| Dean
Davis and King Bennett
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| Dean Davis defined
Las Vegas lounge cool with his paperback mysteries starring King Bennett!
This guy hung out with everyone from the Rat Pack, to Elvis, to the Monkees.
And the women he was seen with...ooh, la, la! Hubba, hubba! He sold millions
of books, drove a cool car, and wrote the lexicon of slang for the tuxedo
clad jet set.Thanks to the resurgence of lounge music and the birth of
Internet auction sites, Dean Davis is the King of Cool once again! Not
to be confused with King Bennett, the detective in his series. He was cool
too, don't get me wrong...but Dean is the King of Cool and I'm happy to
see that his books are becoming hot again. Even though he's cool....Oh,
forget it!
Dean
Trivia:
Appeared in 19 movies: "Ocean's 11" (1960), "Pepe" (1960), "Blue Hawaii" (1961), "The Longest Day" (1962), "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), "Robin & the Seven Hoods" (1964), "Viva Las Vegas" (1964), "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966), "The Silencers" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "Head" (1968), "Patton" (1970), "The Boatniks" (1970), "Le Mans" (1971), "Cannonball Run" (1981), "Arthur" (1981), "Tron" (1982), "Strange Brew" (1983), "Bachelor Party" (1984) Has appeared in numerous TV shows (short list): Addams Family, The Munsters (the only man to appear on both shows), WKRP in Cincinnati, Baretta, The Monkees, Golden Girls, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Dean Martin Show, Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers, Peter Gunn, Cheers, Hogan's Heroes, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies. Has dated (very short list): Lola Albright (Peter Gunn), Ann-Margret, Kay Lynn, Dawn Wells, Debbie Reynolds, Dorothy Provine, Joan Blackman Awards: (2) American Sleuth and Mystery Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cluemasters Club in 1991. "King Bennett Day" was held in Las Vegas on December 12, 1965. Dean was awarded the key to the city by the mayor. In 1962 the Williams Pinball Company constructed a machine called "King of the Strip". The backglass featured a caricature of King Bennett driving down the Las Vegas Strip in his Plymouth Fury. A buxom blonde was seated next to him. You received a free game if you managed to hit the ball into an area called "the money shot". That term obviously didn't hold the same meaning back then as it does today. And, probably the weirdest Dean Davis trivia fact, during the live recording of Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done" for the album Harvest, Dean is the guy who coughs at the end right before the applause starts. He did it by accident when he drank from a glass he thought was iced tea but turned out to be 100 proof whiskey. Please check out the
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