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Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on grounds of extreme cruelty (he was jealous of her rising career, she said): after six years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
PERRY COMO'S MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). With Crooner Dean Martin and Singer-Dancer Carol Lawrence. Color...
Stupid plays cupid for a whisky-throated crooner named Dean Martin, played by Martin himself in an orgy of self-parody. En route to Hollywood from Las Vegas, the swinger has to detour through the town of Climax, Nev. "The only way to go," he leers. In Climax his Dual-Ghia is sabotaged by a garage mechanic (Cliff Osmond) and a piano teacher (Ray Walston) who want to peddle their songs. Martin's only interest is broads ("If I skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with...
Dean Martin, 46, is a reconditioned crooner who looks like a Vitalis ad, but too often his behavior on the screen is just greasy kid stuff. He has a low flair for stand-up comedy and lie-down love scenes, but he tries so hard to be smooth that he mostly seems oily. What's worse, in recent years his style has been influenced by one of his best friends, and something like Sinatrophy appears to be setting...
...Crooner. At 54, she looks her age, with sunburst wrinkles around her boot-button eyes. But she wears her years with indifference. And age has very little to do with her appeal. She was 21 when she started and brought the house down with I Got Rhythm. But she was never a sex object. She was mostly the hearty hostess, amused by the raucous comedy of life and essentially detached. Her manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself...