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Release Date: 2002 Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sean Hayes
Categories: Movies, Slapstick, Biopic [feature] Martin and Lewis is a 2002 CBS TV film written and directed by John Gray, portraying the lives of the comedy team of Martin and Lewis.The film featured Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin and Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis.
Also featured in supporting roles were Paula Cale as Betty Martin, Sarah Manninen as Patti Lewis, Kate Levering as Jeanne Biegger Martin, Scott McCord as Abby Greshler, Steve Brinder as Danny Lewis, Conrad Dunn as Lou Perry, Bill Lake as Hal Wallis, David Eisner as Lew Wasserman, Sean Cullen as Jackie Gleason, Robert Morelli as Skinny D'Amato and Markus Parilo as Irwin Woolfe.
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Martin and Lewis is a 2002 CBS TV film written and directed by John Gray, portraying the lives of the comedy team of Martin and Lewis.The film featured Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin and Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis.
Also featured in supporting roles were Paula Cale as Betty Martin, Sarah Manninen as Patti Lewis, Kate Levering as Jeanne Biegger Martin, Scott McCord as Abby Greshler, Steve Brinder as Danny Lewis, Conrad Dunn as Lou Perry, Bill Lake as Hal Wallis, David Eisner as Lew Wasserman, Sean Cullen as Jackie Gleason, Robert Morelli as Skinny D'Amato and Markus Parilo as Irwin Woolfe.
Sean Hayes was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as Jerry Lewis.
When lounge singer Dean Martin (Northam) and burlesque comic Jerry Lewis (Hayes) clicked during an impromptu pairing in 1946, neither anticipated their unparalleled success as a team. Lewis was going nowhere fast with an act built around miming to records, while Martin was making a decent living as a crooner. Lewis had beseeched his agent to reteam him with the reluctant Martin; Lewis instigated their act and adopted the jaded pro as his unofficial big brother. Ever aloof, Martin is content to cash in on the LESS
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