Dean Martin enjoying the pool at home with his children, 1958.

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_{Dean Martin at home with his family, c. late 1960s}

_{Dean Martin performing with his son Dean Paul on The Dean Martin Show, 1968}

deforest:

Dean Martin managed to make not only a life, but an art, of doing what came naturally.

Robert Lloyd, 1990

deforest:

^{[Howard] Hawks says Rio Bravo is really Dean Martin’s picture … Its strong emotional content—the testing of Dude, its embodiment in the inwardness of Dean Martin’s performance, the sense that a human being’s value and dignity is at stake in every action, every moment, the testing of so much more than the mere proficiency with a gun celebrated in so many standard Westerns—scarcely requires comment. […] I would like to be able to say at this point that, had I been in charge of the Oscars for that year, I would have awarded them to Hawks, his film, his screenwriters, and to Dean Martin [for Best Actor in a Leading Role] …}

Robin Wood

Dean Martin on location in Acapulco for the filming of The Ambushers (1967)

Dean Martin, 1959

Dean Martin performing at Westchester Theatre, 1977

Dean with his daughter Gina, 1982