Dean Martin enjoying the pool at home with his children, 1958.
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Dean Martin managed to make not only a life, but an art, of doing what came naturally.Robert Lloyd, 1990
[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