Jerry obviously has a selective memory as he has forgotten the times he subsequently golfed with Bing, had dinner with him in London and was invited to play in the Crosby Pro-Am. Bing and Dean Martin also gatecrashed the Eddie Fisher show on which Jerry was guesting in 1958. Full details in Day by Day on the BING magazine web site.

Last edited by Malcolm Macfarlane (18/9/2013 8:33 am)

I agree Malcolm. Jerry Lewis like Mickey Rooney revised a lot of their history. Look at how the stories about him and Dean have changed through the years. It is interesting that someone took the time to put the clips together.

I liked seeing the clips from the Olympic telethon - I hadn't seen those before though.

I was fuming when I read Jerry's "love letter" to Dean AKA his book. He rewrote 90% of their history together. Dean was far from a saint, but Jerry treated him like dirt. That's OK. Dean made out pretty well on his own.

Last edited by paulmock (19/9/2013 10:05 pm)

I never took to the Jerry Lewis brand of humour. I found him self - indulgent and not funny at all. 

Why the split with Dean? I personally have no knowledge, but I am sure that Dean the singer was much the better for it, rather than with life as a straight man to Lewis. I think Dean Martin was a great singer and if he had taken himself a little more seriously could have been more of a competitor to Bing and Frank. 

The interview clips and the allegations made in them were totally new to me but in the light of what was said and the evidence quoted by Malcolm (who was being polite when he said "​Jerry obviously has a selective memory as he has forgotten the times - - -"  the interview was a self serving attempt to re-write history.

Bob Hope was correct when he said that Lewis took over the telethon. He was muscling in, and Lewis was probably right when he says Bing was offended. He thinks it was funny. It was not - it was self indulgent and clearly Bing was not having any of it. But Malcolm points out that contrary to Lewis's allegations Bing's subsequent actions show that he did not bear any grudge.




 

48blonde wrote:

 What was the real reason for the Martin and Lewis split?

 
One word...EGO!    Arthur Marx wrote a biography on them called "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime...especially himself!"

Thanks Richard, Paul, David and Anton! My favorite Crooners Mr.C, Mr.C and Mr.C! Crosby, Como and Columbo!