In Breaking Walls episode 139 we spotlight The Martin & Lewis show, and pay close attention to Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe.

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Highlights:

• Capital Gains and Thanksgiving on NBC

• The Nightclub Act

• Opportunity Flops

• The My Friend Irma Movie

• Dragnet

• The Show Relaunches — Frank Sinatra Guests

• Marilyn Monroe Makes a Rare Radio Appearance

• Splitting, Then Reuniting

• Looking ahead to Bogie

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The reading material for today’s episode was:

• On The Air — By John Dunning

• Dean & Me: A Love Story — By Jerry Lewis

• Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself): The Story of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis — by Arthur Marx

• Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg

• Marilyn Monroe: The Biography — By Donald Spoto

As well as articles from:

• Billboard

• The Cleveland Plain Dealer

• LIFE Magazine

• The Los Angeles Times

• The New York Times

• Variety

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On the interview front:

• Jack Benny and Virginia Gregg spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear these interviews at SpeakingofRadio.com.

• John Gibson spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at GoldenAge-WTIC.org.

• Both Frank and Nancy Sinatra Jr. spoke with Larry King.

• Marilyn Monroe spoke with Dave Garroway for NBC’s Monitor in 1955.

• Both Martin and Lewis spoke with Cedric Adams for WCCO in 1952.

• Dean Martin spoke with Edward R. Murrow in 1958 and with Randi Oakes in 1984

• Jerry Lewis spoke with Sam Denoff for The Television Academy in 2000.

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Hen Ferchetan — By Avi Avital

• Memories Are Made of This — By Dean Martin

• Manhattan Serenade — By Richard Alden

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A special thank you to Ted Davenport, Jerry Haendiges, and Gordon Skene.

For Ted go to RadioMemories.com, for Jerry, visit OTRSite.com, and for Gordon, please go to PastDaily.com.

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Thank you to:

Tony Adams

Steven Allmon

Orson Orsen Chandler

Phil Erickson

Jessica Hanna

Perri Harper

Thomas M. Joyce

Ryan Kramer

Earl Millard

Gary Mollica

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Ray Shaw

Filipe A Silva

John Williams

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