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Growing up in Beverly Hills was “kind of like the Brady Bunch, it was quite something,” Deana Martin told Hollywood on the Potomac while in town for the National Italian American’s Foundation’s 41st Gala weekend at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC last year. She took us back to her earliest childhood memories and walked us through her life’s path to becoming a singer, actor, author, performer and talked about her 2005 book Memories Are Made of This and her just released album Swing Street.
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She also reminisced about the relationship between Jerry Lewis and her dad Dean Martin: “They were, for 10 years, the biggest, greatest comedy team ever. I remember growing up watching the Telethon, you know, with Dad and Jerry. Jerry’s a very dear friend of mine. Of course we stayed friends through the years. He wrote the forward to my book. We went and I interviewed him because I couldn’t write a book about Dean Martin without having Jerry Lewis in it. He’s going to be in the documentary, so it’s pretty exciting.”
Jerry Lewis, who died today at 91, called their relationship “lightening in a barrel.”
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Memories of The Rat Pack and the relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis:
