She was the eldest of three children born to famed crooner Frank Sinatra and his wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. More From BiographyElvis Presley's Family Tree Playback cannot continue. No available working or supported playlists. Refresh the page to resume playback The family moved to Hasbrouck...
Bobby. Jackie’s affair with Bobby, in the years following Jack’s assassination, has only recently been revealed by C David Heymann in his biography RFK . ‘SocialiteMary Harringtonwas staying at a house next to the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach in 1964. “I was looking out ...
New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra. Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck...
The film was endorsed by Sinatra and produced by his daughter, Tina Sinatra. It was directed by James Steven Sadwith and stars Philip Casnoff, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Gunton, Gina Gershon and Marcia Gay Hardon. The story is both exciting and engaging because it is an extremely candid account ...
Frank Sinatra was many things: A crooner who could make bobby-soxers faint, an Academy Award-winning actor, the elder statesman of the Rat Pack. At the height of his career, it was rumored that “every woman wants to have him; every man wants to be him.” But his fans and detractors...
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The photographs, by Phil Stern, some before never published, feel as insider-outsider as Talese was. “I was never part of his inner circle, but for some reason Frank trusted me,” Stern wrote. Stern photographed Sinatra and Mia Farrow, a happy blur; Sinatra and his daughter Nancy, just...
So you turn to Will Friedwald's 2002 offering,Stardust Memories: A Biography Of Twelve Of America's Most Popular Songs, one of the dozen being "My Funny Valentine". And, amidst all the fine insights into the merits of Miles Davis' '58 reading with John Coltrane versus his '64 performanc...
Who swung with his wife... We had a newborn kitten in the car that we'd just picked up, and my daughter was most confused by Frank's improvisation. In 1942, after three years of cancer and five painful operations, Fred Fisher hanged himself. That week in America, he was on the Hit...
years, Sinatra sang with local dance bands and for remote radio broadcasts. In 1939, while singing and waiting tables at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, he was discovered and hired by trumpeterHarry James, who had recently quit theBenny GoodmanOrchestra to start his own ...