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The Pioneers: Frank Sinatra

. . . . . . . . . The Pioneers: Frank Sinatra. . . . By Katie Jacoby. . . . Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra. Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, NJ to Martin and Natalie “Dolly” Sinatra, who were Sicilian immigrants. Died May 12, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA.

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The Pioneers: Frank Sinatra

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  1.         The Pioneers:Frank Sinatra    By Katie Jacoby   

  2. Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra • Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, NJ to Martin and Natalie “Dolly” Sinatra, who were Sicilian immigrants. • Died May 12, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA. • Nicknames: “The Voice,” “The Sultan of Swoon,” “Ol’ Blue Eyes” • Fan girls were known as “bobby soxers” • Married four times: Nancy Barbato in 1939 until 1949, Ava Gardner in 1951 until 1957, Mia Farrow in 1966, and Barbara Blakely Marx in 1976. • Looked up to Bing Crosby as a teenager. After watching one of his performances he decided to drop out of Demarest High School where he was part of the glee club to become a singer.

  3. The Early Years • Sang at night clubs until 1935 when he joined three boys who called themselves the Three Flashes to become a quartet known as the Hoboken Four. They won first prize on “Major Bowes’s Original Amateur Hour.” • Made his first concert appearance in June 1939 with Harry James’ band. In July 1939 he made his first recording. • In January 1940, Sinatra left James to work with Tommy Dorsey. The first successful record he made with the band was “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” and after six months he got his first No. 1 hit called “I’ll Never Smile Again” sung with the Pied Pipers.

  4. Going Solo • In September 1942 he left Dorsey to start his solo career. His first solo appearance was at the Paramount Theater in New York City on December 30, 1942 as an “extra added attraction” to a show starring Benny Goodman, but Sinatra’s performance lead to public hysteria. He soon signed with Columbia Records, R.K.O. Pictures, and a radio program called “Your Hit Parade.” • On October 12, 1944, 30,000 of his fans, many of them known as “bobby soxers,” formed a mob in Times Square for the opening of his three-week return at the Paramount Theater. During World War II Sinatra was kept from the draft because of a punctured eardrum.

  5. Frank Sinatra the Actor • Performed in 58 movies throughout his career. • Acting debut was in Higher and Higher in 1943. • Costarred with Gene Kelly in three musicals: Anchors Aweigh in 1945, Take Me Out to the Ball Game in 1949, and On the Town in 1949. • In 1945 he performed in a 10 minute short about racial and religious tolerance called The House I Live In that won him a special Academy Award.

  6. On the Town (1949) • Released in the US on December 30, 1949. • Based off a Broadway musical of the same name that debuted on Broadway on December 28, 1944 at the Adelphi Theatre and ran for 462 performances. • Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly • Won two awards including the Academy Award for Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical in 1950. The movie was nominated in 1950 for the Golden Globe for Best Cinematography in Color and in 1951 for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Film. • This is the first musical film to be filmed on location. • Stars Gene Kelly as “Gabey,” Frank Sinatra as “Chip,” Jules Munshin as “Ozzie,” Vera-Ellen as “Ivy Smith,” Betty Garret as “Hildy Esterhazy,” Ann Miller as “Claire Hiddelston,” and Alice Pearce as “Lucy Smeeler” • This is the third and final movie that Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra did together. On the Town "New York, New York"

  7. Sinatra’s Career Slides • By 1948 his success began to drop slightly possibly due to his refusal to change style and negative press in 1947 and 1948 about his connections with crime figures Lucky Luciano and Joe Fischetti. • For several months in 1950 he suffered from vocal-chord hemorrhaging and almost lost his singing voice. • In 1952 his recording contract with Columbia was not renewed, his talent agency dropped him, and his television show was cancelled.

  8. Sinatra Makes a Comeback! • His acting helped his comeback in 1953. • From Here to Eternity in 1953 won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Pvt. Angelo Maggio. • He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Frankie Machine in The Man with the Golden Arm. • Sinatra signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and worked arrangers such as Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, and Nelson Riddle on many records. • In 1959 his album “Come Dance With Me!” won him his first Grammy awards for album of the year and best male vocal performance.

  9. Back on Top! • In 1960 he starred in Ocean’s Eleven with Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., and Joey Bishop. The group appeared in three other movies together and became known as the Rat Pack. • In the 1960s he debuted in Las Vegas and for four years performed as a main attraction at Caesars Palace. • In 1965, he released “September of My Years” which won him Grammys for album of the year and best male performance. In 1966 his album “A Man and His Music” was voted album of the year, and his song “Strangers in the Night” was his first No. 1 single since 1955 and won record of the year. • In the late 60s rock and roll was becoming popular, and though he was not a fan of the genre he tried to adapt to it but was unsuccessful. He continued in act in movies during the 60s in films such as Come Blow Your Horn in 1963 and Dirty Dingus Magee in 1970. In June 1971 he announced he was retiring.

  10. Come Blow Your Horn (1963) • Released in the US on June 5, 1963 • Based off a play of the same name by Neil Simon originally performed on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on February 22, 1961, running for 677 performances until October 6, 1962 • Features the song “Come Blow Your Horn” sung by Frank Sinatra with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen • Directed by Bud Yorkin • The film was nominated in 1964 for the Oscar for Best Color Art Direction • Stars Frank Sinatra as “Alan Baker,” Tony Bill as “Buddy Baker,” Molly Picon as “Sophie Baker,” Lee J. Cobb as “Harry R. Baker,” Jill St. John as “Peggy John”, Phyllis McGuire “Mrs. Eckman”, and Barbara Rush as “Connie”

  11. Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back? • He returned in 1973 with the album “Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back.” After six years of no activity he returned in 1980 with “Trilogy: Past, Present, Future” and two other albums. In 1977 he returned to film in a unsuccessful TV movie called Contract on Cherry Street and an equally unsuccessful film The First Deadly Sin in 1980.

  12. “The Best is Yet to Come” • Frank Sinatra continued to give concerts throughout the 1980s. In 1993 he made a comeback with the release of “Frank Sinatra Duets” featuring duets with stars such as Barbra Streisand and Bono from U2. It sold over two million copies in the US. A second was released in 1994. • His last concert was February 25, 1995 at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom in Palm Desert, CA. • Frank Sinatra passed away on May 14, 1998 at Los Angeles’ Cedar-Sinai Medical Center of a heart attack. He was 82 years old.

  13. Some of Sinatra’s Awards and Achievements • 3 Academy Award Nominations • 4 Academy Awards • 1970 The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award • 2 Emmy Awards • 6 Emmy Award Nominations • 3 Golden Globe Awards • 1963 Nominated for Golden Globe Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Come Blow Your Horn • 1971 Cecil B. De Mille Lifetime Achievement Award • 2 BAFTA Award Nominations • 1973 Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award • Three Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame • 1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by his close friend Ronald Regan

  14. Every year on Frank Sinatra’s birthday the Empire State Building glows blue in honor of his nickname “Ol’ Blue Eyes.”

  15. Works Cited • Axmaker, Sean. "Come Blow Your Horn - Frank Sinatra in the 1963 Neil Simon Comedy." Turner Classic Movies. Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc., n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. • "Biography for Frank Sinatra." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2013. • "Come Blow Your Horn." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2013. • Cook, Shanon. "Crooner Michael Bublé Picks up Where Sinatra Left off." CNN. Cable News Network, 11 June 2004. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. • "Frank Sinatra Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2013. • "Frank Sinatra." The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. N.p.: Simon & Schuester, 2001. Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. • "From Here to Eternity." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. • "Higher and Higher." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. • Holden, Stephen. "Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop." The New York Times 16 May 1998: n. pag. On This Day. The New York Times on the Web LearningNetwork. Web. 24 Jan. 2013. • "The Man with the Golden Arm." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. • "On the Town." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2013. • Pond, Steve. "Frank Sinatra's Awards & Achievements." SINATRA.COM. FSE Inc, n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2013. • "Sinatra, Frank." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 22 Jan. 2013. • "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.

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