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I agree.Publicity Department MCA 5>98 Madison Avenue New York 22, New York DEAN A R T I N Jerry induced him to let them go on as a double, and the team of Martin and Lewis was born?╟÷painfully* As Martin put it?╟÷"We laid the biggest bomb in night club history." But that was just their first night* The next evening they went on and ad libbed, and the audience loved it* A new chapter in show business opened* The team was just beginning to be talked about when Producer Hal Wallis caught their act at Los Angeles1 now defunct Slapsie Maxiefs night club* signed them to a screen contract and launched their picture careers in 19h9 in *lty Friend Irma*" Eight years and 16 pictures afterward, the team of Martin and Lewis was dissolved* The basic reason behind the split-up was the simple fact that the best associations can wear thin and that both performers reached the point where there were things they -wanted to do separately. With his first solo role?╟÷in MGM!s "10,000 Bedrooms"?╟÷Martin showed he could go it alone successfully* That trick turned, he promptly pulled off another one by switching from light acting to heavy drama in "The Young Lions" and "Rio Bravo," and he won resounding critical acclaim* The actor is married to diminutive, blonde Jeanne Biegger, a former model* They have two boys and one girl, Dean, Jr*, Ricci James and Gina. Dean also has four children by a previous marriage* The Martins live in a big Beverly Hills home, externally an almost formal English mansion, inside as informal and friendly as the people who live there* One of the features of the house is a large, elaborate game room, and in the (more) -E