The playful personality, casual confidence, and smooth style of
Dean Martin are celebrated by friend and colleague Lee Hale in this
warm-hearted, delightful tribute. Hale worked alongside the beloved
entertainer as musical director and eventually producer for NBC's
The Dean Martin Show. For seventeen years, Hale brought Dean and
hundreds of other stars into America's living rooms.
Every chapter of this engaging book covers a year of Dean's
show, from the first season in 1965 when Hale was hired to find
ways to boost the ratings, through the ascent in the Nielsens and
years at the top in the late sixties and early seventies, and into
the final years and the show's end in 1974. The Golddiggers, the
Roasts, and the Specials round out this spectacular chronological
parade of hilarious skits, heart-stopping duets, and enduring
friendships. Backstage at the Dean Martin Show also features
anecdotes about the hundreds of stars who worked with Dean,
including: the Rat Pack, Johnny Carson, Ella Fitzgerald,
Ann-Margret, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Debbie Reynolds, Jerry
Lewis, Jimmy Stewart, Angie Dickinson, Bette Davis, and many
more.
Best of all, Backstage at the Dean Martin Show captures Dean's
spirit -- his mischievous smile and sly innuendo; the casual,
smooth way he glossed over his mistakes; his inimitable rapport
with both audience and stars -- and reveals the lost world of TV
variety shows.
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