FLASH SALE!
WE DID NOT WANT TO SELL THIS! BUT EVERYTHING MUST GO!
DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS
MARTIN & LEWIS
1950 MOVIE CONTRACT
THE 1950 OPTION TO THEIR ORIGINAL 1948 DEAL
WITH WALLIS-HAZEN PRODUCTIONS ON THE PARAMOUNT LOT.
PRODUCER HAL WALLIS & PARTNER JOSEPH H. HAZEN
TURNED THE NIGHTCLUB ACT INTO MOVIE STARS!
CONTRACT SIGNED BY DEAN MARTIN, JERRY LEWIS & JOSEPH H. HAZEN…
& CROSSED-OUT SECTION IS INITIALED BY ALL THREE!
MARTIN & LEWIS WERE THE HOTTEST TEAM IN SHOW BUSINESS… THEY’D JUST TAKEN OVER HOLLYWOOD!
THE ULTIMATE HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA!
RECENTLY FRAMED & MATTED
UNDER PROTECTIVE MUSEUM GLASS
A TWO-FER—AUTOGRAPHED — AND INITIALED --
BY TWO OF THE BIGGEST STARS IN HOLLYWOOD HISTORY!
OWN A PIECE OF HOLLYWOOD HISTORY!
A MUST-HAVE FOR COLLECTORS
A MUSEUM DISPLAY IN ITSELF!
This collectible is DIRECT from the estate of NOLAN FINE, the National Basketball Association referee and avid art and Jerry Lewis collector, who passed away on September 3, 2016, at age 60.
SHIPPING:
Shipping in sturdy packaging via USPS Priority Mail for $25.00 anywhere in the United States.
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From the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, 3 Sept 2007:
...Nolan Fine is 51, a trim guy with close-cropped, graying hair who looks exactly like a retired pro basketball referee should. He spent 16 years with the National Basketball Association - he called fouls on Shaq and Michael Jordan - and has a massive NCAA championship ring from his years officiating college.
Fine's sports memorabilia collection: three items.
Fine's Jerry Lewis memorabilia collection: 400 items.
"You don't think I'm wacko," he said, a smile hovering, hazel eyes dancing, "do you?"
There are movie posters and scripts, a signed 1954 contract with Martin and Lewis ($205,000 for Dean, $295,000 for Jerry) and Lewis' cowboy boots, in not-so-Wild West hues of pink and turquoise, from the 1956 flick "The Pardners."
And Dean and Jerry figurines, a Dean and Jerry pocket watch ("It's stuck at 5 'til 3," Fine said. "I'm not sure if that's a.m. or p.m."), Dean and Jerry playing card sets ("Never been opened," Fine said, running a finger along the cellophane), Dean and Jerry cufflinks and puppets and coloring books and salt and pepper shakers.
Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis. They met in 1945 and debuted at Atlantic City's 500 Club on July 25, 1946; the team lasted ten years to the day. Before they teamed up, Martin was a nightclub singer, while Lewis performed a comedy act lip-synching to records. They performed in nightclubs, and, starting in 1949, on radio. Later they branched out into television and films. In their early radio days they performed as Martin and Lewis but later became hugely popular as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. These full names helped them launch successful solo careers after parting
Martin and Lewis were the hottest act in America during the early '50s, as well as the highest paid act in show business according to a 1951 Life magazine article the duo was featured in while on their most successful movie tour promoting That's My Boy. The tour was so successful, audience members would not leave their seats, so Martin and Lewis began doing "free shows" afterwards on fire escapes or out their dressing room windows, jamming the streets with adoring fans hoping to catch a prize – a hat, a shoe, maybe an autograph. However, the pace and the pressure soon took their toll. Martin usually had the thankless job of the straight man, and his singing had yet to develop into his unique style of his later years. The critics praised Lewis, and while they admitted that Martin was the best partner he could have, most of them claimed that Lewis was the real talent of the team and could succeed with anyone. Lewis praised Martin in his book Dean & Me, where he called Martin one of the great comic geniuses of all time.