Profile
Dean Martin
Singer + Actor + Comedian
Male
Born
Jun 7, 1917
Hometown
Steubenville, Ohio
Died
Dec 25, 1995
Death Place
California
Genres
Country music + P...
Record Label
Capitol Records
Other Names
Crocetti, Dino Paul
Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th Century, Martin was nicknamed the "King of Cool" due to his seemingly effortless charisma and self… Read More
Romance
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Janice LyndeDated 1976
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Catherine HawnMarried 1973 - 1976
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Jeanne MartinMarried 1949 - 1973
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Jeanne BieggerMarried 1949 - 1973
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Elizabeth Anne McDonaldMarried 1940 - 1949
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Catherine HawnMarried
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Betty McDonaldMarried
Family
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Dean Martin
d.1995
parents
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GaetanoFather
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Angela Crocetti BarraMother
siblings
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BillBrother
children
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Stephen CraigSon, Age 70
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Barbara GailDaughter, Age 68
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DeanaDaughter, Age 64
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Ricci James MartinSon, Age 59
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Gina Caroline MartinDaughter, Age 56
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Claudia DeanDaughter, d.2001
News + Updates
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Some See Signs Law Schools Are Getting Serious About Reform Texas LawyerGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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2 Men Charged With Theft, Sale Of Military Property Las Vegas SunGoogle News - Aug 25, 2011
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Aggravated Sex Offender Registers With Enid Police Enid News & EagleGoogle News - Aug 24, 2011
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The Cinematic Magic Of Cirque Du Soleil's 'Iris' ReutersGoogle News - Aug 22, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Dean Martin.
CHILDHOOD
1917
Birth
Born on June 7, 1917.
TWENTIES
1943
26 Years Old
Martin famously flopped at the Riobamba, a high class nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, but it was the setting for their meeting.
1944
27 Years Old
Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year stationed in Akron, Ohio.
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By 1946, Martin was doing relatively well, but was still little more than an East Coast nightclub singer with a common style, similar to that of Bing Crosby.
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THIRTIES
1948
31 Years Old
The team made its TV debut on the very first broadcast of CBS-TV network's Toast of the Town (later called The Ed Sullivan Show) with Ed Sullivan and Rodgers & Hammerstein appearing on this same inaugural telecast of June 20, 1948.
1949
32 Years Old
A radio series commenced in 1949, the same year Martin and Lewis were signed by Paramount producer Hal B. Wallis as comedy relief for the movie My Friend Irma.
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1956
39 Years Old
The act broke up in 1956, 10 years to the day from the first official teaming.
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FORTIES
1960
43 Years Old
In 1960, Martin was cast in the motion picture version of the Judy Holliday hit stage play Bells Are Ringing.
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1964
47 Years Old
His signature tune, "Everybody Loves Somebody", knocked The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" out of the number-one spot in the United States in 1964.
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By 1965, some of Martin's albums, such as Dean "Tex" Martin, The Hit Sound Of Dean Martin, Welcome To My World and Gentle On My Mind were composed of country and western songs made famous by artists like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Buck Owens.
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FIFTIES
1969
52 Years Old
He was also briefly engaged to Gail Renshaw, Miss World-U.S.A. 1969.
1973
56 Years Old
Less than a month after his second marriage had been legally dissolved, Martin married 26-year-old Catherine Hawn on April 25, 1973. Hawn had been the receptionist at the chic Gene Shacrove hair salon in Beverly Hills. They divorced November 10, 1976.
1976
59 Years Old
Eventually, Martin reconciled with Jeanne, though they never remarried. He also made a public reconciliation with Jerry Lewis on Lewis' Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon in 1976.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1983
66 Years Old
On December 1, 1983 while gambling at the Golden Nugget casino in Atlantic City, Martin and Sinatra intimidated the dealer and several employees into breaking New Jersey law by making the dealer deal the cards by hand instead of from a shoe.
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1987
70 Years Old
On March 21, 1987, Martin's son, Dean Paul (formerly Dino of the '60s "teeny-bopper" rock group Dino, Desi & Billy), was killed when his F-4 Phantom II jet fighter crashed while flying with the California Air National Guard.
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1989
72 Years Old
They maintained a quiet friendship, but only performed together again once, in 1989, on Martin's 72nd birthday.
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1990
73 Years Old
In December 1990, he congratulated Frank Sinatra on his 75th birthday special.
1993
76 Years Old
Martin was diagnosed with lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993, and in early 1995 retired from public life.
1995
79 Years Old
He died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas morning 1995, at age 78.
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