TCM Star of the Month September 2018: Dean Martin

Dean Martin and Deborah Kerr in Marriage on the Rocks (Sept. 20, 2:45 AM)

With Summer Under the Stars over for another year, we're back to the usual schedule of Stars of the Month on TCM, and this month we get the films of Dean Martin, who went for the easy paycheck in a series of light comedies even if he did have the talent to do things like Some Came Running (Sept. 12, 11:00 PM). Martin's movies are going to be run every Wednesday in prime time this month.

Martin started his career in a nightclub act with Jerry Lewis and eventually Hollywood would come calling looking for another comedy team. TCM is showing a whopping three out of those 16 movies they made together, all of them tonight as part of a night of comedies from the early part of his career. Next week it's dramas, then the Rat Pack-era comedies with Frank Sinatra, and finally his later career. So over the course of the month there's a little something for everybody.