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Frank Sinatra Main Page Discography: Albums, Singles, Songs, CDs, DVDs Filmography: Movies, Films, DVDs, Videos Trivia, Facts, Quotes Frank Sinatra Images, Pictures, Photos: Frank Sinatra Picture Gallery Next: Barbra Streisand Previous: Sex Pistols	Quotations by Frank Sinatra: "There have been many accolades uttered about his talent and performances through the years all of which I agree to whole-heartedly, I shall miss him dearly as a friend." - On Elvis Presley's death in 1977. On Ava Gardner "I love her, and God damn me for it." "I'm next. I ain't scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there." After the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo, and Dean Martin. When Dean Martin walked out on The Together Again Tour "You can't put a gun to his head. He just didn't want to do it." [talking about Burt Reynolds]: "He is the one the ladies like to dance with and their husbands like to drink with. He is the larger-than-life actor of our times. He is gifted, talented, naughty and nice." "A friend is never an imposition." "I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them." "You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass." On Elvis Presley during the 1950s: "His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac...It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people." "Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does." "A fella came up to me the other day with a nice story. He was in a bar somewhere and it was the quiet time of the night. Everybody's staring down at the sauce and one of my saloon songs comes on the jukebox. 'One for My Baby,' or something like that. After a while, a drunk at the end of the bar looks up and says, jerking his thumb toward the jukebox, 'I wonder who he listens to?" Frank Sinatra Trivia: The only member of the "Rat Pack" to win an Academy Award. Was offered the role of "Don Altobello" in The Godfather, Part III (1990), but declined. The part was played by Eli Wallach, whom Sinatra competed with for the role of Maggio in From Here To Eternity (1953). 12 Dec 1915 Francis Albert Sinatra born, Hoboken NJ. Father of Nancy Sinatra, Tina Sinatra, and Frank Sinatra Jr.. Grandfather of singer A.J. Lambert. Godfather to Quinn Gonzalez. Owned an extensive collection of electric toy trains. He had coveted electric trains as a boy and set up a track that wove through the path of his career. The train started at a replica of the Hoboken train station. Played the Stage Manager in a musical version of "Our Town" on a TV special in 1955, with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint playing George and Emily. In that production, he introduced what would become another of his well-known signature songs: "Love and Marriage." 1956 "Get your hand off the suit, creep." To House Speaker Sam Rayburn, at the Democratic National Convention, as Rayburn requested Sinatra sing The Yellow Rose of Texas. Turned down the lead role in The Pajama Game (1957), which would have paired him up with Janis Paige, who played the role on Broadway. As a result, Paige lost out on playing the part to Doris Day, who was considered a bigger box-office draw. Turned down the role of Paul Kersey in Death Wish (1974). It was eventually given to Charles Bronson, and was the role that made him an international superstar. His heritage was entirely Italian. In On the Town (1949), he co-sang "New York, New York". Years later, he used the song "Theme From New York, New York" (first performed by friend Liza Minnelli, and commonly referred to as simply "New York, New York") as a showstopper in his live performances. 1963 Asked about his religious beliefs, Frank Sinatra tells Playboy magazine: "I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle." Divorced his third wife Mia Farrow after she refused to quit filming the classic thriller Rosemary's Baby (1968) in order to co-star with him in Rat Pack crime drama The Detective (1968). He had the divorce papers delivered to her on set. When Bela Lugosi died virtually penniless, Sinatra quietly paid for his funeral. He had a good sense of humor and loved to laugh, but was not good at telling jokes or witty retorts, so he surrounded himself with naturally funny friends like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jerry Lewis. In fact, many of his seemingly improvised punchlines at "Rat Pack" shows were made up by other Rat Pack members before the shows, especially Martin. Was the first choice to play the title role in Dirty Harry (1971), but broke his finger before shooting started and had to bow out of the production. Was broke by 1951. Ava Gardner had to pay his plane ticket, so he could accompany her to Africa, where she shot Mogambo (1953). 1966 Glen Campbell performs as a session musician for "Strangers in the Night." Sinatra inquires: "Who is the fag guitar player?" Though he had a lot of affairs during his marriage with his first wife Nancy, it was his relationship with Ava Gardner that finally led to a divorce. 1966 "I finally found a broad I can cheat on." Commenting on wife Mia Farrow. Got the role of Pvt. Maggio in "From Here To Eternity" after actor Eli Wallach passed on it to do a Tennessee Williams play on stage according to Wallach on a June 20th broadcast of "Morning Sedition" on "Air America Radio." 6 Nov 1969 Manson Family member Susan Atkins tells her cellmate that Steve McQueen, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, and Frank Sinatra are on their "death list." He was known for his mercurial personality, as all those who were close to him knew, he could be as sweet as a person could be one minute and equally as nasty and violent in the next moment. Some theorized that he was bipolar. On 14 May 1998, his last day of life, his family drove him to the hospital, frantically running stop signs and red lights. However, traffic was unusually light at that time, since many Americans were at home watching the final episode of the TV show "Seinfeld" (1990). While on a tour in 1974 which included Australia, Sinatra became enraged by his treatment by members of the Australian press. After a brief scuffle at the airport, he appeared on stage and delivered a hateful tirade against the press, calling them "bums and parasites," and calling the female reporters "buck-and-a-half hookers." In retaliation, the aviation union refused to refuel or otherwise maintain his private jet until he apologized. He never did. He was spirited away in the night after intervention by a high-level union leader. Was best friends with Dean Martin. Of all the members of the Rat Pack, he considered Dean his closest confidant and best friend. 1974 After a scuffle with reporters at the Melbourne Australia airport, Sinatra later describes the journalists as "bums," "parasites," "hookers," "pimps," and "a bunch of fags." He and the other members of the Rat Pack were banned from Marilyn Monroe's funeral by Joe DiMaggio. 2 Jul 1978 Dean Martin roasts Frank Sinatra. Is portrayed by John Ralston in Power and Beauty (2002) (TV), by Patrick Jude in Sugartime (1995) (TV), by Philip Casnoff in Sinatra (1992) (TV), by Richard Muenz in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995) (TV) and by Ray Liotta in The Rat Pack (1998) (TV). 23 May 1985 President Ronald Reagan personally honors an unlikely duo with the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Frank Sinatra and Mother Teresa. He was voted the 59th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Second cousin of composer/arranger/conductor Raymond Sinatra. Ray Sinatra's father was a cousin of his father. Host and performer on the NBC Radio show "The Frank Sinatra Show" (1954-1955). Portrayed Rocco "Rocky Fortune" Fortunato on NBC Radio's "Rocky Fortune" (1953-1954). Every episode featured Fortune with a new job (and new troubles). Sinatra quit the show when he got the part of Pvt. Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953). Had numerous number-one albums, and seven number-one singles (or more depending on whether you include the songs he sang fronting a big-band): "Five Minutes More", "Leanin' the Blues", "Mam'selle", "Oh! What It Seemed To Be" "Strangers in the Night", "All Or Nothing At All" with Harry James Band, and "Somethin' Stupid", shared with his daughter 'Nancy Sinatra'. He also has four number-one hits singing as the front singer of Tommy Dorsey Band although he was not directly credited as the artist. These include "I'll Never Smile Again", "Dolores", "There Are Such Things", "In The Blue Of Evening". At his funeral, friends and family members placed items in his coffin that had personal references. These are reported to include ten dimes, several Tootsie Roll candies, a pack of Black Jack chewing gum, a roll of wild cherry Life Savers candy, a ring engraved with the word "Dream", a mini bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey, a pack of Camel cigarettes and a Zippo cigarette lighter. According to Mia Farrow's biography, 'What Falls Away', he offered to have Woody Allen's legs broken when he was found to be having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Some three decades late, the Hungarian-born actress Eva Bartok claimed that her daughter, Deana, born in 1957 during Bartok's marriage to the actor Curd Jürgens, was actually fathered by Sinatra, during a brief affair that he and Bartok had had following his breakup in 1956 with the sultry Ava Gardner. Sinatra never acknowledged paternity.