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Martin and Lewis is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 24 november 2002 with Jeremy Northam
Martin and Lewis (2002)
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Add to a movie listMartin and Lewis is a 2002 biographical CBS TV film, written and directed by John Gray, portraying the lives of the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. The film stars Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin and Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis.
Also featured in supporting roles are Paula Cale as Betty Martin, Sarah Manninen as Patti Lewis, Kate Levering as Jeanne Biegger Martin, Scott McCord as Abby Greshler, Steve Brinder as Danny Lewis, Conrad Dunn as Lou Perry, Bill Lake as Hal Wallis, David Eisner as Lew Wasserman, Sean Cullen as Jackie Gleason, Robert Morelli as Skinny D'Amato and Markus Parilo as Irwin Woolfe.
The film is based on the book, Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) by Arthur Marx.
Hayes was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as Jerry Lewis.
Synopsis
When lounge singer Dean Martin (Northam) and burlesque comic Jerry Lewis (Hayes) clicked during an impromptu pairing in 1946, neither anticipated their unparalleled success as a team. Lewis was going nowhere fast with an act built around miming to records, while Martin was making a subpar living as a crooner, sleeping on his agent's couch. Lewis had beseeched his agent to reteam him with the reluctant Martin; Lewis instigated their act and adopted the jaded pro as his unofficial big brother. Ever aloof, Martin is content to cash in on the bonanza and continue his sideline in womanizing. But as Lewis assumes more control, Martin’s mistress, Jeanne (Levering), nags him to take more credit. From bistros to radio to television, the seductive singer and the wacky stooge click with audiences. As the act takes Hollywood by storm in 1949, Lewis becomes paranoid about Martin’s popularity; psychosomatic stomach pains become his way of grabbing attention. Handsome and effortlessly charming, Martin successfully launches a solo acting career, in part to escape Lewis’s directorial aspirations and oppressive neediness. When Martin is called on the carpet by his wife, Betty (Cale), he walks out on his family; his frustration and resentment at being part of a two-headed showbiz monster only increases. Engineered by managers and agents, the last lap of the Martin-Lewis partnership is a cheerless financial arrangement, and though each triumphs after the official split in 1956, neither ever recaptures the elation of their early chemistry.Actors
Jeremy Northam
(Dean Martin)
Sean Hayes
(Jerry Lewis)
Paula Cale
(Betty Martin)
Sarah Manninen
(Patti Lewis)
Kate Levering
(Jeanne Martin)
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