Top 10 Steve Martin Films November 19, 2009
Posted by Daniel Stephens in : Top 10s , trackbackSteve Martin was born in Texas, 1945. He quickly found a kinship with showmanship and entertainment by performing magic tricks, juggling, and playing the banjo to small audiences at Disneyland. Martin was, in his own words “born standing up”.
His first big break came in 1967. Girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”, submitted some of Martin’s work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams liked what he saw to such a degree he paid Martin out of his own pocket. Martin, along with the other writers on the show, won an Emmy two years later. Between the end of the 1960s and the mid-1970s Martin wrote for several comedy shows, appearing from time to time in some sketches. He was also performing his own material as an opening act for [Read More]
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