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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Reunion Surprise At MDA Telethon

Martin and Lewis Reunion

Martin and Lewis were the hottest act in America during the early '50s, but the pace and the pressure took its toll, and the act broke up in 1956, ten years to the day after the first official teaming.

Dean Martin made a public reconcilliation of sorts with Jerry Lewis almost 20 years later. The occasion was Jerry's Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) telethon charity in 1976, when Frank Sinatra shocked Lewis and the world by bringing Dean out on stage. The audience erupted in cheers (and the phone banks lit up, resulting in one of the telethon's most profitable years) as Martin and Lewis hugged and smiled. Jerry Lewis brought down the house when he quipped to Dean Martin, "So, you working?"  [Doubleclick Arrow]

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