Dean Martin: King of Cool

November. 14,2021

Rating：

7.8

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Biography Biographical Famous Singer

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.

Dean Martin as Self (archive footage)

Alec Baldwin as Self

Peter Bogdanovich as Self

Carol Burnett as Self

Bing Crosby as Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Angie Dickinson as Self

Jon Hamm as Self

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Reviews

Chirphymium

2021/11/14

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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StyleSk8r

2021/11/15

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Fatma Suarez

2021/11/16

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Ella-May O'Brien

2021/11/17

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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