hello, pal." 1233 01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,932 And everybody was sure that Dean was so glad to see ’em. 1234 01:01:08,932 --> 01:01:10,432 ‐ And after a little while, 1235 01:01:10,433 --> 01:01:12,873 suddenly everybody would look around and say where’s Dean? 1236 01:01:15,372 --> 01:01:18,909 ‐ I went to a party that was given by Dean Martin. 1237 01:01:18,909 --> 01:01:22,809 It was a big affair, and I went to the bathroom. 1238 01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:26,612 And I walked past this door that was like a quarter open 1239 01:01:26,616 --> 01:01:28,485 and I heard the television set inside 1240 01:01:28,485 --> 01:01:30,120 and I just looked inside a little bit. 1241 01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,650 And there was Dean Martin at his own party. 1242 01:01:32,656 --> 01:01:35,759 And he’s watching The Andy Griffith Show. 1243 01:01:35,759 --> 01:01:37,119 ‐ If you won’t take her to the movies 1244 01:01:37,127 --> 01:01:39,262 and buy her $2 worth of popcorn... 1245 01:01:39,262 --> 01:01:40,897 ‐ I tried to duck back out. 1246 01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:43,427 He said, "Hey kid, come on in, what are you doing you? 1247 01:01:43,433 --> 01:01:45,068 Oh, you’re from the party?" 1248 01:01:45,068 --> 01:01:48,238 And it’s like he said it disdainfully, and it’s his party. 1249 01:01:48,238 --> 01:01:51,468 And he was very playful and friendly. 1250 01:01:51,474 --> 01:01:53,243 But I said, "Shouldn’t you be back out at your party?" 1251 01:01:53,243 --> 01:01:54,743 And he said, "No, they don’t need me." 1252 01:01:54,744 --> 01:01:56,112 ‐ Dean wanted to go to bed. 1253 01:01:56,112 --> 01:01:59,649 And that party going on downstairs bothered him. 1254 01:01:59,649 --> 01:02:02,549 ‐ And he’d call the Beverly Hills police, 1255 01:02:02,552 --> 01:02:05,488 he said, "I’m a neighbor of Dean Martin’s, 1256 01:02:05,488 --> 01:02:08,318 and he’s having a very noisy party." 1257 01:02:08,325 --> 01:02:11,261 ‐ "I live on Mountain Drive and the people down there 1258 01:02:11,261 --> 01:02:13,530 are having a party with a lot of noisy people, 1259 01:02:13,530 --> 01:02:15,530 and I’d like for them to be quiet." 1260 01:02:15,532 --> 01:02:18,268 ‐ Police would come over and knock on Dean’s door, 1261 01:02:18,268 --> 01:02:20,368 Dean would open the door and they said, 1262 01:02:20,370 --> 01:02:23,700 "Mr. Martin, you really‐ tell your friends to keep it down, 1263 01:02:23,707 --> 01:02:25,141 the neighbors are complaining." 1264 01:02:25,141 --> 01:02:27,611 So everyone then, well, maybe we better leave. 1265 01:02:27,611 --> 01:02:29,980 So they all left and so Dean could go to sleep 1266 01:02:29,980 --> 01:02:32,780 and get up for the golf game. 1267 01:02:34,718 --> 01:02:36,978 ‐ I don’t wanna be flippant about this 1268 01:02:36,987 --> 01:02:38,221 I mean, he loved to play golf. 1269 01:02:38,221 --> 01:02:42,559 And I don’t know that he had a Rosebud, per se, 1270 01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:43,889 but it was just... 1271 01:02:49,065 --> 01:02:52,202 ‐ The core of this, the root of this, 1272 01:02:52,202 --> 01:02:55,538 was that when people got to talking at a dinner party, 1273 01:02:55,538 --> 01:02:56,998 all kinds of things would come up, 1274 01:02:57,007 --> 01:03:00,310 politics would come up, studio gossip would come up. 1275 01:03:00,310 --> 01:03:03,880 And Dean ultimately felt that he wasn’t equipped 1276 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:08,920 to hold his own in a world of bright, shiny, 1277 01:03:10,353 --> 01:03:14,391 fast‐talking people. He was this guy from Steubenville 1278 01:03:14,391 --> 01:03:16,491 deep in the core of his being. 1279 01:03:16,493 --> 01:03:18,093 And that’s what really drove him to the den 1280 01:03:18,094 --> 01:03:19,894 to watch the Westerns on TV. 1281 01:03:21,965 --> 01:03:24,868 ‐ Dean Martin was coming to English as a second language. 1282 01:03:24,868 --> 01:03:26,998 Somebody who had that kind of background, 1283 01:03:27,003 --> 01:03:29,739 this is going to make you more inclined 1284 01:03:29,739 --> 01:03:33,309 to distrust the mainstream culture, 1285 01:03:33,310 --> 01:03:35,140 to feel cynical about it, 1286 01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:38,255 you’re gonna be very leery about wanting to be a part of it. 1287 01:03:41,618 --> 01:03:44,218 ‐ When you come from an Italian family 1288 01:03:44,220 --> 01:03:46,350 speaking only Italian 1289 01:03:46,356 --> 01:03:48,425 and then put into another culture, 1290 01:03:48,425 --> 01:03:50,325 it gives you a small advantage as well 1291 01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:51,561 because you know something 1292 01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:53,331 that the rest of the people don’t know. 1293 01:03:54,731 --> 01:03:57,331 ‐ [Gerald] Just look at Martin’s attitude about JFK. 1294 01:03:59,169 --> 01:04:02,339 ‐ When Kennedy was trying to become president 1295 01:04:02,339 --> 01:04:05,239 there was a relationship between the Rat Pack and Kennedy. 1296 01:04:05,241 --> 01:04:09,379 ‐ Senator John Kennedy from the great state of Massachusets. 1297 01:04:09,379 --> 01:04:12,809 ‐ Kennedy comes to Las Vegas for the Rat Pack shows. 1298 01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:17,084 ‐ The Rat Pack were big supporters of JFK when he ran. 1299 01:04:17,087 --> 01:04:20,256 They saw JFK as really a new generation. 1300 01:04:20,256 --> 01:04:22,726 I mean, they saw him as like the hip president. 1301 01:04:22,726 --> 01:04:25,766 If there was ever a hip president, it was gonna be JFK. 1302 01:04:27,364 --> 01:04:29,532 ‐ [Steven] Sinatra was yearning 1303 01:04:29,532 --> 01:04:31,502 to be a part of the administration. 1304 01:04:32,802 --> 01:04:35,202 Sammy Davis Jr. was very hopeful 1305 01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,807 that Kennedy would represent a kind of new chapter 1306 01:04:37,807 --> 01:04:39,067 in the civil rights. 1307 01:04:39,075 --> 01:04:40,610 ‐ Negro baby is born there 1308 01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:42,940 and a white baby is born next door. 1309 01:04:42,946 --> 01:04:46,049 His chance of being unemployed is four times of that baby’s. 1310 01:04:46,049 --> 01:04:48,618 ‐ Part of the attraction of the Rat Pack, 1311 01:04:48,618 --> 01:04:51,448 and I think part of actually their agenda 1312 01:04:51,454 --> 01:04:55,658 because they actually sort of talked about this on occasion, 1313 01:04:55,658 --> 01:04:57,018 was civil rights. 1314 01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:02,665 ‐ In Las Vegas at the time that the Rat Pack has emerged, 1315 01:05:02,665 --> 01:05:05,468 having an integrated act is very, very unusual. 1316 01:05:05,468 --> 01:05:07,498 It’s a big deal. 1317 01:05:07,504 --> 01:05:08,904 ‐ [Deana] Sammy wasn’t allowed, 1318 01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:11,374 they wouldn’t let him into a restaurant. 1319 01:05:11,374 --> 01:05:13,843 In the Sands he could perform on stage 1320 01:05:13,843 --> 01:05:15,443 and bring in lots of money. 1321 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,110 ‐ [Gerald] The Rat Pack made it seem like a hip person 1322 01:05:20,116 --> 01:05:22,018 doesn’t have any problem with somebody 1323 01:05:22,018 --> 01:05:23,318 because of their race. 1324 01:05:24,487 --> 01:05:27,087 ‐ Dean Martin, he liked Kennedy’s candidacy 1325 01:05:27,090 --> 01:05:29,820 and had great sympathy for the civil rights movement. 1326 01:05:29,826 --> 01:05:33,163 But he was more cynical about politics. 1327 01:05:33,163 --> 01:05:35,363 He didn’t really trust politicians. 1328 01:05:35,365 --> 01:05:37,867 ‐ Dean, who didn’t give a shit about politicians, 1329 01:05:37,867 --> 01:05:39,327 said stay away from those guys. 1330 01:05:39,335 --> 01:05:41,471 ‐ Hi Jack. 1331 01:05:41,471 --> 01:05:43,071 ‐ What was his last name again? 1332 01:05:43,072 --> 01:05:45,909 (audience laughs) 1333 01:05:45,909 --> 01:05:48,239 ‐ Dean Martin was wiser than the other people 1334 01:05:48,244 --> 01:05:49,744 in the Rat Pack. 1335 01:05:49,746 --> 01:05:53,283 And certainly Sinatra was kind of naive about Kennedy. 1336 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:55,618 (soft music) 1337 01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:59,388 JFK made that very clear to him once he got elected. 1338 01:05:59,389 --> 01:06:02,419 No, Sammy Davis isn’t coming to the inauguration 1339 01:06:02,425 --> 01:06:05,094 because I can’t have an integrated couple there, 1340 01:06:05,094 --> 01:06:07,430 that’s just not gonna work for me. 1341 01:06:07,430 --> 01:06:10,099 Sammy Davis Jr. felt betrayed by this 1342 01:06:10,099 --> 01:06:12,629 because he thought that JFK was his friend. 1343 01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:17,240 ‐ [Steven] Kennedy’s inauguration, absolutely dominated 1344 01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,140 by Hollywood actors, singers, entertainers. 1345 01:06:21,144 --> 01:06:25,654 Sinatra went along with all of this, but not Dean Martin. 1346 01:06:27,250 --> 01:06:29,150 ‐ [Deana] Dad did not go to the inauguration 1347 01:06:29,152 --> 01:06:30,682 ’cause of Sammy. 1348 01:06:30,687 --> 01:06:33,189 Dad said, "This is my friend, I’m sticking with my friend 1349 01:06:33,189 --> 01:06:34,219 and I’m not going." 1350 01:06:36,493 --> 01:06:39,293 ‐ Martin seemed like somebody who had no tolerance 1351 01:06:39,295 --> 01:06:41,598 for bullshit. To be somebody who was cool 1352 01:06:41,598 --> 01:06:43,128 was that you were honest. 1353 01:06:43,132 --> 01:06:45,032 You were honest about yourself. 1354 01:06:45,034 --> 01:06:47,403 You were honest about the world about you. 1355 01:06:47,403 --> 01:06:50,173 You didn’t accept bullshit. 1356 01:06:50,173 --> 01:06:54,343 ‐ Dean Martin had a kind of honor code. 1357 01:06:54,344 --> 01:06:55,544 On "The Dean Martin Show," 1358 01:06:55,545 --> 01:06:58,314 Greg Garrison, who was his producer, 1359 01:06:58,314 --> 01:07:00,149 one of the most lucrative deals, 1360 01:07:00,149 --> 01:07:04,949 they never had a written contract. They just shook hands. 1361 01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:09,092 ‐ [Announcer] It’s "The Milton Berle Show." 1362 01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:13,590 ‐ In the early 1960s, variety shows 1363 01:07:13,596 --> 01:07:15,164 were the staple of television. 1364 01:07:15,164 --> 01:07:18,868 ♪ We wish you the happiest, the happiest, the happiest ♪ 1365 01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:22,238 And NBC decided that they would like Dean Martin 1366 01:07:22,238 --> 01:07:24,298 to host his own weekly show. 1367 01:07:24,307 --> 01:07:26,843 ‐ He did not want to do a TV show. 1368 01:07:26,843 --> 01:07:29,343 I think Frank Sinatra had a show that didn’t work. 1369 01:07:31,447 --> 01:07:33,477 Jerry Lewis had a TV show, it didn’t work. 1370 01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:36,581 Dad didn’t really wanna do it. 1371 01:07:37,453 --> 01:07:39,188 ‐ So he made a lot of demands. 1372 01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:41,388 A lot of money, of course. 1373 01:07:41,391 --> 01:07:44,391 Also, he didn’t want to come in for rehearsals. 1374 01:07:44,394 --> 01:07:46,930 And he would only tape the show on one day a week. 1375 01:07:46,930 --> 01:07:48,898 ‐ And I want that to be on Sunday afternoon 1376 01:07:48,898 --> 01:07:50,058 after I play golf. 1377 01:07:51,534 --> 01:07:55,672 ‐ He thought NBC would never agree to that, but they did. 1378 01:07:55,672 --> 01:07:57,272 ‐ Yeah, it sure is good to be back. 1379 01:07:57,273 --> 01:07:59,108 On Nebec‐ Nebec? 1380 01:07:59,108 --> 01:08:00,608 ‐ [Announcer] On NBC. 1381 01:08:00,610 --> 01:08:03,910 ‐ NBC. Ya stick a period in after everything there. Nebec. 1382 01:08:05,214 --> 01:08:07,414 ‐ That show was hugely popular. 1383 01:08:07,417 --> 01:08:09,652 ‐ I watch it every Monday night, Andy. 1384 01:08:09,652 --> 01:08:12,252 (audience laughs) 1385 01:08:14,857 --> 01:08:17,557 ‐ We were the top 10 for the entire nine years. 1386 01:08:20,563 --> 01:08:22,432 ‐ And they’re so nice to me. 1387 01:08:22,432 --> 01:08:25,802 They told me to treat this place like it was my own home, 1388 01:08:25,802 --> 01:08:28,002 and I do, I show up once a week. 1389 01:08:28,004 --> 01:08:29,739 (audience laughs) 1390 01:08:29,739 --> 01:08:31,239 ‐ It was a happy set. 1391 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,370 I can’t think of any other show I’ve ever worked on 1392 01:08:33,376 --> 01:08:34,844 where everybody had a good time. 1393 01:08:34,844 --> 01:08:37,513 ‐ We worked with all the top stars. 1394 01:08:37,513 --> 01:08:39,213 ‐ I’m working on a Western right now 1395 01:08:39,215 --> 01:08:40,483 with Kirk Douglas... 1396 01:08:40,483 --> 01:08:42,783 ‐ I did "The Dean Martin Show" with Dom DeLuise. 1397 01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:44,253 You talk about funny. 1398 01:08:44,253 --> 01:08:47,723 We literally couldn’t go on, we just couldn’t stop laughing. 1399 01:08:49,492 --> 01:08:52,028 ‐ Dom DeLuise is one of the funniest men in the world. 1400 01:08:52,028 --> 01:08:53,488 Greg Garrison, our producer, 1401 01:08:53,496 --> 01:08:57,100 he took Dom into Dean’s dressing room and of course, 1402 01:08:57,100 --> 01:09:02,100 Dean’s dresser was full of delicatessen stuff on the table. 1403 01:09:03,272 --> 01:09:04,807 And Dom said, "Look at all this food! 1404 01:09:04,807 --> 01:09:07,237 You’re somebody I could love!" to Dean. 1405 01:09:07,243 --> 01:09:10,013 And they did the show many many times, 1406 01:09:10,013 --> 01:09:13,650 and went off to, on an adlib spree 1407 01:09:13,650 --> 01:09:15,318 almost every time he was on the show. 1408 01:09:15,318 --> 01:09:16,848 ‐ How much was that again? 1409 01:09:16,853 --> 01:09:20,553 ‐ 17,000,000, 369 79,000 million dollars. 1410 01:09:20,556 --> 01:09:22,592 (audience laughs) 1411 01:09:22,592 --> 01:09:25,128 ‐ And Dean loved that, he went along with it. 1412 01:09:25,128 --> 01:09:26,058 ‐ That’s a lot of‐ 1413 01:09:26,062 --> 01:09:26,892 (bleeping) 1414 01:09:26,896 --> 01:09:28,665 (audience laughs) 1415 01:09:28,665 --> 01:09:30,099 ‐ He’d be in such good spirits about it. 1416 01:09:30,099 --> 01:09:32,199 ‐ You’re always pretending to be so dumb. 1417 01:09:32,201 --> 01:09:33,569 You know what I mean? 1418 01:09:33,569 --> 01:09:35,338 ‐ Yeah, I’m not pretending, I really am dumb. 1419 01:09:35,338 --> 01:09:36,798 (audience laughing) 1420 01:09:36,806 --> 01:09:38,941 ‐ He loved performers and when he looked at Goldie Hawn 1421 01:09:38,941 --> 01:09:40,371 it was magic. 1422 01:09:40,376 --> 01:09:42,578 ‐ He loved surrounding himself with talented people 1423 01:09:42,578 --> 01:09:45,248 ’cause he was so secure in his own talent. 1424 01:09:45,248 --> 01:09:47,978 ‐ If you were one of Doris Day’s freckles would you tell? 1425 01:09:47,984 --> 01:09:49,819 ‐ What are you reading, Dean? 1426 01:09:49,819 --> 01:09:51,219 ‐ Popular Mechanics. 1427 01:09:52,321 --> 01:09:54,451 ‐ It was like going to university 1428 01:09:54,457 --> 01:09:57,760 to see these great performers work every week. 1429 01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,760 Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald. 1430 01:10:03,633 --> 01:10:05,001 ‐ We didn’t rehearse with Dean. 1431 01:10:05,001 --> 01:10:06,231 (chuckles) 1432 01:10:06,235 --> 01:10:07,470 He was on the golf course playing golf. 1433 01:10:07,470 --> 01:10:10,640 ‐ I never saw him before a show ever. 1434 01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,370 ‐ Oh, will you stop being so ridiculous? 1435 01:10:13,376 --> 01:10:15,712 ‐ Hey there, that’s not in the scrippy. 1436 01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:17,712 (audience laughs) 1437 01:10:17,714 --> 01:10:19,514 ‐ They always said Dean didn’t rehearse. 1438 01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:23,585 What he would do is he would have the whole show recorded 1439 01:10:23,586 --> 01:10:25,455 and Dean would play it in the golf cart 1440 01:10:25,455 --> 01:10:27,490 and play it in his car. 1441 01:10:27,490 --> 01:10:29,890 ‐ I was the assistant choreographer on the show. 1442 01:10:31,260 --> 01:10:33,229 I would stand in for Dean for the dances 1443 01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:36,999 and he would watch it from his dressing room on a monitor. 1444 01:10:42,772 --> 01:10:45,041 He would see me doing it but he would see it in reverse 1445 01:10:45,041 --> 01:10:46,641 and I kept saying, "Should I turn around 1446 01:10:46,642 --> 01:10:47,910 and do it backwards for him?" 1447 01:10:47,910 --> 01:10:50,410 And they said, "No, do it like you do it." 1448 01:10:50,413 --> 01:10:52,148 And he would reverse it in his head. 1449 01:10:52,148 --> 01:10:55,278 He’s an amazing natural talent, 1450 01:10:55,284 --> 01:10:58,554 an in intuitive, natural performer. 1451 01:10:58,554 --> 01:11:00,189 ♪ For every girl 1452 01:11:00,189 --> 01:11:02,319 ‐ No, no that’s wrong, hold it. 1453 01:11:02,325 --> 01:11:04,093 ♪ For every girl 1454 01:11:04,093 --> 01:11:06,993 ‐ He would make little mistakes constantly, 1455 01:11:06,996 --> 01:11:08,798 but that was a part of the show. 1456 01:11:08,798 --> 01:11:10,058 ♪ Gimme a little kiss 1457 01:11:10,066 --> 01:11:11,934 ‐ No now they only gave you two bars. 1458 01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:15,538 ‐ I was cool with it because I also improvised a lot. 1459 01:11:15,538 --> 01:11:17,938 He would say to me, "Now when it’s my turn to sing 1460 01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:19,570 just give me a little poke." 1461 01:11:19,575 --> 01:11:21,144 He never knew his lyrics 1462 01:11:21,144 --> 01:11:23,844 and we’d be laughing during the takes. 1463 01:11:23,846 --> 01:11:25,786 (singing) 1464 01:11:28,851 --> 01:11:30,119 (singing) 1465 01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:32,819 ‐ I knew it was that I was just taking my time. 1466 01:11:32,822 --> 01:11:35,691 (singing) 1467 01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:38,891 ‐ I did a routine on a guy who got a toupee 1468 01:11:38,895 --> 01:11:40,495 for Christmas from his wife. 1469 01:11:41,931 --> 01:11:43,231 (mumbles) 1470 01:11:43,232 --> 01:11:44,767 ...toupee fell into the tea... 1471 01:11:44,767 --> 01:11:47,067 (audience laughing) 1472 01:11:47,069 --> 01:11:49,939 I did 24 of Dean’s shows and and I liked it. 1473 01:11:49,939 --> 01:11:53,709 We were two nightclub people that were kind of used to 1474 01:11:53,709 --> 01:11:54,709 the unscripted. 1475 01:11:54,710 --> 01:11:57,110 ‐ Would you want a full exchange? 1476 01:11:57,113 --> 01:11:59,513 (audience laughs) 1477 01:11:59,515 --> 01:12:01,517 ‐ I’d like the straight man who didn’t laugh. 1478 01:12:01,517 --> 01:12:04,147 (audience laughs) 1479 01:12:04,153 --> 01:12:06,422 ‐ Sometimes, something would come out wrong, 1480 01:12:06,422 --> 01:12:07,990 and he’d make a joke out of it. 1481 01:12:07,990 --> 01:12:10,259 ♪ I heard somebody whipser 1482 01:12:10,259 --> 01:12:12,089 ♪ Whisper 1483 01:12:12,094 --> 01:12:15,097 (audience laughs) 1484 01:12:15,097 --> 01:12:16,897 ‐ The S is before the P. 1485 01:12:16,899 --> 01:12:17,999 (audience laughs) 1486 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,900 ‐ I think it was my first show. 1487 01:12:19,902 --> 01:12:22,038 (upbeat music) 1488 01:12:22,038 --> 01:12:25,608 They always had me doing acrobatic things at the rehearsal. 1489 01:12:25,608 --> 01:12:29,608 I did a backflip off a boy’s back and landed on my foot 1490 01:12:29,612 --> 01:12:31,812 and broke it. The show was the next day. 1491 01:12:33,082 --> 01:12:36,822 My foot started to swell and it hurt so badly. 1492 01:12:41,490 --> 01:12:44,220 Get through the numbers and I’m doing this crazy number 1493 01:12:44,227 --> 01:12:46,967 with all the boys and my shoe pops off. 1494 01:12:50,933 --> 01:12:52,768 Then we were supposed to go right from that 1495 01:12:52,768 --> 01:12:54,168 into a number with Dean. 1496 01:12:54,170 --> 01:12:55,070 (audience applause) 1497 01:12:55,071 --> 01:12:56,739 ‐ Oh thank you Sir Galahad. 1498 01:12:56,739 --> 01:12:57,569 ‐ Florence? 1499 01:12:57,573 --> 01:12:58,808 ‐ Yessir, Dean? 1500 01:12:58,808 --> 01:12:59,868 ‐ I know you’ve got a sore toe but... 1501 01:12:59,876 --> 01:13:01,377 (laughs) 1502 01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:04,747 ‐ One thing I’d learned about Dean, he’d love spontaneity. 1503 01:13:04,747 --> 01:13:09,077 ♪ It’s called Hernando’s Hideaway. Ole! ♪ 1504 01:13:09,085 --> 01:13:12,088 And he just decided to do a pratfall. 1505 01:13:12,088 --> 01:13:14,918 ♪ Like a flower bending in the breeze ♪ 1506 01:13:14,924 --> 01:13:18,461 (audience laughs) 1507 01:13:18,461 --> 01:13:22,098 We wound up on the floor, we sang 1508 01:13:22,098 --> 01:13:26,168 ♪ I’m in heaven 1509 01:13:26,168 --> 01:13:31,168 ♪ And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak ♪ 1510 01:13:32,341 --> 01:13:35,511 It was really a high point of the show 1511 01:13:35,511 --> 01:13:38,080 and people still talk about that. 1512 01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:43,080 (Christmas music) 1513 01:13:48,157 --> 01:13:49,917 ‐ Dean had a great relationship with Christmas. 1514 01:13:51,327 --> 01:13:53,262 One of the reasons that Dean’s Christmas show 1515 01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:55,432 was so wonderful is the happiness in it. 1516 01:13:56,933 --> 01:13:59,101 There’s almost not a year goes by 1517 01:13:59,101 --> 01:14:01,170 when I don’t, around Christmas time, 1518 01:14:01,170 --> 01:14:05,640 put in my bootleg copy of "The Dean Martin Christmas Show." 1519 01:14:07,343 --> 01:14:08,843 ‐ Around Christmas time 1520 01:14:08,844 --> 01:14:11,213 Dad was always thinking about Steubenville, Ohio. 1521 01:14:11,213 --> 01:14:13,582 ‐ [Dean] And I’d like to start by telling all you kids 1522 01:14:13,582 --> 01:14:16,952 in Steubenville, Ohio, at the St. John’s Hospital, 1523 01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:19,722 to keep a sharp eye out for Santa, 1524 01:14:19,722 --> 01:14:22,358 ’cause he’s on his way with lots of gifts for you. 1525 01:14:22,358 --> 01:14:23,958 ‐ There was one Christmas show 1526 01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,860 and everybody brought their kids. 1527 01:14:26,862 --> 01:14:28,831 ‐ All these children belong to the people 1528 01:14:28,831 --> 01:14:31,467 who work on my show. 1529 01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:34,967 Thank you sweetheart, and they’re just like family to me, 1530 01:14:34,971 --> 01:14:36,501 so I invited... 1531 01:14:36,505 --> 01:14:39,742 ‐ Christmas was back home, it was the family, 1532 01:14:39,742 --> 01:14:42,611 and it was a very important part of the year. 1533 01:14:42,611 --> 01:14:44,541 ‐ Do you know who I am? 1534 01:14:45,514 --> 01:14:46,682 Who? ‐ Dean Martin. 1535 01:14:46,682 --> 01:14:47,512 ‐ Dean Martin? 1536 01:14:48,517 --> 01:14:50,577 I’m glad I found that out. 1537 01:14:52,054 --> 01:14:55,324 ‐ Christmas comes along and you hear a Dean Martin song, 1538 01:14:55,324 --> 01:14:57,093 it really is Christmas. 1539 01:14:57,093 --> 01:14:58,893 ♪ Oh, the world is your snowball ♪ 1540 01:14:58,894 --> 01:15:02,231 ♪ See how it grows, see how it goes ♪ 1541 01:15:02,231 --> 01:15:03,761 ♪ Whenever it snows 1542 01:15:03,766 --> 01:15:06,902 ‐ Dean recorded one of the landmark Christmas albums 1543 01:15:06,902 --> 01:15:08,272 in 1966. 1544 01:15:10,106 --> 01:15:12,608 His Christmas record is still as popular 1545 01:15:12,608 --> 01:15:13,968 as it was back then. 1546 01:15:17,113 --> 01:15:20,913 ‐ [ Neil] In 1967, they decided to bring the Sinatra family 1547 01:15:20,916 --> 01:15:22,286 and Dean’s family in. 1548 01:15:24,453 --> 01:15:25,488 It was a very interesting time 1549 01:15:25,488 --> 01:15:26,988 because all the kids were there. 1550 01:15:26,989 --> 01:15:29,819 A lot of them haven’t been on camera a lot. 1551 01:15:29,825 --> 01:15:31,694 ‐ And we did a whole Christmas medley 1552 01:15:31,694 --> 01:15:33,362 with the entire families. 1553 01:15:33,362 --> 01:15:35,962 ‐ It was fun to be with everybody and so we all did duets. 1554 01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:41,670 Frank Jr. and Dean Jr. and Dad and Frank did their number. 1555 01:15:41,670 --> 01:15:43,170 ♪ To your kids 1556 01:15:43,172 --> 01:15:45,272 ♪ You say little, they say little, your thumbs twiddle ♪ 1557 01:15:45,274 --> 01:15:49,714 Gail and Nancy and Dad and Frank they did their numbers. 1558 01:15:53,115 --> 01:15:56,752 Tina Sinatra and I we did "doe a deer" with Frank and Dad 1559 01:15:56,752 --> 01:15:57,882 which was really fun. 1560 01:15:57,887 --> 01:15:59,522 ♪ That will bring us back to 1561 01:15:59,522 --> 01:16:03,322 ♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer 1562 01:16:03,325 --> 01:16:05,361 ‐ It was well, well‐received by the public. 1563 01:16:05,361 --> 01:16:09,231 The public got to finally see Dean’s family 1564 01:16:09,231 --> 01:16:10,800 and got to see Frank’s family. 1565 01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:15,800 ♪ Silent night, holy night 1566 01:16:17,106 --> 01:16:19,675 ‐ That moment in American pop culture 1567 01:16:19,675 --> 01:16:22,478 is really a classic moment. 1568 01:16:22,478 --> 01:16:25,478 All we need to do is look at Dean and Christmas 1569 01:16:25,481 --> 01:16:28,951 to appreciate how much he valued family. 1570 01:16:28,951 --> 01:16:30,181 ‐ It’s the time of the year when 1571 01:16:30,186 --> 01:16:32,788 old friends and family get together. 1572 01:16:32,788 --> 01:16:36,018 Sure gives me a warm feeling to be able to share Christmas 1573 01:16:36,025 --> 01:16:38,260 with my family and such good friends 1574 01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:40,360 as Frank and his family. 1575 01:16:40,362 --> 01:16:43,899 From all of us to you and your loved ones. 1576 01:16:43,899 --> 01:16:45,129 Merry, merry Christmas. 1577 01:16:48,003 --> 01:16:51,503 ‐ Back when "The Dean Martin Show" was starting in ’65, ’66 1578 01:16:51,507 --> 01:16:55,377 ♪ You’re nobody ’til somebody loves you ♪ 1579 01:16:55,377 --> 01:16:57,737 Dean was at the height of his career. 1580 01:16:57,746 --> 01:17:02,518 ‐ I’m gonna blow up, let me out of here. I’m cracking. 1581 01:17:02,518 --> 01:17:06,918 ‐ The TV show was number one, his records were soaring. 1582 01:17:06,922 --> 01:17:09,792 ♪ Everybody 1583 01:17:09,792 --> 01:17:13,762 ♪ loves somebody sometime 1584 01:17:13,762 --> 01:17:17,099 He just put the Beatles out of number one position 1585 01:17:17,099 --> 01:17:18,599 with "Everybody Loves Somebody." 1586 01:17:20,636 --> 01:17:22,176 His movies were taking off. 1587 01:17:23,739 --> 01:17:28,039 He worked, and he worked constantly, but then Dean’s mother, 1588 01:17:30,679 --> 01:17:34,249 Dean’s father and Dean’s brother Bill 1589 01:17:35,684 --> 01:17:38,554 passed away within the same year and a half of each other. 1590 01:17:41,290 --> 01:17:44,660 I really don’t think he had the time to mourn 1591 01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:47,660 the loss of his family, his mother, his father, his brother. 1592 01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:53,169 ‐ I couldn’t believe I was asked 1593 01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:56,139 to be on "The Dean Martin Show." 1594 01:17:57,606 --> 01:18:01,376 And after the show I went out into the dark NBC parking lot 1595 01:18:01,377 --> 01:18:03,979 and I saw him get into his limousine. 1596 01:18:03,979 --> 01:18:08,979 As he came by I could just see him in the backseat, 1597 01:18:08,984 --> 01:18:10,719 slumped, 1598 01:18:10,719 --> 01:18:15,719 looking quite sad, and I waved to him, he waved back, 1599 01:18:16,892 --> 01:18:19,592 I thought this is... this is show business. 1600 01:18:19,595 --> 01:18:24,265 Poor man gave everything in that performance tonight. 1601 01:18:24,266 --> 01:18:28,571 Seeing him slumped in the back of a dark limousine 1602 01:18:28,571 --> 01:18:32,971 on a dark night looking very unhappy 1603 01:18:32,975 --> 01:18:37,545 is unfortunately the image that remains with me. 1604 01:18:44,620 --> 01:18:46,689 ‐ One beautiful thing about our business is 1605 01:18:46,689 --> 01:18:48,657 that we get to come to Hollywood 1606 01:18:48,657 --> 01:18:50,657 and we could be who we wanna be. 1607 01:18:50,659 --> 01:18:53,029 ‐ Oh, I’m happy you all tuned in tonight. 1608 01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:56,660 ‐ But who you are is always who you are. 1609 01:18:56,665 --> 01:18:58,734 You can never leave yourself 1610 01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:00,404 ’cause yourself is within you. 1611 01:19:01,870 --> 01:19:05,940 No matter how great Dean Martin became 1612 01:19:05,941 --> 01:19:09,241 the child in him remained. 1613 01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:12,581 That child could be smothered by other things 1614 01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:13,981 as you live through life, 1615 01:19:13,983 --> 01:19:16,983 but eventually like that same blade of grass 1616 01:19:16,986 --> 01:19:18,554 that grows through the concrete 1617 01:19:18,554 --> 01:19:21,054 that child will come back up and show itself. 1618 01:19:23,993 --> 01:19:26,693 ‐ [Jeanne] He just didn’t talk, what can I tell you? 1619 01:19:35,704 --> 01:19:37,973 ‐ Jeanne said of Dean, 1620 01:19:37,973 --> 01:19:40,743 she was married to the guy for two decades, 1621 01:19:40,743 --> 01:19:44,079 she had three kids with him, she never knew him. 1622 01:19:44,079 --> 01:19:46,509 She tried to, she thought she could fix him, 1623 01:19:46,515 --> 01:19:49,084 she thought she could make him less distant, 1624 01:19:49,084 --> 01:19:50,454 and it just never happened. 1625 01:19:52,955 --> 01:19:54,490 ‐ One day we came to work 1626 01:19:54,490 --> 01:19:56,759 and saw the headlines in the LA Times 1627 01:19:56,759 --> 01:20:00,359 that Jeanne was divorcing him, it was a shock to all of us 1628 01:20:00,362 --> 01:20:02,202 we had no idea that was gonna happen. 1629 01:20:04,533 --> 01:20:07,870 ‐ The way she handled it, that’s how we all handled it. 1630 01:20:07,870 --> 01:20:10,800 It was okay, don’t be mad at your father, 1631 01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:13,509 don’t put him down, don’t badmouth Cathy, 1632 01:20:13,509 --> 01:20:15,309 don’t badmouth anybody. 1633 01:20:15,311 --> 01:20:20,311 It’s just, take care of it with elegance and class. 1634 01:20:21,183 --> 01:20:21,883 I couldn’t understand it. 1635 01:20:25,187 --> 01:20:27,217 I was gonna say something but I’m not gonna say it. 1636 01:20:29,358 --> 01:20:31,958 ‐ There’s a line in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, 1637 01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,590 "The grief that does not speak, 1638 01:20:34,596 --> 01:20:37,966 whispers over the fraught heart and bids it break." 1639 01:20:39,868 --> 01:20:44,838 Grief that you hold on to, it wants to get out 1640 01:20:46,642 --> 01:20:48,512 and so it breaks the heart to get out. 1641 01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:52,648 Dean had a hit in like ’70. 1642 01:20:52,648 --> 01:20:57,248 And it was a kind of very sentimental song 1643 01:20:57,252 --> 01:21:00,222 called "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife." 1644 01:21:00,222 --> 01:21:05,232 ♪ Eyes that show some disappointment ♪ 1645 01:21:06,995 --> 01:21:08,263 ♪ And there’s been 1646 01:21:08,263 --> 01:21:11,900 The loss of Jeanne which was his fault, 1647 01:21:11,900 --> 01:21:14,970 he’s deeply deeply grieving that. 1648 01:21:14,970 --> 01:21:19,970 ♪ She’s the foundation I lean on ♪ 1649 01:21:22,111 --> 01:21:27,081 ♪ My woman, my woman, my wife 1650 01:21:32,388 --> 01:21:36,188 (applause) 1651 01:21:36,191 --> 01:21:40,291 ‐ On Dean’s variety show, he had this wonderful moment 1652 01:21:40,295 --> 01:21:41,897 of the show, totally spontaneous. 1653 01:21:41,897 --> 01:21:44,997 ‐ Dare I? Dare I open it? 1654 01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:46,769 ‐ He would go over and open the door. 1655 01:21:46,769 --> 01:21:48,029 ‐ If there’s a bear in here... 1656 01:21:49,138 --> 01:21:51,068 (applause) 1657 01:21:51,073 --> 01:21:52,943 ‐ He did not know who was gonna be there. 1658 01:21:53,842 --> 01:21:55,212 Jimmy Durante could come out. 1659 01:21:56,645 --> 01:21:58,747 Whoever could come out. Red Buttons could come out 1660 01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:00,247 or Bob Newhart could come out. 1661 01:22:01,717 --> 01:22:04,086 And I’d always been hoping, oh I’d hope, open the door, 1662 01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:05,854 if only Jerry Lewis would come out. 1663 01:22:05,854 --> 01:22:09,024 ‐ Jer Bear walks through there, I’m quittin’. 1664 01:22:09,024 --> 01:22:11,693 ‐ Of course it never happened in all those years. 1665 01:22:11,693 --> 01:22:12,528 ‐ You all will? 1666 01:22:12,528 --> 01:22:13,828 (laughs) 1667 01:22:16,098 --> 01:22:19,298 ‐ [James] After the breakup in July of 1956, 1668 01:22:19,301 --> 01:22:21,731 they were still very thoroughly broken up. 1669 01:22:21,737 --> 01:22:24,406 ‐ We were not allowed to talk about Dean at home, 1670 01:22:24,406 --> 01:22:25,974 that was a hot button issue. 1671 01:22:25,974 --> 01:22:29,812 And if we mentioned anything in specific about him, 1672 01:22:29,812 --> 01:22:31,782 it would not be appreciated. 1673 01:22:33,649 --> 01:22:36,079 ‐ My dad didn’t talk about Jerry, 1674 01:22:36,084 --> 01:22:38,353 he just didn’t wanna hear his name anymore. 1675 01:22:38,353 --> 01:22:42,057 Don’t talk to me about Jerry Lewis, that’s done. 1676 01:22:42,057 --> 01:22:44,257 ‐ They were very much a thing of the past 1677 01:22:44,259 --> 01:22:47,559 until Labor Day Telethon in 1976. 1678 01:22:50,399 --> 01:22:54,729 ‐ The Telethon was the Labor Day 20 and a half hour show 1679 01:22:54,736 --> 01:22:57,639 to benefit Muscular Dystrophy Association. 1680 01:22:57,639 --> 01:22:59,408 ‐ It’s sitting there, is that the way it’s gonna stay? 1681 01:22:59,408 --> 01:23:01,508 ‐ [James] Jerry was the emcee every year 1682 01:23:01,510 --> 01:23:03,679 and made hundreds of millions of dollars 1683 01:23:03,679 --> 01:23:05,848 for the MDA, muscular dystrophy. 1684 01:23:05,848 --> 01:23:09,148 ‐ I was a big fan I used to watch Telethon every year. 1685 01:23:10,853 --> 01:23:12,523 It was a major event back then. 1686 01:23:14,056 --> 01:23:15,357 Every star in the business 1687 01:23:15,357 --> 01:23:17,087 was clamoring to be on the show. 1688 01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:20,260 ‐ Come on, now. 1689 01:23:20,262 --> 01:23:25,202 ‐ So in 1976, Frank was going to be on the Telethon. 1690 01:23:28,070 --> 01:23:30,470 ‐ Sinatra takes it upon himself 1691 01:23:30,472 --> 01:23:33,172 that he’s going to reunite them at the Telethon. 1692 01:23:33,175 --> 01:23:35,511 ‐ And that’s when Frank said to Dean, 1693 01:23:35,511 --> 01:23:36,811 "I’m gonna bring you on." 1694 01:23:38,747 --> 01:23:41,407 ‐ [Tony O.] At first Dean thought he was pulling his leg 1695 01:23:41,416 --> 01:23:44,056 but Frank had a very persuasive way about him. 1696 01:23:46,655 --> 01:23:48,055 ‐ I was 20 years old. 1697 01:23:49,391 --> 01:23:52,931 My father had made me Assistant Production Manager. 1698 01:23:54,363 --> 01:23:57,363 Mr. Sinatra had a mobile trailer and my dad had one 1699 01:23:57,366 --> 01:24:02,104 and as I was walking around, Mr. Sinatra’s trailer 1700 01:24:02,104 --> 01:24:05,004 had the curtains open about this much 1701 01:24:05,007 --> 01:24:09,847 and when I looked in, I saw the most beautiful face. 1702 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:16,180 Excuse me, he meant that much to me, he really did. 1703 01:24:17,486 --> 01:24:20,396 And there he was in Frank’s trailer. 1704 01:24:21,857 --> 01:24:25,761 With that beautiful frost tip hair he had that year, 1705 01:24:25,761 --> 01:24:30,599 and a tuxedo, and so I actually freaked out, 1706 01:24:30,599 --> 01:24:33,068 being conditioned to feel that way 1707 01:24:33,068 --> 01:24:35,437 about Dean around my house. 1708 01:24:35,437 --> 01:24:38,297 So I ran to the production manager, Maury Stevens, 1709 01:24:38,307 --> 01:24:41,410 and I said, "Do you know who Mr. Sinatra’s got in there?" 1710 01:24:41,410 --> 01:24:43,940 And he said, "Yes, yes, relax." 1711 01:24:43,946 --> 01:24:45,686 He said, "Get a good seat." 1712 01:24:50,485 --> 01:24:54,222 ‐ Frank Sinatra made sure that not a whisper of this 1713 01:24:54,222 --> 01:24:55,722 would get out to Jerry Lewis. 1714 01:24:57,859 --> 01:25:01,029 ‐ Jerry was not aware, it was a complete surprise. 1715 01:25:01,029 --> 01:25:03,859 ‐ I have a friend who loves what you do every year 1716 01:25:03,865 --> 01:25:05,434 and who just wanted to come out. 1717 01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:08,874 Would you send my friend out please, where is he? 1718 01:25:10,472 --> 01:25:11,402 Come here. 1719 01:25:11,406 --> 01:25:14,476 (applause) 1720 01:25:17,145 --> 01:25:18,085 ‐ And I screamed. 1721 01:25:34,696 --> 01:25:36,832 ‐ I think it’s about time, don’t you? 1722 01:25:36,832 --> 01:25:38,400 ‐ And thank you. 1723 01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,570 ‐ I think it’s about time. 1724 01:25:46,241 --> 01:25:47,409 ‐ So how ya been? 1725 01:25:47,409 --> 01:25:50,039 (audience laughs) 1726 01:25:50,045 --> 01:25:51,285 ‐ It was wonderful. 1727 01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:54,549 ‐ So, you workin’? 1728 01:25:54,549 --> 01:25:56,749 (audience laughs) 1729 01:25:58,153 --> 01:26:01,323 ‐ And when I interviewed Jerry Lewis about that reunion, 1730 01:26:01,323 --> 01:26:03,558 Jerry’s comments that, 1731 01:26:03,558 --> 01:26:06,188 "It’s a shame it couldn’t last," Jerry said. 1732 01:26:07,562 --> 01:26:10,232 ‐ It never, never got to be as close, 1733 01:26:10,232 --> 01:26:12,502 nowhere near as close as it once was. 1734 01:26:13,468 --> 01:26:17,238 (suspensive music) 1735 01:26:17,239 --> 01:26:20,869 ‐ Dean was slowly going downhill physically. 1736 01:26:22,344 --> 01:26:26,814 I know Dean was hooked on pills in his later years. 1737 01:26:27,549 --> 01:26:29,579 ‐ How ya been, Joey? 1738 01:26:29,584 --> 01:26:32,454 (audience laughs) 1739 01:26:33,488 --> 01:26:34,848 ‐ Yeah, sure. 1740 01:26:34,856 --> 01:26:36,658 ‐ You’re gonna start already? 1741 01:26:36,658 --> 01:26:39,558 ‐ No I’m not starting, I’m almost through. 1742 01:26:39,561 --> 01:26:41,291 (audience laughs) 1743 01:26:41,296 --> 01:26:43,665 ‐ We thought that was making him not be as 1744 01:26:43,665 --> 01:26:45,867 up as he always was. 1745 01:26:45,867 --> 01:26:50,837 And we tried to understand that, but what could we do? 1746 01:26:50,839 --> 01:26:52,969 We didn’t know what hardships he had. 1747 01:26:52,974 --> 01:26:55,314 ‐ You wanna know why your monologue don’t go over? 1748 01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:57,641 ‐ It was a smash tonight. 1749 01:26:57,646 --> 01:26:59,516 ‐ Well, tonight I didn’t see it. 1750 01:27:01,783 --> 01:27:04,720 It’s ’cause he don’t cock his wrist and you keep... 1751 01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:07,820 ‐ We did several specials where we had to 1752 01:27:07,823 --> 01:27:10,759 resort to him lip synching to his records 1753 01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:12,959 because he couldn’t sing properly anymore. 1754 01:27:14,129 --> 01:27:16,729 Those were sadder years for all of us. 1755 01:27:16,732 --> 01:27:19,332 ‐ You could see his breathing was starting to get bad. 1756 01:27:21,570 --> 01:27:25,170 ‐ He was in a bit of a depression, that he couldn’t shake. 1757 01:27:26,842 --> 01:27:28,672 He and Jeanne were no longer married. 1758 01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:36,450 ‐ Jeanne, or I call her mom, kept the whole family together 1759 01:27:36,451 --> 01:27:39,020 but she still had 601 Mountain Drive. 1760 01:27:39,020 --> 01:27:42,357 He would drop by but it was Christmas and parties. 1761 01:27:42,357 --> 01:27:45,927 Craig and Claudia and Gail, they had all left the home. 1762 01:27:45,927 --> 01:27:48,357 Dino, well I always call him Dino, 1763 01:27:48,363 --> 01:27:50,098 but he came to me and he said, "Now from now on 1764 01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:52,628 don’t call me Dino, I want you to call me Dean Paul." 1765 01:27:52,634 --> 01:27:53,474 I said, "Okay." 1766 01:27:54,970 --> 01:27:56,900 But it had to be really hard on his heart 1767 01:27:56,905 --> 01:28:00,408 to always be in the shadow of Dean Martin. 1768 01:28:00,408 --> 01:28:03,578 He was not only my brother, but my best friend, 1769 01:28:03,578 --> 01:28:04,978 we could laugh together. 1770 01:28:04,980 --> 01:28:08,680 He’s Dean Jr. and I’m Dean with an A. 1771 01:28:08,683 --> 01:28:12,921 I was helping him with his lines ’cause he was acting. 1772 01:28:12,921 --> 01:28:14,151 ‐ Are you all right? 1773 01:28:14,156 --> 01:28:15,826 ‐ He didn’t limit himself to anything. 1774 01:28:17,626 --> 01:28:19,436 ‐ By golly he married Olivia Hussey. 1775 01:28:20,762 --> 01:28:22,662 She was in Romeo and Juliet. 1776 01:28:25,033 --> 01:28:28,003 ‐ They had a son, my beautiful nephew Alex. 1777 01:28:29,171 --> 01:28:33,271 During those years he was playing tennis. 1778 01:28:33,275 --> 01:28:35,677 He went into the Air National Guard. 1779 01:28:35,677 --> 01:28:36,907 He was flying everything. 1780 01:28:41,249 --> 01:28:43,449 On that day he called me and he said, 1781 01:28:43,451 --> 01:28:45,221 "I’ve got a new TV series." 1782 01:28:46,688 --> 01:28:49,288 I ran over his lines and he said, 1783 01:28:49,291 --> 01:28:51,821 "Deana, whenever you look up in the sky, 1784 01:28:51,827 --> 01:28:53,595 just know that I’m protecting you. 1785 01:28:53,595 --> 01:28:55,330 I’m in the Air National Guard." 1786 01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:57,630 And that’s one of the last things he said to me. 1787 01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:05,439 ‐ [News reporter] A search is underway tonight 1788 01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:08,170 for the son of entertainer Dean Martin. 1789 01:29:08,176 --> 01:29:10,445 Captain Dean Paul Martin was the pilot 1790 01:29:10,445 --> 01:29:12,280 of a National Guard fighter jet when it crashed 1791 01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,150 into a mountain east of Los Angeles on Saturday. 1792 01:29:15,150 --> 01:29:16,580 ‐ [News reporter] The Air National Guard says 1793 01:29:16,585 --> 01:29:17,853 Dean Paul Martin 1794 01:29:17,853 --> 01:29:19,693 was one of the best pilots in his unit. 1795 01:29:21,890 --> 01:29:24,659 ‐ We were all each other’s best friends. 1796 01:29:24,659 --> 01:29:27,859 When Dean’s plane went missing, it was just... 1797 01:29:28,930 --> 01:29:29,960 catastrophic. 1798 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:36,137 The night before, we were at Santana’s, which was our haunt. 1799 01:29:36,137 --> 01:29:38,567 He said, "You know I gotta be flying more. 1800 01:29:38,573 --> 01:29:41,910 Even though I’m doing more than the minimum requirement 1801 01:29:41,910 --> 01:29:43,778 you just wanna be doing it all the time. 1802 01:29:43,778 --> 01:29:45,608 You have to be focused on it." 1803 01:29:46,948 --> 01:29:49,718 ‐ Dino and his weapons officer in their fighter jets 1804 01:29:49,718 --> 01:29:54,088 suddenly run into a snow squall. They become disoriented 1805 01:29:54,089 --> 01:29:56,289 and they crash into Mount San Gorgonio. 1806 01:29:56,291 --> 01:29:58,460 They don’t find the wreckage for days. 1807 01:29:58,460 --> 01:30:00,560 ‐ My nephew, Alex, Dean’s son, 1808 01:30:00,562 --> 01:30:02,597 went to the airport with him that day 1809 01:30:02,597 --> 01:30:05,627 and saw all the planes leave and he said, 1810 01:30:05,634 --> 01:30:07,974 "But my dad’s plane didn’t come back." 1811 01:30:09,371 --> 01:30:11,971 ‐ [Alex] For four days, five days we waited 1812 01:30:11,973 --> 01:30:13,708 while they searched for the plane. 1813 01:30:13,708 --> 01:30:15,608 Eventually someone had to come and tell us 1814 01:30:15,610 --> 01:30:19,180 and tell my grandfather. When the high‐ranking, 1815 01:30:19,180 --> 01:30:23,018 from Edwards or March Air Force Base, came in and sat down 1816 01:30:23,018 --> 01:30:25,987 next to my grandfather 1817 01:30:25,987 --> 01:30:29,187 and said to him and the family 1818 01:30:29,190 --> 01:30:32,360 we were all around, "The United States government 1819 01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:35,930 is sorry to inform you that your son has passed away." 1820 01:30:37,699 --> 01:30:42,669 I remember the implosion of my grandfather 1821 01:30:44,072 --> 01:30:47,809 sitting in this chair actually, the sinking that happened. 1822 01:30:47,809 --> 01:30:51,479 That moment has stayed with me, 1823 01:30:53,114 --> 01:30:56,518 the impact of this, what this man has just said 1824 01:30:56,518 --> 01:30:59,888 to my grandfather has made a huge dent, 1825 01:30:59,888 --> 01:31:02,418 and this larger than life person has 1826 01:31:02,424 --> 01:31:05,724 shrank just a little bit. 1827 01:31:05,727 --> 01:31:08,129 ‐ We ran over there, everybody ran over there, 1828 01:31:08,129 --> 01:31:10,359 Sinatra and they were all there. 1829 01:31:11,700 --> 01:31:14,670 But it was a terrible time. 1830 01:31:15,804 --> 01:31:17,672 ‐ Dean we were all very saddened to hear 1831 01:31:17,672 --> 01:31:19,742 about the tragic death of your son. 1832 01:31:22,477 --> 01:31:26,007 ‐ When it strikes home... 1833 01:31:27,215 --> 01:31:29,855 That’s, that’s terrible. 1834 01:31:31,686 --> 01:31:33,126 Eats you up. 1835 01:31:34,456 --> 01:31:37,492 ‐ I thought man, this guy is just 1836 01:31:37,492 --> 01:31:38,562 broken 1837 01:31:39,661 --> 01:31:40,491 inside. 1838 01:31:46,201 --> 01:31:49,301 ‐ You have to believe that when his son died that was it, 1839 01:31:49,304 --> 01:31:50,804 because the sun goes down. 1840 01:31:50,805 --> 01:31:54,209 You just can’t have the same kind of life ever again. 1841 01:31:54,209 --> 01:31:56,739 To lose a child, I mean that’s definitive. 1842 01:32:00,181 --> 01:32:03,481 ‐ I give the eulogy at his funeral, everybody’s there, 1843 01:32:03,485 --> 01:32:06,855 Frankie is there, Frank Sinatra obviously, Rickles, 1844 01:32:06,855 --> 01:32:08,195 everybody was there. 1845 01:32:09,891 --> 01:32:13,761 ‐ The girls were pleased that so many people came. 1846 01:32:13,762 --> 01:32:17,602 Well at one point when they turned around, and Dean didn’t, 1847 01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,500 they saw Jerry come in after the service started 1848 01:32:21,503 --> 01:32:26,513 and slip into the back pew all by himself and very quiet 1849 01:32:27,642 --> 01:32:28,912 and never let anybody know he was there. 1850 01:32:30,445 --> 01:32:35,115 ‐ My dad was never a funeral guy, he hated funerals 1851 01:32:35,116 --> 01:32:38,119 but for Dean and his son he went. 1852 01:32:38,119 --> 01:32:41,219 It told that he felt real emotion at the time. 1853 01:32:43,425 --> 01:32:45,725 ‐ The things that Jerry did that were genuinely selfless 1854 01:32:45,727 --> 01:32:47,195 were few and far between. 1855 01:32:47,195 --> 01:32:49,195 But one thing he did that was genuinely selfless 1856 01:32:49,197 --> 01:32:51,833 was he went to Dino’s funeral. 1857 01:32:51,833 --> 01:32:54,202 Never told a soul that he was there. 1858 01:32:54,202 --> 01:32:55,702 ‐ That evidently touched Dean 1859 01:32:55,703 --> 01:32:58,373 and then they started talking again. 1860 01:32:58,373 --> 01:33:01,609 ‐ When they got home he went in the den and closed the door 1861 01:33:01,609 --> 01:33:04,209 and called him and they spoke on the phone. 1862 01:33:04,212 --> 01:33:06,782 Must have been a very touching conversation. 1863 01:33:14,122 --> 01:33:17,862 ‐ Frank talked Dean into that Together Again tour. 1864 01:33:19,027 --> 01:33:20,628 Part of the reason that Frank did that 1865 01:33:20,628 --> 01:33:23,198 was because he thought Dean needed to get out and work. 1866 01:33:24,399 --> 01:33:27,199 ‐ Frank was looking to relive those days 1867 01:33:28,570 --> 01:33:30,970 they lived in Vegas doing the shows together. 1868 01:33:32,107 --> 01:33:33,977 But Dean wasn’t feeling well after the shows 1869 01:33:35,410 --> 01:33:38,940 he went back to his room, to his suite. He was tired. 1870 01:33:38,947 --> 01:33:42,951 ‐ Frank makes a miscalculation about grief. 1871 01:33:42,951 --> 01:33:45,987 A lot of people think that the grieving person 1872 01:33:45,987 --> 01:33:49,857 needs to kinda get out, get back with the old friends 1873 01:33:49,858 --> 01:33:52,988 and get, and that’s a lot of times not 1874 01:33:52,994 --> 01:33:54,364 what a grieving person wants. 1875 01:33:55,997 --> 01:33:57,797 ‐ Frank was in a bad mood 1876 01:33:57,799 --> 01:34:00,768 and he was shouting at Dean from the wings. 1877 01:34:00,768 --> 01:34:02,968 They had some kind of an argument or some kind of thing. 1878 01:34:02,971 --> 01:34:05,001 In the middle of the night Dean got his private jet 1879 01:34:05,006 --> 01:34:06,875 and went back to Los Angeles. 1880 01:34:06,875 --> 01:34:10,712 ‐ Dean did not talk to Frank, Frank did not talk to Dean, 1881 01:34:10,712 --> 01:34:12,947 that’s how pissed off Sinatra was. 1882 01:34:12,947 --> 01:34:15,747 ‐ He wasn’t mad at him, he was disappointed. 1883 01:34:15,750 --> 01:34:19,280 He could never get mad at him. He was worried about him. 1884 01:34:23,324 --> 01:34:24,524 ‐ [Alex] People always talk about 1885 01:34:24,526 --> 01:34:26,394 how the last years were the lonely years 1886 01:34:26,394 --> 01:34:28,494 and how he was so sad and all this kind of stuff. 1887 01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:31,099 But, I know that he was surrounded by people 1888 01:34:31,099 --> 01:34:34,229 that loved and adored him so, so much. 1889 01:34:34,235 --> 01:34:36,437 He always came over for dinners or we went over there 1890 01:34:36,437 --> 01:34:38,797 for dinners and he never once said, 1891 01:34:38,806 --> 01:34:41,809 you know I prefer if you guys don’t come by. 1892 01:34:41,809 --> 01:34:43,809 ‐ Dean would frequent La Famiglia. 1893 01:34:43,811 --> 01:34:45,511 That was one of his hangs. 1894 01:34:45,513 --> 01:34:49,783 ‐ This is Dino Crocetti. Party of two tonight. 1895 01:34:49,784 --> 01:34:53,694 It was his office, his home. 1896 01:34:55,156 --> 01:34:56,658 ‐ He was so cute. 1897 01:34:56,658 --> 01:34:58,618 He could be sitting there and everybody catered to him 1898 01:34:58,626 --> 01:35:01,462 and people wouldn’t bother him, 1899 01:35:01,462 --> 01:35:03,732 but he felt safe and comfortable there. 1900 01:35:05,833 --> 01:35:09,103 ‐ Jeanne loved Dean to the end. 1901 01:35:09,103 --> 01:35:12,240 I would see them at dinner long after they divorced. 1902 01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:15,710 And I’d say, "Oh good, you’re both together, I’m so glad." 1903 01:35:17,111 --> 01:35:19,781 ‐ We could be a dinner at La Famiglia, and he said to mother 1904 01:35:19,781 --> 01:35:21,611 he says, "Well, what happened? 1905 01:35:21,616 --> 01:35:23,017 Why aren’t we still together?" 1906 01:35:23,017 --> 01:35:25,347 She says, "It’s because of you that we’re not, 1907 01:35:25,353 --> 01:35:28,189 no one else left you, you’re the one who left." 1908 01:35:28,189 --> 01:35:30,189 He had those double takes and everything. 1909 01:35:30,191 --> 01:35:33,991 And I remember that and I was a little upset. 1910 01:35:35,163 --> 01:35:36,803 ‐ [Jeanne] He just wanted to come back. 1911 01:35:38,433 --> 01:35:42,971 From 1980 on, we were as close as close could be 1912 01:35:42,971 --> 01:35:45,101 without living together. 1913 01:35:45,106 --> 01:35:48,176 ‐ Dean’s health was starting to take a turn for the worse. 1914 01:35:49,644 --> 01:35:51,613 It was the smoking. 1915 01:35:51,613 --> 01:35:55,683 ‐ He came in this one day, I said, "You’re not smoking." 1916 01:35:55,683 --> 01:35:56,653 He said, "No." 1917 01:35:57,785 --> 01:35:59,185 We’d been trying to get him to stop smoking 1918 01:35:59,187 --> 01:36:00,855 for years and years. 1919 01:36:00,855 --> 01:36:03,424 And I said, "When did you stop smoking?" 1920 01:36:03,424 --> 01:36:05,624 He said, "I don’t know, I just don’t want to do it anymore." 1921 01:36:05,627 --> 01:36:07,197 ‐ He was diagnosed with cancer. 1922 01:36:08,529 --> 01:36:11,559 ‐ It was happening for a while, he knew, 1923 01:36:11,566 --> 01:36:13,336 he didn’t talk about it with me. 1924 01:36:14,502 --> 01:36:15,902 He wouldn’t make a big deal out of it. 1925 01:36:15,903 --> 01:36:17,203 That’s not who he was. 1926 01:36:18,740 --> 01:36:20,540 So it’s Christmas and I’m thinking 1927 01:36:20,541 --> 01:36:22,410 what can I get for my dad? 1928 01:36:22,410 --> 01:36:24,840 We had everything. 1929 01:36:24,846 --> 01:36:26,414 The pasta fazool. 1930 01:36:26,414 --> 01:36:29,414 So I go, I go to the store I buy all the ingredients 1931 01:36:29,417 --> 01:36:32,287 and I hadn’t made it in, say, 30 years. 1932 01:36:32,287 --> 01:36:34,722 So I stood there in the kitchen with the big pot, 1933 01:36:34,722 --> 01:36:38,760 put in olive oil, chopped up an onion, six cups of water, 1934 01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,290 two cans of the Progresso cannellini beans, 1935 01:36:42,297 --> 01:36:45,066 just everything right in, salt and pepper, stir it, 1936 01:36:45,066 --> 01:36:47,268 and then the secret ingredient: 1937 01:36:47,268 --> 01:36:49,398 a little bit of cinnamon. 1938 01:36:49,404 --> 01:36:52,373 I made it and I put it into a Ball mason jar 1939 01:36:52,373 --> 01:36:54,873 with a red ribbon, went over to his house, 1940 01:36:54,876 --> 01:36:56,277 and he looks at it. 1941 01:36:56,277 --> 01:36:57,977 Now I have to tell you the look in his eye 1942 01:36:57,979 --> 01:36:59,979 was unbelievable to me. 1943 01:36:59,981 --> 01:37:02,050 He said, "Is this what I think it is?" 1944 01:37:02,050 --> 01:37:03,950 I said, "Yes, it’s the pasta fazool." 1945 01:37:03,951 --> 01:37:05,820 He said, "And it’s still warm." 1946 01:37:05,820 --> 01:37:08,990 A week passes by and the phone rings. I answer the phone 1947 01:37:08,990 --> 01:37:10,390 and it’s Dad. 1948 01:37:10,391 --> 01:37:11,621 I said, "Hello." 1949 01:37:11,626 --> 01:37:13,094 He said, "Hi, this is your father. 1950 01:37:13,094 --> 01:37:17,432 Do you think you could make that pasta fazool for me again?" 1951 01:37:17,432 --> 01:37:19,132 And I got chills because I’m thinking 1952 01:37:19,133 --> 01:37:21,703 this is exactly what my grandmother wanted. 1953 01:37:22,870 --> 01:37:25,170 And I would sit with him and we would talk 1954 01:37:25,173 --> 01:37:27,813 and it was just a fabulous connection. 1955 01:37:30,311 --> 01:37:33,351 It was the connection that my grandmother told me about. 1956 01:37:34,415 --> 01:37:36,255 So what was my dad’s Rosebud? 1957 01:37:37,352 --> 01:37:38,822 I think it’s pasta fazool. 1958 01:37:41,255 --> 01:37:44,495 He loved being surrounded by family. 1959 01:37:46,094 --> 01:37:47,894 They’d be comfortable. 1960 01:37:47,895 --> 01:37:49,130 He was safe and warm 1961 01:37:49,130 --> 01:37:51,960 when he was with his mother and his family. 1962 01:37:51,966 --> 01:37:54,076 It made him strong and he loved them. 1963 01:37:56,170 --> 01:37:58,470 ‐ Where somebody like a Kane 1964 01:37:58,473 --> 01:38:01,473 took this sort of Jerry Lewis route of saying, 1965 01:38:01,476 --> 01:38:03,745 "I will show the world." 1966 01:38:03,745 --> 01:38:05,945 Dean Martin did the exact opposite. 1967 01:38:05,947 --> 01:38:08,583 He said, "Well, I’m gonna try to replicate 1968 01:38:08,583 --> 01:38:11,683 that situation that I enjoyed, at my home, 1969 01:38:11,686 --> 01:38:12,920 walking around singing 1970 01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,620 with a bunch of crazy Italian characters. 1971 01:38:15,623 --> 01:38:17,863 I’m gonna replicate it in everything I did." 1972 01:38:19,427 --> 01:38:22,063 Time and again he makes a family. 1973 01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:24,833 Whether it’s Jerry Lewis as his brother. 1974 01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:29,570 The Rat Pack was a version of the dinner table. 1975 01:38:29,570 --> 01:38:32,940 "The Dean Martin Show" was a version of the dinner table. 1976 01:38:32,940 --> 01:38:36,140 The roasts was a version of the dinner table. 1977 01:38:36,144 --> 01:38:40,181 Down to the sad irony of the restaurant he hung around 1978 01:38:40,181 --> 01:38:43,121 and called La Famiglia. Family. 1979 01:38:45,620 --> 01:38:48,820 ‐ Christmas Eve, Frank and I got together. 1980 01:38:48,823 --> 01:38:51,523 Frank said I wonder what the dago’s doing? 1981 01:38:51,526 --> 01:38:54,236 So I picked up the phone, Dean got on the phone 1982 01:38:55,129 --> 01:38:56,829 and so Frank gets on the phone, 1983 01:38:56,831 --> 01:38:58,399 "Hey, dag, how you doing? 1984 01:38:58,399 --> 01:39:01,599 Okay, so you want to tell me a joke, really? 1985 01:39:01,602 --> 01:39:03,002 Okay, what’s the joke?" 1986 01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:07,769 And so Dean said something, and Frank said something back, 1987 01:39:07,775 --> 01:39:11,078 and then Dean said something back and Frank laughed, 1988 01:39:11,078 --> 01:39:15,248 and he said, "I love you, dago," and he hung up the phone. 1989 01:39:16,451 --> 01:39:18,119 And so when Frank got off the phone 1990 01:39:18,119 --> 01:39:19,649 I said, "What the hell was that all about?" 1991 01:39:19,654 --> 01:39:22,089 He says, "Can you believe this crazy son of a bitch?" 1992 01:39:22,089 --> 01:39:26,389 He says, "As ill as he is, he wanted to tell me a joke." 1993 01:39:26,394 --> 01:39:30,864 "What did one casket say to the other casket?" 1994 01:39:32,266 --> 01:39:34,936 And naturally Frank said, "I don’t know, what?" 1995 01:39:34,936 --> 01:39:36,376 "Is that you coughin’?" 1996 01:39:38,206 --> 01:39:41,816 And that’s the last time they ever spoke. 1997 01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:45,337 About 12 hours or so later Dean passed. 1998 01:39:50,084 --> 01:39:51,584 ‐ When he passed away at Christmas, 1999 01:39:51,586 --> 01:39:54,922 and I think he wanted to go at that time, on that day, 2000 01:39:54,922 --> 01:39:58,592 and I see his mom and the rest of the Rat Pack 2001 01:40:00,027 --> 01:40:01,287 and Dino. 2002 01:40:01,295 --> 01:40:04,265 So it was, it was quite something. 2003 01:40:04,265 --> 01:40:06,535 ‐ A terribly sad day to die on. 2004 01:40:07,735 --> 01:40:08,575 But... 2005 01:40:10,538 --> 01:40:15,038 nobody like him. And at... at his... 2006 01:40:15,042 --> 01:40:18,042 at the crest of his transit 2007 01:40:18,045 --> 01:40:20,385 across the skies 2008 01:40:21,582 --> 01:40:24,582 nobody like him before or since. 2009 01:40:27,221 --> 01:40:32,221 ‐ Our idols, our parents, they age. 2010 01:40:33,394 --> 01:40:35,794 But then something interesting happens. 2011 01:40:35,796 --> 01:40:38,006 The declining person dies 2012 01:40:39,867 --> 01:40:42,267 and they’re no longer the declining person. 2013 01:40:42,270 --> 01:40:45,700 In a weird way you get them back. 2014 01:40:48,876 --> 01:40:53,356 They return to being everything that they were. 2015 01:40:55,483 --> 01:40:57,453 ‐ Well, what makes a person an icon? 2016 01:40:58,786 --> 01:41:03,796 When a person transcends just their own genre 2017 01:41:04,659 --> 01:41:06,627 and they become someone that 2018 01:41:06,627 --> 01:41:09,357 people from different walks of life 2019 01:41:09,363 --> 01:41:11,863 respect. Of their art or their music 2020 01:41:11,866 --> 01:41:13,801 or their talent expression, 2021 01:41:13,801 --> 01:41:15,901 that puts them in an iconic stage. 2022 01:41:17,505 --> 01:41:21,042 Dean Martin was tuned into his art. 2023 01:41:21,042 --> 01:41:24,512 And no matter what he did, it found its way out. 2024 01:41:24,512 --> 01:41:27,912 I think that puts him in a unique, unique position 2025 01:41:27,915 --> 01:41:28,915 as an artist. 2026 01:41:30,318 --> 01:41:34,718 ‐ He had so much more talent and genius and instinct 2027 01:41:34,722 --> 01:41:38,592 and understanding, not only of the work he was doing 2028 01:41:38,593 --> 01:41:41,133 but of the world he was living in. 2029 01:41:45,733 --> 01:41:47,301 ‐ I hadn’t worked for Dean for a while. 2030 01:41:47,301 --> 01:41:49,401 And Dean called me up and said, 2031 01:41:49,403 --> 01:41:51,872 "Michael, I need security again." 2032 01:41:51,872 --> 01:41:54,408 I said, "Dean, I’m doing my own show now, I’m doing‐" 2033 01:41:54,408 --> 01:41:56,168 he said, "I know pally come on over to the house 2034 01:41:56,177 --> 01:41:57,979 I wanna talk to you." 2035 01:41:57,979 --> 01:42:02,809 And he sat me down and he said, "No matter how big you get, 2036 01:42:02,817 --> 01:42:05,086 don’t ever think you have the power, 2037 01:42:05,086 --> 01:42:07,855 ’cause if you do? The real power, the people, 2038 01:42:07,855 --> 01:42:09,991 they’re gonna take it away from ya. 2039 01:42:09,991 --> 01:42:12,591 I don’t even sing that good but the people love me. 2040 01:42:12,593 --> 01:42:14,662 And if they didn’t, I might as well have been a plumber 2041 01:42:14,662 --> 01:42:16,162 in Steubenville, Ohio." 2042 01:42:17,298 --> 01:42:20,728 He realized how lucky he’d been. 2043 01:42:20,735 --> 01:42:23,638 Whatever amount of talent he had, 2044 01:42:23,638 --> 01:42:26,198 it was the people that made him a star. 2045 01:42:29,744 --> 01:42:32,544 ‐ "If you agree that Dino lived to live on his own terms, 2046 01:42:34,915 --> 01:42:37,084 and if his triumphs were in the significant films 2047 01:42:37,084 --> 01:42:40,221 where he had allowed himself to take direction, 2048 01:42:40,221 --> 01:42:44,591 listen, learn, tremble and transcend, 2049 01:42:46,694 --> 01:42:49,694 then his second greatest trope after inventing himself 2050 01:42:50,765 --> 01:42:52,700 was convincing producers and directors 2051 01:42:52,700 --> 01:42:56,300 to let him play a character who sang and drank 2052 01:42:57,772 --> 01:43:00,742 and thought about golf more than God, 2053 01:43:02,176 --> 01:43:05,916 so that the actor and the part were entirely one." 2054 01:43:16,724 --> 01:43:19,294 (upbeat music)