Jerry Lewis SIGNED Autobio Dean Martin Comedy Team Sinatra Monroe 2005 1st

by Jerry Lewis

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Dean & Me by Jerry Lewis ,copyright 2005 1st Edition - this hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition. Dustjacket in excellent condition in protective cover Book inside is in very good condition - no writing nor torn or missing pages -- WONDERFUL EDITION !! Signed on first page "Jerry Lewis".....with Flyer They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer,

• Year: 2005
• Condition: Very Good

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