Remembering Dean Martin and his Career
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011Dean Martin grew up in Steubenville Ohio, with the original name Dino Paul Crocetti. His parents were immigrants from Italy so Dean spoke only Italian for the first five years of his life. He played the drums as a teenager, took up a job as a boxer, and because he thought he knew more than his teachers, he dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. He had other various jobs such as a liquor bootleg deliverer, service station attendant, a shoe-shine boy, a store clerk, a steel-mill worker, and blackjack dealer in an illegal casino.
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