Growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, made Frank Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four then with Harry James, then Tommy Dorsey...See full bio »
2003Live and Swingin': The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection
(video documentary)
(performer: "Get Me to the Church on Time", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Luck Be a Lady Tonight", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Please Be Kind", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "My Kind of Town", "Birth of the Blues")
2003Elf
(performer: "You Make Me Feel So Young" 1946)
2003Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show
(TV documentary)
(performer: "It's a Good Day", "Almost Like Being in Love", "Great Day", "That Great Come-and-Get-It Day", "The Best Things in Life Are Free")
2002Sinatra: The Classic Duets
(TV documentary)
(performer: "Moonlight in Vermont" - uncredited, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" - uncredited, "I'll Never Smile Again" - uncredited, "Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "High Hopes" - uncredited, "Together Wherever We Go" - uncredited, "September Song" - uncredited, "If I Loved You" - uncredited, "Can't We Be Friends?" - uncredited, "One for My Baby and One More for the Road" - uncredited, "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" - uncredited, "Me and My Shadow" - uncredited, "Put Your Dreams Away" - uncredited / "I've Got You Under My Skin" - uncredited, "All of Me" - uncredited, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - uncredited, "You Make Me Feel So Young" - uncredited, "Love Me Tender" - uncredited, "Witchcraft" - uncredited)
1982Frank Sinatra: Concert for the Americas
(video)
(performer: "Introduction", "I've Got The World On A String", "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "Come Rain Or Come Shine", "When Your Lover Has Gone", "The Lady Is A Tramp", "Sinatra Speaks About America", "The House I Live In", "Prologue" from 'West Side Story', "The Jet Song" From 'West Side Story', "Searching", "My Kind Of Town", "Something", "The Best Is Yet To Come", "Strangers In The Night", "All Or Nothing At All", "Band Introductions", "The Gal That Got Away", "It Never Entered My Mind", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Send In The Clowns", "Quiet Night Of Quiet Stars", "I Won't Dance", "New York, New York")
1981They All Laughed
(performer: "NEW YORK, NEW YORK", "THEY ALL LAUGHED", "YOU AND ME", "MORE THAN YOU KNOW")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(performer: "The Tender Trap" 1955 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited, "I Fall in Love Too Easily" 1945 - uncredited, "I Believe" 1947 - uncredited, "You're Sensational" 1956 - uncredited, "I Begged Her" 1944 - uncredited / "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(performer: "The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart" 1947 - uncredited, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" 1908 - uncredited, "New York, New York" 1944 - uncredited, "Well, Did You Evah" 1939 - uncredited)
1973Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra
(TV special documentary)
(performer: "You Will Be My Music", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Street of Dreams", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "I've Got the World on a String", "Last Night When We Were Young", "Violets For Your Furs", "Here's That Rainy Day", "We Can't Do That Anymore", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "New York, New York", "Nice and Easy", "Let Me Try Again", "Send in the Clowns", "You Will Be My Music Reprise")
1962The Judy Garland Show
(TV movie)
(performer: "Too Marvelous for Words", "I See Your Face Before Me", "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else", "'Let There Be Love' / 'You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You'")
1960Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley
(TV special)
(performer: "Love Me Tender", "It's Very Nice" - uncredited, "Gone with the Wind" - uncredited, "Witchcraft" - uncredited, "Love Makes You Feel So Young")
1960Can-Can
(performer: "C'est Magnifique", "Let's Do It", "It's All Right With Me", "Montmart'")
1959Some of Manie's Friends
(TV movie)
(performer: "You Make Me Feel So Young" - uncredited, "Them There Eyes" - uncredited, "A Foggy Day" - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" - uncredited, "Taking a Chance on Love" - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - uncredited, "All of Me" - uncredited, "Daddy" - uncredited, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" - uncredited, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.28
(1958)
(performer: "Jeepers Creepers" - uncredited, "On the Road to Mandalay" - uncredited, "We'll Be Together Again" - uncredited, "Moonlight in Vermont" - uncredited, "I May Be Wrong but I Think You're Wonderful" - uncredited, "Put Your Dreams Away" - uncredited)
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Episode dated 25 April 1958
(1958)
(performer: "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" - uncredited, "You're the Top" - uncredited, "I Get a Kick Out of You" - uncredited, "Just One of Those Things" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.8
(1957)
(performer: "Night and Day" - uncredited, "Old Devil Moon" - uncredited, "On a Slow Boat to China" - uncredited, "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week" - uncredited, "Memories Are Made of This" - uncredited, "The Girl That I Marry" - uncredited, "Innamorata" - uncredited, "I've Got a Crush on You" - uncredited, "Oh! Marie" - uncredited, "Don't Cry, Joe Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go" - uncredited, "The House I Live In" - uncredited)
1957Pal Joey
(performer: "There's A Small Hotel", "I Could Write A Book", "The Lady is a Tramp", "What Do I Care For a Dame", "I Did't Know What Time It Was, "Bewitched")
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(performer: "All the Way" - uncredited, "Love and Marriage" - uncredited, "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" - uncredited, "September Song" - uncredited, "There's a Long, Long Trail" - uncredited, "The Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "We're Off on the Road to Morocco" - uncredited, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - uncredited, "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" - uncredited, "Collegiate" - uncredited / "I Love Paris" - uncredited, "Sweet Leilani" - uncredited, "South of the Border" - uncredited, "Paris in the Spring" - uncredited, "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" - uncredited, "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" - uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" - uncredited, "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" - uncredited, "It All Depends on You" - uncredited, "I'm Walking Behind You" - uncredited, "Swinging on a Star" - uncredited, "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain If I Knew I'd Find You" - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" - uncredited, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" - uncredited, "You Go to My Head" - uncredited, "It's a Grand Night for Singing" - uncredited, "I Got Rhythm" - uncredited, "Blues in the Night" - uncredited, "Three Little Words" - uncredited, "My Blue Heaven" - uncredited, "Three O'Clock in the Morning" - uncredited, "Three Little Fishes" - uncredited, "Three Coins in the Fountain" - uncredited, "Ma Blushin' Rosie" - uncredited, "Side by Side" - uncredited)
1957The Joker Is Wild
(performer: "All the Way", "At Sundown" - uncredited, "I Cried for You" - uncredited, "If I Could Be with You" - uncredited, "Out of Nowhere" - uncredited, "Swingin' on a Star" - uncredited, "Naturally" - uncredited)
1956High Society
(performer: "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" - uncredited, "Well, Did You Evah" - uncredited, "Mind If I Make Love To You" - uncredited, "You're Sensational" - uncredited)
1954Young at Heart
(performer: "Just One of Those Things" - uncredited, "Someone to Watch Over Me" - uncredited, "One for My Baby and One More for the Road" - uncredited, "You, My Love" - uncredited, "Young at Heart" - uncredited)
1951Meet Danny Wilson
(performer: "You're a Sweetheart", "Lonesome Man Blues", "She's Funny That Way", "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "That Old Black Magic", "When You're Smiling", "All of Me", "I've Got a Crush on You", "How Deep Is the Ocean?")
1951Double Dynamite
(performer: "It's Only Money", "Kisses and Tears")
1949On the Town
(performer: "New York, New York" - uncredited, "Prehistoric Man" - uncredited, "Come Up to My Place" - uncredited, "You're Awful" - uncredited, "On the Town" - uncredited, "Count on Me" - uncredited, "That's All There Is, Folks" - uncredited)
1949Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(performer: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Yes, Indeedy" - uncredited, "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg" - uncredited, "The Right Girl for Me" - uncredited, "It's Fate Baby, It's Fate" - uncredited, "Strictly U.S.A." - uncredited)
1945The House I Live In
(short)
(performer: "If You Are But a Dream" - uncredited, "The House I Live In")
1945Anchors Aweigh
(performer: "We Hate to Leave" - uncredited, "Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4", "I Begged Her" - uncredited, "If You Knew Susie" - uncredited, "What Makes the Sunset?" - uncredited, "The Charm of You" - uncredited, "I Fall In Love Too Easily" - uncredited)
1945The All-Star Bond Rally
(short)
(performer: "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week" - uncredited)
1944Step Lively
(performer: "COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE", "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC", "SOME OTHER TIME" / "WHERE DOES LOVE BEGIN?")
1943Higher and Higher
(performer: "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" 1943, "The Music Stopped" 1943, "I Saw You First" 1943, "Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" 1943, "You're On Your Own" 1943 / "Symphony No.6 in B Minor Pathétique, Op.74" 1893)
1969The 41st Annual Academy Awards
(TV special)
Himself - Performer & Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Song & Writing Awards
Recordings (notable 78s and 45s): "I'll Never Smile Again" [with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra] (Victor, 1940); "There Are Such Things" [with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra] (Victor, 1942); "In the Blue of the Evening" [with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra] (Victor, 1943); "All or Nothing At All" [with Harry James Orchestra] (Columbia, 1943); "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Columbia, 1945); "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" (Columbia, 1946); "Five Minutes More" (Columbia, 1946); "Mam'selle" (Columbia, 1947); "Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)" (Columbia, 1949); "Castle Rock" [with Harry James Orchestra] (Columbia, 1951); "The Birth of the Blues" (Columbia, 1952); "I've Got the World on a String" (Capitol, 1953); "From Here to Eternity" (Capitol, 1953); "Young At Heart" (Capitol, 1954); "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Capitol, 1954); "Learnin' the Blues" (Capitol, 1955); "Love and Marriage" (Capitol, 1955); "(Love is) The Tender Trap".
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No man's lifetime of work has better expressed the land of the free and the home of the brave. No man's lifetime of work has given proof to the world that our flag is still there. John Wayne is in truth a star-spangled man whom so proudly we hail.
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Trivia:
A forcep delivery at his birth left permanent scars on his cheek and ruptured an eardrum. The latter is the reason most often given for his being exempted from service during World War II.
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