1. Dean Martin was 17 when he started singing in local nightclubs at his hometown and met Sammy Watkins, the bandleader of Cleveland.
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4. Dean Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year in Akron, Ohio.
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9. Dean Martin died of acute respiratory failure on Christmas morning in 1995, at the age of 78, in Beverly Hills, California.
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13. Dean Martin began his show business career at age 17, singing in Ohio nightclubs near his hometown.
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20. Dean Martin retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995 at the age of 78.
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21. Dean Martin had a minor hit single with "Since I Met You Baby" and made his first music video, which appeared on MTV.
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23. Dean Martin played a featured role in the 1981 comedy The Cannonball Run and its sequel, both starring Burt Reynolds.
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25. In 1965, Dean Martin launched his weekly NBC comedy-variety series, The Dean Martin Show, which ran for 264 episodes until 1974.
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29. Dean Martin was acclaimed as Dude in Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and singer Ricky Nelson.
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30. Dean Martin starred alongside Frank Sinatra for the first time in the Vincente Minnelli drama, Some Came Running.
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34. Dean Martin met comic Jerry Lewis at the Glass Hat Club in New York, where both were performing.
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35. In October 1941, Dean Martin married Elizabeth "Betty" Anne McDonald in Cleveland, Ohio, and the couple had an apartment in Cleveland Heights for a while.
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