Dean Martin: Cool as Ice

Rat Pack's fifth member Dean Martin is the exact person you will think of the moment you hear the word cool. He is not only potent at the record sales but also in the box-office and television. As an actor, he is a Golden Globe recipient for his performance in The Dean Martin Show apart from other awards from various award-giving bodies. He is the culprit of such songs that used as movie or tv themes such as "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano" and "Sway" To notice that he got the same voice timber as Frank Sinatra, it is because they are the best of friends.He teamed up with comedian Jerry Lewis and formed a dynamic duo that was called Martin and Lewis which stand for about 11 years and made about 16 movies. He gained international fame when he did The Young Lions but his most remembered performance is in the film Ocean's Eleven. He entertain household viewers via The Dean Martin Show. The show was renamed from The Dean Martin Comedy Hour to The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts. It created tv history as it features notable actors such as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, James Stewart, George Burns and Milton Berle. He spent his final years with grief for his son's death in a plane crash. That made his health to crumble until he was defeated by lung cancer on Christmas Day of 1995.