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Show BY INEZ GERHARD WHEN DEAN MARTIN and Jerry Jer-ry Lewis (NBC Friday evenings,) eve-nings,) teamed up for the first time, at an Atlantic City night club, they were so unfunny that the manager warned them they'd better pick up fast or they'd be out of work. Jerry says they used the old formula "All you gotta do to get a laugh is kill yourself." While Dean sang, Jerry rattled !N& MARTIN AND LEWIS dishes, threw food, took up collections collec-tions among the audience. They insulted in-sulted the patrons, who howled with laughter and begged for more. That routine paid off; they have clicked in pictures ("My Friend Irma,") on the air and at night clubs, now make about $10,000 a week. Betsy Blair decided, when she married Gene Kelly, that her marriage mar-riage was going to be more important im-portant than her career. She was well set on Broadway, but she gave up the stage to be with him in Hollywood. So she's very happy over being signed for an important role in "Mystery Street," at the studio where he works. His next musical is "Summer Stock." Haide Goransen, the Swedish model whose picture was on the cover of a recent copy of "Life," has been deluged with movie offers as a result. Producers Robert Smith and Robert Briskin made plans for her to take a screen test in Stockholm; Fox and Universal Uni-versal executives also approached her. She says she'd like to come to Hollywood, but it must be on her honeymoon. Don MacLaughlin, "Dr. Jim Brent" on "Road of Life," wonders how he dared do it his first audition was also his first appearance in a studio and his first broadcast. And it was "live," heard by several thousand radio listeners. Betty Clark, ABC's 13-year-old blind soprano, has been the subject sub-ject of more than a dozen magazine maga-zine articles this past year, and has managed to mention her singing sing-ing idol in almost every interview. He's Vic Damone, once a Brooklyn Brook-lyn neighbor of Betty's. Vic and Betty are close friends and never miss a chance to boost each other's oth-er's talents. |
