Dean Martin man, Martin spent a lot of time with his family; as second wife Jeanne put it, prior to the couple's divorce, "He was home every night for dinner." As Martin's solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack, so-called after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member (The Martin-Sinatra-Davis-Lawford-Bishop group referred to themselves as "The Summit"
David Winters (choreographer) others. Also that year he acted in "The Crazy-Quilt" by John Korty. In 1967, he received what he has called his biggest honour, his Emmy nomination for the choreography of the TV movie "Movin' with Nancy", in which he also acted alongside Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Lee Hazlewood, and Frank Sinatra. This was the first-ever Emmy nomination for a choreographer in the category Special Classification of Individual Achievements. His nomination led to the creation of the Emmy's Outstanding Achievement in Choreography award, for which he was nominated in 1970. It was also in 1967 that Winters began