Frank Sinatra and Ava GardnerFrank Sinatra with his second wife, Ava Gardner, 1951. Sinatra’s success continued unabated until about 1948. In later years, he speculated that his sudden drop in popularity was because of his reluctance to change styles and evolve musically. He also garnered a ...
looking for Sue Lloyd’s stolen diamond pin, after she sleeps off a bender in a seedy motel. Her father (Simon Oakland) is the influential Rudy Kosterman, a millionaire construction mogul. He’s married to the lovely Gena Rowlands, who used to be a cocktail waitress...
FRANK SINATRA, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a dark corner of the bar between two attractive but fading blondes who sat waiting for him to say something. But he said nothing; he had been silent during much of the evening, except now in...
Sinatra, who died in 1998 at the age of 82, and Farrow, 68, were married from 1966 to 1968, but the actress said the relationship continued after their divorce. "We never really split up," she told the magazine, which added that no DNA tests to determine paternity had been done. In...
On the Town, American musical film, released in 1949, that was a major hit in the post-World War II era, especially noted for its lively numbers. The movie marked the first memorable pairing of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. On the Town, which was based o
trick and fit the national mood. Musically and culturally, it occupied the transition period between the first surge of rock `n roll in the 1950s by the likes of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Buddy Holly – music which Sinatra initially derided – and the arrival of the Beatles in 1964...
Mitzi Gaynor,sang, danced and brought to life roles inWe’re Not Married!(1952),There’s No Business Like Show Business(1954),The Birds and the Bees(1956), andSouth Pacific(1958) – for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Mus...
The two collaborated for seven years before Sinatra gave his final performance in 1995. Frank Jr. also appeared on his dad'sDuetsalbum during this period, on which he sang “My Kind of Town.” “Those seven years that I was with him, they went by like seven weeks,” Frank Jr. later...