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    Publicity Department MCA 598 Madison Avenue lew York 22, New York DEAN MARTIN If ever a part and a player were made for each other, the role of Bama Dillert in the filmization of James Jonesf "Some Came Running" must have been designed with Dean Martin in mind. As the easy-going, shrewd but inwardly sentimental gambler, Martin gets a chance to show the full depth of his dramatic force and fashions a new triumph at MGM where, just two pictures ago, he established himself as a "single" in "10,000 Bedrooms*" His casting in "Some Came Running" follows his highly touted performance in "The Toung Lions" and "Rio Bravo" and caps a career that has caromed from singing to comedy to acting with a capital A* Dean Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on June 7e He was graduated from Steubenville High and, when he was twenty, moved with his family to Long Beach, California* Although he recalls being a "fairly cocky kid," with no lack of self confidence, Dean tried his hand at numerous jobs before he took up singing seriously* He was an amateur prize-fighter, worked in a service station, at a mill and for a short time as a croupier in a gambling house?╟≤ Like most young males of the period who could carry a tune, Dean did imitations of Bing Crosby and other popular radio singers, and developed a pleasant* easy style of his own* By 1<?M>, he was singing at the ?·00 Club in Atlantic City* On the same bill was Jerry Lewis, whom Martin had met several times in the course of their young careers* When the club owner found himself minus an act, Dean and (more) ' 1