The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

It was superseded by the facetiously named Sinatra Doctrine in 1989.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 ( finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding !, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled Double Dynamite.

Bogart was uneasy with Gardner because she had just split from " rat-pack " buddy Frank Sinatra and was carrying on with bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.

Sinatra was named Pack Leader, Bacall was named Den Mother, Bogie was Director of Public Relations, and Sid Luft was Acting Cage Manager.

Capp also lampooned popular recording idols of the day, such as Elvis Presley (" Hawg McCall ," 1957 ), Liberace (" Loverboynik ," 1956 ), the Beatles (" the Beasties ," 1964 )— and in 1944, Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.

Frank Sinatra was also a frequent visitor.

The pair were also to have appeared in the film but their roles were cut following their friendship with Barry Keenan who had engineered the Frank Sinatra Jr kidnapping.

Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-60s including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels.

She also updated her biography on her dad and published Frank Sinatra: An American Legend.

Sinatra also recorded " Another Gay Sunshine Day " for Another Gay Movie in 2006.

Sinatra received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 11, 2006, which was also declared " Nancy Sinatra Day " by Hollywood ’ s mayor, Johnny Grant.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

The deal gave Sinatra US $ 1. 5 million and part ownership of Warner Bros. Records, with Reprise becoming a sub-label ; most significantly for Warner Bros .' s future music operations, the deal also brought Reprise manager Morris " Mo " Ostin into the company.

" Newsweek also stated that " Frank Sinatra, a crooner long since turned actor, knew what he was doing when he plugged for the role of Maggio.

The cast agreed, Burt Lancaster commenting in the book Sinatra: An American Legend that " His fervour ( Sinatra ), his bitterness had something to do with the character of Maggio, but also with what he had gone through the last number of years.

He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra that would endure Sinatra's early 1970s conversion to the Republican party and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.

The novel also includes many allusions to real-life mobsters and their associates, and Johnny Fontane is based on Frank Sinatra, Moe Greene on Bugsy Siegel, for example.

During a long career, he also wrote articles with topics ranging from Miller and Frank Sinatra to Thelonious Monk.

Jones also arranged and conducted 1966's live Sinatra at the Sands.

She also maintained a close friendship with stars like Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Sinatra, Dolores del Río, John Wayne and many others.

* The song is also referenced in the song " Frank Sinatra " by Cake.

There is also a memorable scene at the Hollywood Bowl, where Sinatra sings " I Fall in Love Too Easily ", after Iturbi and a group of young pianists have performed an arrangement of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

She said that he also claimed to have started the Everly Brothers, Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Welk.

Written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, the song was recorded by The Four Aces and also by Jerry Vale, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, among others.

One of her many hits written by Hazlewood, it received three Grammy Award nominations, including two for Sinatra and one for arranger Billy Strange.

The enormous stage, with its elevators and turntables, has also offered Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, the Grammy and Tony Awards, and countless other events.

Her albums, Swing, Swing, Swing ( 2002 ), Keely Sings Sinatra ( 2001 ) for which she was Grammy nominated, and Keely Swings Count Basie Style with Strings ( 2002 ) garnered critical and fan acclaim.

He won a 1983 Grammy Award in the Best Historical Album category for The Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra Sessions-Vols.

Gordon Jenkins was awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ) for the Sinatra version.