Available on Paramount+, the comedy A Real Movie Crazed marks the end of the comedy duo created by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis that made an entire generation laugh!
Today we forget it, but Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin were one of the most successful duos of their time. In the tradition of Abbott and Costello (known in France as the two Nigauds), Martin and Lewis indirectly inspired the parody duo Franco and Ciccio in Italy.
The idea was a beautiful singer (the white clown, Dean Martin) and an unpredictable clown who ruins his slightest actions (August Jerry Lewis).
The duo worked together for ten years, with numerous films, television appearances and numerous stage shows in various cabarets and casinos. The duo had run out of steam, or rather, Dean Martin had had enough.
A Real Cinema Crackpot is their 16th feature film, and the recipe is still the same as producer Hal B. Wallis refuses to change it, and the reviews become quite heated.
Few feature films can feel Dean Martin’s fatigue. In Le Trouillard du Far-West we notice a certain detachment. Especially since some of the international promotion is mostly done around the one and only troubled Jerry Lewis (look at the French titles of their feature films to be sure) and the comic’s solo numbers in their movies are starting to make Martin get a lot. space.
On the set of A Real Movie Crazed, Dean Martin no longer talks to Lewis at all, who responds well. A comedian criticizes the best man for behaving unprofessionally without daring to say so. As for Martin, he tells his partner and former friend that he means nothing more to him “Just a Dollar Sign”.
After this last film, they broke up and did not speak for almost two decades. Jerry Lewis will become a star in his field, making his own films, and Dean Martin is a successful singer, in addition to being a recognized actor, who occasionally forms a new duo on stage with his accomplice Frank Sinatra.
At the latter’s insistence, for the American Telethon broadcast, Martin and Lewis meet again 20 years after their separation and in front of the camera, melting the audience that grew up with their films:
A true cinema nut and several films of the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis duo can be seen on the Paramount+ platform. Among the opus available you will find some of their best, artists and models, but also love, fun… and golf!
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