Was Dean Martin an alcoholic

Answer 1

In my opinion yes. The story goes that Dean Martin played a boozer/heavy drinker in his stage shows and on TV just to live up to his Rat Pack image. The story also goes that it wasn't alcohol in his hi-ball glasses but apple juice and other soft beverages. However, the appearances on films and tv such as The Cannonball Run (1981) show a man whose face was prematurely aged and "puffy", with vacant looking eyes and out of sync reactions to other actors. Loads of my family are alkies and he just has the same traits. Having said this, barring Cary Grant, there is not one other person in the history of show business that I would prefer to be reincarnated as. He was at his height the coolest man on the planet (that includes Sinatra), and if he was taken over by the drink he still was at the top for 20 years and lived to a good age of 78.

Answer 2

No