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	Dean in the VERY early years.
	1951 PARAMOUNT PICTURES CONTRACT

Dean Martin in the Copa Room
Photographs by George Sidney

Opening night, March 6, 1957

L-R: Dean Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Benny. Backstage at Dean's solo opening at the Sands Copa Room, March 6, 1957		Jack Entratter & Dean, opening night, March 6, 1957
Backstage, Dean Martin's opening night in the Copa Room, March 6, 1957	Backstage, Dean Martin's opening night in the Copa Room, March 6, 1957	Dean Martin's opening night in the Copa Room, March 6, 1957 Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz & Jack Entratter at the front table
opening night in the Copa Room, March 6, 1957 Jack Entratter, Jack Benny at the front table; Debbie Reynolds to right

Dean & Friends at the Sands

Martin & Lewis. They played their last show together in the Copa Room in July 1956	Martin & Lewis.	Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, 1958
Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean in 1964	Dean and Frank. A Las Vegas legend. Dean's opening night, January, 1964.	Dean and Frank. A Las Vegas legend. Dean's opening night, January, 1964.

Frank Sinatra had been a part of a Hollywood drinking group that gathered around Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall known as the Holmby Hills Rat Pack. After Bogart's death Sinatra held court with his own friends, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Shirley McLaine -- the Clan. Dean Martin was not one to play the sycophant and although close to Sinatra, he was never dependent upon him. Dino never liked being "one of the guys" but he liked performing with Sinatra.

The Rat Pack came to prominence in January 1959: that year Sinatra conducted the orchestra on Dean's album Sleep Warm; the film Some Came Running with Sinatra, McLaine and Martin opened; and on January 28, Sinatra joined Dean onstage at the Sands for the first time. It would become a routine. And they would become legend in Las Vegas.

written by Peter Michel, Director of Special Collections, UNLV Libraries.

The photographs used on this web page are from an exhibit and are all from the Sands Hotel Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections

and may not be reproduced without permission. The collection was donated to the library in 1980 by the Sands Hotel through the office of Al Guzman, then Director of Publicity and Advertising. The collection consists of the files of Al Freeman, Director of Advertising and Promotion for the Sands Hotel from 1952 until his death in 1972. The Sands Hotel was imploded Tuesday morning at 2 am, November 26, 1996. The original exhibit was designed and written by Peter Michel, Director of Special Collections, UNLV Libraries.

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