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Nancy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra: An American Legend
Stoddart Publisning
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Richard Havers
Sinatra
DK ADULT
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Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Anthology
Hal Leonard
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George Jacobs, William Stadiem
Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
Harper Paperbacks
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Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan
Sinatra: The Life
Knopf
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Various
Down Beat: Sixty Years of Jazz
Hal Leonard Corporation
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Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
DVD
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Burt Lancaster/Montgomery Clift
From Here to Eternity (1953)
DVD
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Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
Guys and Dolls
MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD
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Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
Von Ryan's Express
20th Century Fox
DVD
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Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Louis Armstrong
High Society
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero
Ocean's 11
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Betty Garrett, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen
On the Town
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD
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Wynton Marsalis, Keith David, Duke Ellington, Branford Marsalis, Gary Giddins, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Stan Levey, Gene Krupa, Fats Waller, Harry Connick Jr., George Wein
Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns
Pbs Paramount
DVD
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra
Vocalist, Actor
(1915 - 1998)
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Frank Sinatra led a public life which was chronicled by marriages, divorces, love affairs, brawls, his son’s kidnapping, the Rat Pack, and his friendships with both mobsters and presidents. But with over 1,600 recordings and scores of films and personal appearances, he is one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th century. His career took off when he became the featured vocalist with first Harry James, with whom he recorded “All or Nothing at All,” and then Tommy Dorsey. In 1942 he began his solo career and was greeted by swooning bobbysoxers. His natural acting ability became apparent in 1945’s Anchors Aweigh, in which he also sang “I Fall in Love Too Easily” and danced (with Gene Kelly, no less). His health and personal life took a hit in the early ‘50s when he left his wife for Ava Gardner, suffered a hemorrhage of his vocal chords, and was dropped by his agent and studios. He staged a comeback in From Here to Eternity (1952), winning the Academy’s Best Supporting Actor Award. He continued his acting career—both dramatic roles and musicals—as well as nightclub appearances and recordings. His sides with Nelson Riddle were hugely successful, and “Ol’ Blue Eyes” developed an emotional maturity best illustrated in The September of My Years (1965). The number of songs that he introduced or that were written for him would entail pages, for instance “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” (1940), “Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week” (1944) and “My One and Only Love.” Just a few of the Sammy Cahn songs include “Come Fly with Me” and “All the Way” (1957), “Only the Lonely” (1958), and “My Kind of Town” (1964). Sinatra was honored in many ways for his accomplishments and his humanitarianism, culminating with a Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.
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