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It was superseded by the facetiously named Sinatra Doctrine in 1989.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

Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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.

Being the idol of the " bobby soxers ", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946.

In December they released the " MOR "- psychedelic single " Some Velvet Morning ", regarded as one of the more unusual singles in pop, and the peak of Sinatra and Hazlewood ’ s vocal collaborations.

The single — released the same day as Morrissey ’ s version — charted at # 46 in the UK, providing Sinatra with her first hit for over 30 years.

Two years later EMI released The Essential Nancy Sinatra – a UK-only greatest-hits compilation featuring the previously unreleased track, " Machine Gun Kelly ".

Frank Sinatra released a successful cover version ( for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album ) two years later and used it as his signature song as well, sometimes even duetting with Minnelli live on stage.

Lauper recorded " Santa Claus is Coming to Town ", a duet with Frank Sinatra, which was released on the album A Very Special Christmas 2.

" Things " was sung by Dean Martin in the 1967 TV special Movin ' With Nancy, starring Nancy Sinatra, which was released to home video in 2000.

Frankie Machine ( Frank Sinatra ) Frankie Machine ( Frank Sinatra ) is released from prison with a set of drums and a new outlook on life.

In 1982, she released a version of the Nancy Sinatra hit song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '".

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

" Having left Capitol / EMI, and after trying to buy Norman Granz's Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-a-Ding-Ding!

Details about the film were first released in film industry trade papers in April, September and November 1970 with Frank Sinatra attached as Harry Callahan and Irvin Kershner listed as director and producer with Arthur Jacobson acting as associate producer.

On November 3, 1955 the film version of the musical was released, starring Marlon Brando as Sky, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, and Jean Simmons as Sarah, with Vivian Blaine reprising her role as Adelaide.

Although Riddle would write various arrangements for Sinatra until the late 1970s, Strangers In The Night, released in 1966, was the last full album project the pair completed together.

In 1959 Norvo's group played concerts in Australia with Frank Sinatra ; Blue Note released these recordings in 1997.

The first was recorded for Capitol Records on August 15, 1955, released on the 1956 album This Is Sinatra !, and became a major chart hit.

Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song on December 30, 1968, and it was released in early 1969 on the album of the same name and as a single.

* The pop duo Sparks released a song titled " When Do I Get to Sing ' My Way '" on their 1994 album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins, mentioning Sinatra and Sid Vicious by name.

When the film was released, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, liked the direction of the film and the acting, writing, " Yet such is the role that Mr. Sinatra plays in Suddenly !, a taut little melodrama that ... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league ... we have several people to thank-particularly Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly, Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense, Mr. Bassler for a production that gets the feel of a small town and the cast which includes Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates.

The Manchurian Candidate was released as a film in 1962, again starring Sinatra, but this time out to prevent an assassination being committed by Laurence Harvey.

His skills as an arranger provided entree to the American recording industry, writing charts for Wes Montgomery, compatriot chanteuse Astrud Gilberto, and most notably Frank Sinatra, the results of which were released as the bossa nova side of Sinatra's 1971 LP, Sinatra & Company.

In 1963, at the age of 19, Sinatra was kidnapped and released two days later after payment of a ransom.

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

Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures ( as Johnny Fontane is an analogue of Frank Sinatra ), Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert Kennedy, as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello ( Carlo Tramonti ).

He returned to the U. S. to do two more films: Ocean's 11 starring the Rat Pack including Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and Mutiny On The Bounty starring Marlon Brando.

Sinatra later said of this concert " I have a funny feeling that those two nights could have been my finest hour, really.

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM.

MGM re-paired Grayson and Sinatra for two movies in 1947 and 1948, It Happened in Brooklyn and The Kissing Bandit.

In the early 1980s, Ronstadt was criticized by some ( mainly rock critics ) for playing two concerts, as a replacement for Frank Sinatra, in South Africa under apartheid, at a time when Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sinatra, Shirley Bassey and Cher were also performing there.

Sinatra felt that he should have been paid twice because technically he was shooting two films.

Davis had had hip replacement surgery two years previously, and been estranged from Sinatra because of use of cocaine.

So we went on out to Los Angeles and did ten tunes in two four-hour sessions Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh ( the last two met at the hotel ), Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Richard Harris ( who lived at the hotel for the last several years of his life ; while being carried out on a stretcher before he died, he joked, " It was the food ".

Morris provided backing vocals for INXS on their 1983 album, The Swing, she then recorded a duet with lead singer, Michael Hutchence, on a cover of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's hit " Jackson ", it was included as a bonus track on the April 1984 ( cassette only ) INXS EP, Dekadance, which reached number two on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart.

This program, aired in January 2006, contains his final public television performance, where he performed two classics, " You Are the Sunshine of My Life ," and a final ode to Frank Sinatra with, " It Was A Very Good Year.

Sinatra went on to record two versions of the song.

Conte appeared as Lieutenant Dave Santini in two Frank Sinatra crime films, Tony Rome ( 1967 ) and Lady in Cement ( 1968 ).

" He acquired publishing rights at no cost except the melody's rights kept by the authors, and, two years later, had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and " a couple of Mob guys " at which Sinatra said: " I'm quitting the business.

Parker, not one to forget harsh criticism, stated that the fee would be $ 125, 000 for two songs, a total of eight minutes on screen ; Sinatra himself was receiving a lower sum for the whole show.

Over a period of ten years he built four hotels, a man-made lake, two Gary Player golf courses and entertainment center with an indoor 6, 000-seat multi-purpose arena in which he presented many superstars including Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Shirley Bassey and which was also the venue of many World Title fights promoted by Bob Arum ’ s Top Rank organization.

During 1997-1998 the band had two guitars in line-up-Pete Kelly ( ex-Disneyfist, Sea Life Park, Decoder Ring ) joined the band on second guitar and helped record the album, Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra.

His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, first sung by co-writer Gene Austin and later by Jules Bledsoe ( dubbing Stepin Fetchit ) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of " Show Boat ", and recorded by more than two hundred artists, including Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Paul Robeson.