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THE TRAGIC GURSE ON MARTIN AND LEWIS
DEAN AND JERRY HAVE NOT ESCAPED THE INEVITABLE HEX ON COMEDIANS
By ELIZABETH MacDONALD
It's a success story of course, the story of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. They've got everything most of us think we want, the fame and luxuries and adulation a laughter-hungry world has heaped upon them. They're right up there on top, the funnymen born with the gift of coaxing laughter to take the edge off other people's worries and responsibilities and troubles. And yet it's not a success story at all if you happen to be the sort of persons, like Dean and Jerry themselves, who count good fortune in such nonnegotiable securities as peace of heart and soul and mind. Then their story is a tragedy. For with all their luck, and they've had plenty of it, they haven't escaped the terrible jinx that invariably claims the comedian for its victim.
Show people know about that jinx. Ask anyone of them and they'll tell you that it's the clowns who lead tragedians' lives with the laughter they give others turning to dust in their own hearts. To them, who have seen the jinx in operation time and time again, Pagliacci isn't just a character in an opera. He's the comic who is tops on the stage or in movies or radio and television. He's all the funnymen whose antics have ever jolted you out of the jitters. He's Red Skelton, who has had more troubles in a few years than most of us are called on to face in a lifetime, what with his illnesses, operations and marriage problems, and Lou Costello and Jimmy Durante. And if you want to go back that far, he's W. C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin, whose troubles are no less real because they're mainly self-inflicted. To bring you right back to the present, he's Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, too. They're going to howl at the very (CONTINUED ON PACE 57)
Trouble and unhappiness privately stalk Dean and Jerry
Patti and Jerry Lewis. She has been of immeasurable help to him during his unhappy times.
Dean and Jean Martin have been on verge of separation.
Thinking up laughs for routines causes Jerry's insomnia.
^ Nothing bothers Dean. He's always relaxed and rested.
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