The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1977)

Movie: The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra

• Director: Greg Garrison


• Stars: Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise, Don Rickles, Ernest Borgnine, Flip Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, George Burns, Jack Klugman, James Stewart, Jonathan Winters, LaWanda Page, Milton Berle, Orson Welles, Peter Falk, Red Buttons, Redd Foxx, Rich Little, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Buzzi, Telly Savalas


• Release Date: August 10, 1977


• Run Time: 100 mins


• Genre: Comedy

From the beautiful Ziegfeld room in Las Vegas Nevada, Dean Martin welcomes some of the greatest celebrities from all over the world (all of them American). As usual the Roastmaster is the only one not to rehearse, and Sinatra helps him out with the auto cue. George Burns gets the first turn roasting ‘The Leader’ and settles down to take a little nap after-wards. See the honorable Ronald Reagan, then former governor of California and ultimate nice guys Jimmy Stewart & Gene Kelly trying to be funny and mean. This turns out to be impossible for both of them, so Jimmy reads one of his poems while Gene ends up showing old movie clips (that get so much applause you might think Gene and Frankie were dancing there on stage). They might as well have tried telling jokes, for none behind the dais dare to be caught with their mouth closed, or even smiling: they have to be grinning or falling over laughing all the time. Orson Welles especially looks like hes weeping.

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