During her Hollywood career Davis dated many actors, including Clark Gable, Robert Stack, and Peter Lawford ; she later called Gable the nicest of the stars she had met.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the legendary Rat Pack, so called by the public 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.

Peter Lawford was first told of the basic story of the film by director Gilbert Kay who had heard the idea from a gas station attendant.

Lawford was blamed for this, and Sinatra " never again had a good word for ( him )" from that point onwards.

Kelley also claimed to have interviewed Lawford on January 5, 1985, even though the actor had died in December 1984.

Prior to World War II, Lawford had gained a contract position with the MGM studios.

Lawford had become a major star.

They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born 1955 ), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born 1956 ), Victoria Francis Lawford ( born 1958 ), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( born 1961 ).

Lawford had difficulty adjusting to Kennedy's steadfast Catholicism and her family's larger-than-life image.

The most notable degradation can be seen when Fred Astaire revisits the ruins of a train station set that had been used in the opening of The Band Wagon two decades earlier, and when Peter Lawford revisits exteriors used in his late-40s musical, Good News.

" Lawford said that he had returned to Cuba six times in an effort to do just that " but as you know we have an embargo against Cuba, which is one of the greatest foreign policy tragedies in the history of the United States.

Long Lawford is a village and civil parish in the Rugby borough of Warwickshire, England, located just west of Rugby, in 2001 the parish had a population of 2, 831.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

Gambino was seen at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas on August 2, 1967, where he is supposed to have met Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, the group known as " The Rat Pack.

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans are recruited by Danny Ocean ( Sinatra ) and Jimmy Foster ( Lawford ) to rob five different Las Vegas casinos ( Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands, and The Flamingo ) on a single night.

When Lawford first told Sinatra of the story, Sinatra joked " Forget the movie, let's pull the job!

* Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop

In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart's death, that called itself " the summit " or " the clan ," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean's 11.

The 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and for a brief stint, Norman Fell.

Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy ( dubbed " Brother-in-Lawford " by Sinatra ), and the group played a role in campaigning for him and the Democrats, appearing at the July 11, 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

* It Happened in Brooklyn ( 1947 ) ( Sinatra, Lawford )

* Never So Few ( 1959 ) ( Sinatra, Lawford, and initially Davis, who was replaced by Steve McQueen )

* Ocean's 11 ( 1960 ) ( Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Lawford, and Bishop )

* Sergeants 3 ( 1962 ) ( Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Lawford, and Bishop )

* Robin and the 7 Hoods ( 1964 ) ( Sinatra, Martin, Davis, and initially Lawford, who was replaced by Bing Crosby )

It became the first film to feature all five main " Rat Pack " members: Lawford, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

Other members of the historical cast include mob bosses Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, Jr., and John Roselli, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, and J. D. Tippit.

Frank Sinatra used one in his Buick Riviera, Dean Martin in his Corvette, and Peter Lawford in his Ghia.

Joey Bishop ( February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007 ), born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb, was an American entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the " Rat Pack " with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin.

Among the galaxy of celebrities who frequented Ciro's were Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Sidney Poitier, Anita Ekberg, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, George Raft, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Judy Garland, June Allyson and Dick Powell, Mamie Van Doren, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Peter Lawford, and Lana Turner ( who often said Ciro's was her favorite nightspot ) among many others.

Don tries to change her mind and it looks as if he has succeeded (" It Only Happens When I Dance With You "), until Don's best friend, Johnny ( Peter Lawford ), turns up.

The wording in the image reads: " Owing to the great increase of my work, I have found it necessary to authorize two of my assistants ( Mr. Lawford and Mr. Wright ) to sign receipts for donations, if needful, in my stead .- Donors are requested, kindly to keep the receipts and to compare them with the " Supplement " to the Report, which records every donation received, so that they may be satisfied that their donations have been properly applied .- The " Supplement " is sent with the Report to every Donor who furnishes me with his or her name and address .- I would earnestly request all Donors ( even those who feel it right to give anonymously ) to put it in my power to acknowledge their donations at the time they come to hand ; and should any Donor, after having done this, not receive a printed receipt within a week, they would much oblige me by giving me information at once.

He met Valentine Lawford, British diplomat in 1938 and they would live together as a couple until Lawford's death in 1991.

" She would go on to appear with Sinatra and other notable guests such as Ella Fitzgerald, Peter Lawford, Hermione Gingold, the Hi-Lo's, Red Norvo, Nelson Riddle and his orchestra on the 1959, Frank Sinatra Show.

In the book, Kelley claimed to have interviewed actor Peter Lawford on several occasions including November 5 and 6 of 1984, even though Lawford lay on his death bed on these dates.

Lawford was the 2006 honoree for Women in Recovery at their Gala ; past honorees have included Jamie Lee Curtis, Angela Lansbury, and Anthony Hopkins.

" In a separate interview with the ABC, Lawford said Castro " got up at the end of the film and he said, ' You've made a great film, but you've ignored Cuba, now you have to make a film of what was happening here in Cuba during those thirteen days.

Other Kennedys who have attended Boston College include Kerry Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Christopher George Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former director of BC's Watershed Institute.

* 1924 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite ( d. 2006 )

In his memoir Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption, cousin Christopher Kennedy Lawford describes Kennedy as his best friend, and devotes much of chapter 10 to their relationship with one another and the extended Kennedy family.

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Lawford, along with other members of the " Rat Pack ", helped campaign for Kennedy and the Democratic Party.

Lawford and Patricia Kennedy divorced in February 1966.

Patricia " Pat " Kennedy Lawford ( May 6, 1924 – September 17, 2006 ) was an American socialite and the sixth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, sister to President John F. Kennedy, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy.

* Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( born in Santa Monica, California ).

* Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford ( born in Santa Monica, California ).

With Lawford are ( l-r ) Senator Ted Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, Raisa Gorbachyova, and Mikhail Gorbachev.