Guest Burt Lancaster (Aired August 9, 1949)
On July 25, 1946, Jerry began a show business partnership with Dean Martin, an association that would soon skyrocket both to fame. It started when Jerry was performing at the 500 Club in Atlantic City and one of the other entertainers quit suddenly. Lewis, who had worked with Martin at the Glass Hat in New York City, suggested Dean as a replacement. At first they worked separately, but then ad-libbed together, improvising insults and jokes, squirting seltzer water, hurling bunches of celery and exuding general zaniness. In less than eighteen weeks their salaries soared from $250.00 a week to $5,000.00. For ten years Martin and Lewis sandwiched sixteen money making films between nightclub engagements, personal appearances, recording sessions, radio shows, and television bookings. Their last film together was "Hollywood or Bust" (1956). On July 25th of that year the two made their last nightclub appearance together at the Copacabana, exactly ten years to the day since they became a team.
THIS EPISODE:
August 9, 1949. NBC network. Sustaining. Dean's first tune is "Darktown Strutter's Ball." The boys visit the circus and meet Guest Burt Lancaster under the big top, where he's an acrobat. Jerry's a lion tamer and a trapeze artist! Burt Lancaster, Dick Stabile and His Orchestra, Flo McMichaels, Robert L. Redd (producer, director), Dick McKnight (writer), Ray Allen (writer), Mort Lachman (writer), Ben Alexander (announcer), Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. 29:39.
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