Long before Dean Martin joined the Rat Pack, he grew up in Steubenville as Dino Crocetti. Each year, the eastern Ohio city honors his Ohio roots with a festival. The city hosts Dean Martin ...

Dean and his first wife, Elizabeth, welcomed their eldest son, Craig, on June 29, 1942. Craig got a taste of his own Hollywood fame as he pursued a career as a producer and production manager.

Supposedly it was Elvis Presley who first anointed Dean Martin with the sobriquet “King of Cool.” The way Martin’s daughter, Deana, tells the story, she went to visit her father on the Paramount ...