Happy 100th Birthday, Frank Sinatra!
Posted on December 12, 2015 at 10:09 am
Happy centenary to the Chairman of the Board, the Voice, Old Blue-Eyes, Frank Sinatra, one of the greatest stars of all time.
These are some of my favorite Sinatra movies.
On the Town, with Gene Kelly and Jules Munchin
He won an Oscar for From Here to Eternity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvaXp2OM_F0He played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls:
With Doris Day in Young in Heart:
With Kim Novak, Rita Hayworth and the gorgeous songs of Rodgers and Hart in Pal Joey:
High Society, the musical remake of “The Philadelphia Story,” featured a duet with Bing Crosby:
“High Hopes” from Hole in the Head won an Oscar for best song and became the theme song of the Kennedy campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPTweZ2_fIThe original Ocean’s 11 starred “the rat pack,” including Sinatra and his Las Vegas co-stars and pals Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford:
Robin and the Seven Hoods introduced one of Sinatra’s biggest hits, “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is),” and gave him a chance to sing with Dean Martin and Bing Crosby:
and 
. She was on television with recurring roles in “Laverne and Shirley” and “All in the Family.” She won me over forever when I happened on her first film appearance in a sweet film 1948 film with Margaret O’Brien called “Big City.” She plays a dancer named Shoo-Shoo who does a nonsense musical number called “Okle Baby Dokle.” In “Neptune’s Daughter,” she helped to introduce “Baby It’s Cold Outside.”