His manager Viner explained: "Dean loves to go out to restaurants. What he doesn't like is to be with a lot of people or attend parties. This reclusiveness may have started early. He was born June 17, , and his first five years were spent speaking only Italian, the language of his immigrant father. He was ridiculed in school because of his accent, which he finally lost.
In a rare, revealing interview with Oriana Fallaci in , Martin disclosed: "When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was bigheaded and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
He added: "Well, see, I'm shy. Always been. See, if I walk into a party, I sort of go in a corner, 'cause I don't know what to say to people. For a man who never had singing, acting or dancing lessons and couldn't read music, Dean Martin reached amazing heights in show business. He was modest about his achievements. But we crooners get by because we're fairly painless.
Martin got by with a minimum of effort. Like Sinatra, he detested rehearsals, preferring to rely on the freshness of his performance. His television show epitomized his style. I make it a point never to call him during the week for any reason. Martin practiced his songs, walked through one rehearsal of the show and retired to his dressing room until show time. His work time on the show was calculated at three hours. After eight years, the raggedness of the show began to tell, and his television career drifted to a close.
He remained a top performer in the Nevada and New Jersey casinos, but even there his unchanging act started to wear thin. Audiences became too acquainted his drunk gags, such as asking his pianist at the opening of the show, "How long have I been on? Martin married three times. In he married Betty McDonald; they divorced after nine years and four children. His second marriage, to Jeanne Riegger, lasted 23 years. In , Martin, then 55, married former model Catherine Mae Hawn, They divorced in His instructions for the champagne reception at the wedding: "I gave orders that no glass should ever get lower than half-empty.
After his illness on the Sinatra-Martin-Davis tour in , the singer stopped performing. He had had it all, and he seemed content to spend his last years alone. Jerry Lewis, who settled a longtime feud with his former partner in , was "completely shattered and grief-stricken" when he learned in Seattle of Dean Martin's death, said his manager, Joe Stabile. Lewis later flew to Denver, where he is appearing in the musical "Damn Yankees. Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping.
Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Among his comedic quotes about alcohol, Martin is remembered for saying, "I feel sorry for people who don't drink.
They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day. His marriage to Hawn ended in Martin suffered a tragic loss when his son, Dino Jr.
He retired from show business after a concert tour with fellow Rat Packers Davis Jr. Martin died of acute respiratory failure on Christmas morning in , at the age of 78, in Beverly Hills, California. Today, Martin is regarded as a legendary screen and stage performer, and is best known for his comedic partnership with Lewis, as well as for his participation in the iconic Rat Pack.
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