Frank SinatraFilmography

Judy Garland: Judy Duets

Actors: Judy Garland

Synopsis: Judy Garland: Duets collects several television appearances by the singer in which she performs with fellow celebrities. The release includes collaborations with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Darin, and Lena Horne. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Great Entertainers: Frank Sinatra Singing With Friends

Synopsis: Whether you call him Old Blue Eyes, The Chairman of the Board, or simply Frank, there's only one Frank Sinatra. In this release from Passport Video, viewers are treated to a number of performances with Sinatra and some of his famous pals. Among the songs in Great Entertainers: Frank Sinatra Read More

Frank Sinatra: The Man and the Myth

Synopsis: From humble beginnings in Hoboken, NJ, Frank Sinatra grew up to be one of the most beloved American entertainers of the 20th century. This documentary from White Star focuses on the trials and tribulations of The Chairman of the Board, giving fans a glimpse into the mega-star's life, first Read More

Sinatra Singing at His Best

Synopsis: This disc features a selection of Frank Sinatra performances from the 1940s and '50s. Among the American classics heard on this release are "That Old Black Magic," "I've Got the World on a String," "Fly Me to the Moon," "It Had to Be You," "Stardust," and more than a dozen more. ~ Perry Seibert Read More

Strange Fruit

Actors: Abel Meerpol, Billie Holiday, Amiri Baraka, Abbey Lincoln, Farah Jasmine Griffin

Synopsis: Made famous by singer Billie Holiday in an unforgettable 1939 recording, the haunting anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit" was not, as many believe, written by an African-American. Rather, it grew out of poem penned by a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol. Outraged by the shabby Read More

Sinatra: The Classic Duets

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: Sinatra: The Classic Duets features the beloved crooner singing with a variety of other famous performers including Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, and Ethel Merman, as well as his daughter Nancy Sinatra. Also featured are numbers with his old Rat Pack buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Among Read More

Celine Dion: All the Way... A Decade of Song and Video

Actors: Celine Dion

Synopsis: Celine Dion: All the Way. . .A Decade of Song & Video collect sixteen music videos and live performances from the French-Canadian chanteuse. Included are promotional clips and performances of such fan favorites and hits as "The Power of Love," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," "Because You Loved Read More

Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Synopsis: Songwriter Harold Arlen is the subject of this documentary. Arlen wrote several songs for famous artists, but remained in the shadows as singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett received the acclaim. Arlen's most popular song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the noted song from the Wizard of Read More

Frank Sinatra Memorial

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned, sometimes controversial singer and celebrity Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998). Born in Hoboken, NJ, Sinatra became one of the world's most admired all-around Read More

Judy Garland's Hollywood

Synopsis: Though many fans will always fondly recall Judy Garland's wonderful portrayal of young Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Garland herself was apparently most proud of the role she played in A Star Is Born. In this film, which opened in 1954, Garland portrayed an actress who sees her career blossom as Read More

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Synopsis: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Read More

Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones

Actors: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis

Synopsis: The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods Read More

Best of the Soupy Sales Show

Synopsis: Taken from the popular TV show, this video features segments with Soupy Sales and guests like Dick Clark, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and others. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Funny Fifties

Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Comedy Carnival

Nat "King" Cole: Unforgettable

Synopsis: Nat King Cole is best remembered as the world-renowned crooner who captivated audiences with his airy songs. Unforgettable traces Cole's life through the words of those that knew him personally. The star-studded lineup includes Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mel Torme. Together with Cole's Read More

Reader's Digest: America The Way We Were - Home Front, 1940-1945 [Video Series]

Synopsis: Looking at the time period from 1940 to 1945, this three-part historical series takes the viewer on a tour of America during WWII. Important celebrities and political figures are seen in the context of life during this stressful period of history. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Laura

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra makes a rare TV dramatic performance in the role of retired NYPD detective sergeant Michael Doheny. Engaging the services of Magnum (Tom Selleck) to locate a missing person, Doheny neglects to tell the detective that he is seeking vengeance against the dirtbag who kidnapped and Read More

The Spencer Tracy Legacy

Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album

Synopsis: Initially influenced by the jazz stylings of, among others, crooner Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) developed his own distinct sound and style. This video offers a view from inside the recording booth as "Old Blue Eyes" lays down some tracks. Viewers get to see "The Chairman of the Board" Read More

Frank Sinatra: In Japan - Live at The Budokan Hall, Tokyo

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan

Synopsis: Set on the streets of New York's Little Italy, this dramatic series of character studies chronicles the lives and relationships between a disparate pair of Italian American cousins. Both of them want to leave the poverty of ghetto life, but each takes a dramatically different route when one of Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

Prince Jack

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robert Hogan, James F. Kelly, Kenneth Mars, Lloyd Nolan, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This pseudo-documentary on the life of President John F. Kennedy stars Robert Hogan as the President, James F. Kelly as Robert Kennedy, and Kenneth Mars as Lyndon Johnson, and includes some actual documentary footage intercut with the major dramatic events in Kennedy's Presidential career. Because Read More

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Vol. 4 - Hollywood Goes to War

Synopsis: This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks back home during WW II. Each of the five shorts features an all-star cast doing things to cheer people up during a difficult time. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Deadly Sin

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, George Coe, David Dukes, Joe Spinell

Synopsis: The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a gravely ill wife (Faye Dunaway)--Delaney nonetheless Read More

Contract on Cherry Street

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Verna Bloom, Harry Guardino, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story. Sinatra plays NYPD veteran Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes, in charge of a special unit set up to battle organized crime. The murder of Hovannes' partner, coupled with Read More

That's Entertainment Part II

Actors: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn

Synopsis: This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the multi-narrator device of the first film, director Gene Kelly chooses to limit the hosting chores to two people: himself, and his friendly rival Fred Astaire. Another Read More

The AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Orson Welles

Synopsis: The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: Orson Welles gathers close to a dozen stars, including Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Janet Leigh, Joseph Cotten and Dennis Weaver, plus some other luminaries in the audience, to give Read More

Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals

Synopsis: Originally produced for the late-night TV anthology ABC Wide World of Entertainment, this fascinating documentary guides the viewer through four decades' worth of 20th Century Fox musicals. Host Fred Astaire is amply represented via clips from his 1955 Fox starrer Daddy Long Legs. Also highlighted Read More

That's Entertainment!

Actors: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie triumphs, enjoyed one of its biggest box-office hits with That's Entertainment, a compilation of musical highlights from the studio's golden days. Read More

Frank Sinatra: The Main Event

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra ended his short-lived retirement in the 1970s with a massive concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. This video captures the excitement of that night, with the Chairman Of The Board performing some of his best-loved songs, including "The Lady Is a Tramp," "It Was a Very Good Read More

Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back

Synopsis: A music performance video, with Frank Sinatra singing "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," a medley of "Last Night When We Were Young," "Violets for Your Fur", and "Here's That Rainy Day," and songs Read More

Frank Sinatra in Concert at Royal Festival Hall

Synopsis: In this 1971 concert video, Frank Sinatra performs a dozen of his best known songs, including "The Lady Is A Tramp," "My Kind Of Town," I've Got You Under My Skin," "You Make Me Feel So Young" and "My Way." The presentation also features a special introduction by Princess Grace of Monaco, who in Read More

Dirty Dingus Magee

Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, John Dehner, Lois Nettleton, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars in this bawdy western satire as Dingus Magee, a would-be outlaw who robs Hoke Birdsill (George Kennedy) while Hoke is en route to Yerkey's Hole, New Mexico. Hoke reports the theft to Belle Knops (Anne Jackson), the mayor of Yerkey's Hole and proprietor of the town's biggest Read More

Frank Sinatra: Sinatra

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra at his swingingest, this 1969 performance from the Chairman of the Board features such hits as "My Way" and "New York, New York. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Detective

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Read More

Frank Sinatra: Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing

Synopsis: This 1968 television special (whose title proves Frank Sinatra was doing his best to keep up with the times) features Ol' Blue Eyes duetting with Diahann Carroll on several tunes (including "Lonesome Road" and "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") and turning the stage over to special guests Read More

Lady in Cement

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami private detective who discovers a lady in cement while scuba diving. Rome is hired by Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find out if the woman is his missing girlfriend. He interviews Kit Forrest (Raquel Welch), a boozy socialite who had seen the woman at a drunken party Read More

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra in a music performance video. He sings "Day In, Day Out," "Get Me to the Church on Time," "What Now My Love," "Ol' Man River," and "Put Your Dreams Away." He does two medleys with jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald that include "How High the Moon," "Up, Up and Away," "Look Out for Jimmy Read More

Tony Rome

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who lives on a houseboat off Miami, accepting fees for private-eye work. His former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), asks Tony for help in locating Diana Pines (Sue Lyon) Read More

The Naked Runner

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Michael Newport, Nadia Gray, Toby Robins

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars in this espionage thriller filmed at the height of the Cold War. Sam Laker (Sinatra) is an American industrial designer working in London. When Laker travels to East Germany on business, he brings along his ten-year-old son, and he ends up running into Martin Slattery (Peter Vaughn Read More

Movin' with Nancy

Actors: Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Synopsis: Nancy Sinatra's hourlong 1968 network television special Movin' With Nancy was not the standard variety-hour special customary for stars of the time. There were no lip-synced or live songs on sound stages in front of audiences, and no spoken sketches. In essence, it's a collection of 15 music Read More

Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Music - With the Count Basie Orchestra

Synopsis: A video of Frank Sinatra performing with the Count Basie Orchestra. Frank sings these songs, among others, "Pennies from Heaven," "Theme from New York, New York," and "The Girl from Impanema." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

Assault on a Queen

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: Assault on a Queen is a complex, exciting crime-caper film in which a gang of clever mercenaries try to rob the famous luxury liner, the Queen Mary. Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) is hired by wealthy Italian adventuress Rosa Lucchesi (Verna Lisi) and her German partner-in-crime, Eric Laufftiauer (Alf Kjellin Read More

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Part II - With Special Guest Nancy Sinatra

Synopsis: A video of a Frank Sinatra TV special from 1966. Nancy Sinatra guest stars. Frank sings, among other songs, "Fly Me to the Moon," "My Kind of Town," and "Put Your Dreams Away." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cast a Giant Shadow

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner

Synopsis: Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American Army officer Colonel David Marcus is recruited by the yet-to-exist Israel to help form an army. Marcus is conflicted because of his sudden appreciation for his Jewish heritage. Read More

Marriage on the Rocks

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: A couple's marriage is nearly destroyed by their attempts to save it in this farcical comedy. Dan and Valerie Edwards (Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr) are a couple who have been married for close to 20 years. Dan, a busy but successful advertising executive, believes they have a happy Read More

Dean Martin Show

Frank, Dean & Sammy: An Evening with the Rat Pack

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Carson

Synopsis: After this show originally aired in 1965 on a closed-circuit TV transmission under the title The Frank Sinatra Spectacular, an edited version was screened during 1997 in the NYC/L.A. theaters of the Museum of Television & Radio as The Rat Pack Captured: The Only Television Performance. The Read More

Von Ryan's Express

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, James Brolin, Sergio Fantoni, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a prison camp in Italy. While most of the prisoners at the camp are British, a determined, resourceful American Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes charge and leads the Read More

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra in a live performance video. He sings "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Without a Song," "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Nancy," "My Kind of Town," a medley of "It Was a Very Good Year/Young at Heart/The Girl Next Door," "Last Night When We Were Young," "This Is All Read More

More Best of the Soupy Sales Show

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra guests on two episodes of The Soupy Sales Show, with spots in color and black-and-white. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

None But the Brave

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a Japanese platoon stranded on a remote Pacific island, where with an iron hand he oversees the construction of a rescue ship. An American plane Read More

Robin and the Seven Hoods

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Falk, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows's classic musical Guys and Dolls. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's bright and snappy score features such songs as "Style", "Bang-Bang" and the Sinatra Read More

Paris When It Sizzles

Actors: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noël Coward, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvallex

Synopsis: Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie Read More

4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono

Synopsis: In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most of the film battling over who will control the gambling and wenching in 1870 Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are Read More

The List of Adrian Messenger

Actors: George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) asks his friend, British colonel Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), to check on the whereabouts of the eleven men named on a written list. Not long afterward, the plane on which Messenger is travelling is deliberately blown up. The mystery killer slipped the bomb Read More

Come Blow Your Horn

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John

Synopsis: This filmization of Neil Simon's first Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Norman Lear. Once we get past the illogical casting of middle-aged Frank Sinatra and twentysomething Tony Bill as brothers, we're home free. Sinatra, a swinger supreme, uses his New York apartment as a harem of sorts Read More

Sergeants 3

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop

Synopsis: The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's "Clan." Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford play three cavalry officers, always ready for a brawl but willing to die for each other if need be. Sammy Davis Jr. a cavalry Read More

The Judy Garland Show

Actors: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Martin Dean

Synopsis: The legendary Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin co-headline a live, vintage concert performance before a packed house in the home video issue, Most Famous Hits: Judy Garland/Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin. Featured in this 60-minute show are 20 numbers, performed solo and together. Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War Read More

This Is Sinatra!

The Road to Hong Kong

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured Dorothy Lamour once made famous. In this road to Hong Kong and parts far beyond, Chester and Harry (Hope and Crosby) are a couple of failed vaudeville stars looking for a way to Read More

X-15

Crew: Producer

Actors: David McLean, Charles Bronson, Ralph Taeger, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: This oddly technical drama about three test pilots for the X-15 devotes a great deal of time to scientific explanations and militarese, leaving slightly less time to examine the personal lives and motivations of the three pilots. The head honcho among the pilots is Lt. Col. Lee Brandon (Charles Bronson Read More

The Devil at 4 O'clock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a Read More

Pepe

Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Lena Horne

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers and an Academy Award-winning actor. Although he didn't have many critical or ratings successes with his two 1950s TV shows, his television specials fared better. Part of Read More

Can-Can

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse

Synopsis: Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to the screen, filtered through a Rat Pack sensibility. Shirley MacLaine stars as Simone Pistache, the perky and vivacious owner of a Parisian cafe, who, aided by her swingin' Read More

Never So Few

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an Read More

A Hole in the Head

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being unbelievably unrealistic, the story is pulled off because everyone else is convincing. Tony is a widower in need of a financial bailout for himself and his son, so he asks for help Read More

Timex Watch Hour

The Frank Sinatra Show: With Ella Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features archival television footage of Sinatra working Read More

Kings Go Forth

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Adapted by Merle Miller from the novel by Joe David Brown, Kings Go Forth stars Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis as, respectively, a tough army lieutenant and a cocky radio operator. Serving in Southern France during World War II, Sinatra and Curtis vie for the affections of mademoiselle Natalie Read More

Some Came Running

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Sammy Davis Jr.

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. By the 1960s, however, he was feeling the heat of rock & roll. Part of a ten-tape collection, this Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Ethel Merman

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features the television guest appearance of famed Read More

The Frank Sinatra Show [TV Series]

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra's second television series, The Frank Sinatra Show was a variety show that mixed musical and dramatic performances during its 1957-1958 run on ABC. Additional specials appeared in 1959 and 1960. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Holidays With Bing & Frank

Synopsis: Originally aired in black-and-white on ABC, this filmed color version of Happy Holidays with Bing & Frank is a 1957 Christmas special directed by Frank Sinatra himself. He and Bing Crosby team up for several musical numbers celebrating the holiday season. Songs include "Jingle Bells," "Hark the Read More

The Edsel Show

Actors: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong

Synopsis: A star-studded television special that introduced the Edsel to the American people. The Edsel was a new Ford model of the late '50s that later became an industry joke. Historically important as the first live entertainment TV broadcast to be recorded on video tape for later rebroadcast. ~ All Read More

Pal Joey

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Elizabeth Patterson, Barry Bernard

Synopsis: The John O'Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own nightclub, and who breaks the heart of the girl Read More

The Pride and the Passion

Actors: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf

Synopsis: As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million production The Pride and the Passion. Adapted from The Gun, a novel by C. S. Forester, the film is set in Spain during the Napoleonic wars. Captain Anthony Trumbull (Cary Read More

The Joker Is Wild

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control many of the city's venues; when they ask Lewis Read More

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Actors: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas, Jim Backus

Synopsis: A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy rancher Chuck Rodwell (Dan Dailey), who takes a Vegas vacation with his mother (Agnes Moorehead). At the same time, ballerina Maria Corvier (Cyd Charisse) also arrives in Las Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

High Society

Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund

Synopsis: High Society is a glossy Technicolor-and-VistaVision musical remake of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1940), decked out with million-watt star power and a Cole Porter score. Set amongst the rich and famous in Newport, RI, the story revolves around the wedding plans of socialite Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly Read More

Johnny Concho

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad, Phyllis Kirk, Wallace Ford, Christopher Dark

Synopsis: Coadapted by David Harmon from his own TV play, the psychological western Johnny Concho stars Frank Sinatra as the title character, a callow young punk who lives off the reputation of his gunslinger brother. Most of the townsfolk consider Johnny to be nothing more than a cowardly bully; only Mary Read More

Guys and Dolls

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith

Synopsis: This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, then set to music by Frank Loesser and directed by George S. Kaufman. Opening late in 1950 Read More

The Man With the Golden Arm

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a Production Code seal, it proved to be yet another nail in the coffin of that censorial dinosaur. Based on the novel by Nelson Algren, the film stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie Read More

Not as a Stranger

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not especially attractive Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) so that she can pay his tuition fees. Kristina loves Lucas, but he loves nothing but his work. Emotionally Read More

The Tender Trap

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm, Jarma Lewis, Lola Albright

Synopsis: Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith's Broadway hit The Tender Trap is transformed into a beguiling Frank Sinatra film vehicle. Sinatra plays a Manhattan showbiz agent, Charlie Y. Reader, who enjoys the attentions of several willing young ladies. At an audition, Charlie meets aspiring actress Julie Read More

Young at Heart

Actors: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role as paterfamilias to a family of musical prodigies, all girls: Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elizabeth Fraser (the fourth daughter was written out of proceedings, no great Read More

Colgate Comedy Hour: February 28, 1954

Synopsis: Cole Porter is the focus for this episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, featuring Frank Sinatra and Ethel Merman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Suddenly

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Paul H. Frees, Willis B. Bouchey, Christopher Dark

Synopsis: Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Sinatra sets up a vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. From here, he intends to kill the President of the United States when the latter makes a Read More

Colgate Comedy Hour: November 29, 1953

Actors: Eddie Cantor

Synopsis: Eddie Cantor does a sketch alone, then teams up with Brian Donlevy in another before Eddie Fisher and Frank Sinatra make several musical contributions. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

From Here to Eternity

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an Read More

Meet Danny Wilson

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Raymond Burr, Tommy Farrell

Synopsis: Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle if ever there was one, the film casts Sinatra as Danny, a would-be singer, playing cheap saloons while waiting for the Big Break. Danny and his buddy Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol) Read More

Juke Box Saturday Night: All Star Golden Classics

Synopsis: This musical presentation features the stars of the '30s, '40s and '50s. Some performers are the Ink Spots, Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr. and the bands of Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and Lionel Hampton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Frank Sinatra Show: When You Are Smiling

Actors: Frank Sinatra, June Hutton, Joe Bushkin, Dagmar, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: This episode of The Frank Sinatra Show (the first of two programs with that title - the one that ran as a musical variety series from 1950 to 1952 on CBS) originally aired on Saturday evening, May 5, 1951. Frank's guests on this particular evening included Dagmar, Tim Herbert, Eileen Barton, Joe Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Dagmar

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features Sinatra singing and performing comedy with a Read More

Bulova Watch Time

Synopsis: This holiday special features Old Blue Eyes and Ben Blue singing familiar songs. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Double Dynamite

Actors: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane Russell) are two tellers working at the same bank who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, neither is making much money, and Johnny doesn't want to set a date Read More

The Colgate Comedy Hour [TV Series]

On the Town

Actors: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin

Synopsis: Three sailors on a 24-hour pass -- Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) -- decide to soak up the sights and sounds of New York. Each one finds romance within those 24 hours: Gabey with aspiring dancer Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen), Chip with lady cabbie Hildy Esterhazy (Betty Garrett Read More

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their 1949 baseball musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Set in 1906, the film concerns the adventures and misadventures of The Wolves, a champion ball club. The team's success Read More

The Kissing Bandit

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick, Mikhail Rasumny

Synopsis: In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a hotel owned by his family after the death of his father. Ricardo makes the startling discovery that his father was best known as a "kissing bandit," a dashing thief who Read More

The Miracle of the Bells

Actors: Philip Ahn, Lee J. Cobb, Fred MacMurray, Charles Meredith, Veronika Pataky

Synopsis: Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the Bells. Adapted by Ben Hecht and Quentin Reynolds from the best-selling novel by Russell Janney, the story revolves around an aspiring actress named Olga Treskovna (Alida Valli Read More

It Happened in Brooklyn

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter and extended applause. Frank Sinatra stars as ex-GI Danny Webson Miller, who makes a sentimental journey to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. Danny moves in with Read More

Till the Clouds Roll By

Actors: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Judy Garland, Lucille Bremer, Gower Champion, Cyd Charisse, Joan Wells, Van Heflin, Bruce Cowling

Synopsis: MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who gave his blessing to the production shortly before his death in 1946. As played by a gray-templed Robert Walker, Kern is a likeable but none too exciting sort who expresses Read More

Anchors Aweigh

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised his shy pal Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) that he will introduce Clarence to all the glamorous movie starlets whom he allegedly knows so well. Actually, the only Read More

The House I Live In

Actors: Frank Sinatra

The All-Star Bond Rally

A Thousand and One Nights

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Dusty Anderson

Synopsis: Thousand and One Nights is an occasionally strident but generally successful satire of the popular Universal Jon Hall/Maria Montez epics. Cornel Wilde stars as a twentyish Aladdin, whose magic lamp yields two genies: Collosus-like Rex Ingram (repeated the role he played in 1940's Thief of Baghdad Read More

Step Lively

Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) Read More

Higher and Higher

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol, Victor Borge

Synopsis: Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank Sinatra was easily the film's biggest box-office draw. Actually, Frankie was a last minute addition to the film, which began as a traditional adaptation of a popular Broadway Read More

Strictly G.I.

Show Business at War

Reveille with Beverly

Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the Read More

Ship Ahoy

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, William Post, Jr., Jimmy Cross

Synopsis: This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens with Tommy Dorsey and his band swinging through "Hawaiian War Chant" while Eleanor Powell taps away. Powell, it turns out, is Tallulah Winters, the band's official tap Read More

Las Vegas Nights

Actors: Phil Regan, Bert Wheeler, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Constance Moore, Virginia Dale

Synopsis: For his first feature-film appearance in two years, comedian Bert Wheeler (of Wheeler & Woolsey fame) teamed up with bandleader Phil Regan. The story gets under way when a quartet of vaudevillians-Bill Stevens (Regan), Stu Grant (Wheeler) and Norma and Mildred Jennings (Constance Moore, Lillian Cornell Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Jackie Gleason

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features 1950s archival television footage of "the Read More

Music Masters: Frank Sinatra - The Magic of the Music

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Celebrity Propaganda

Synopsis: During World War II, the federal government enlisted the help of Hollywood and its stars to drum up patriotic support for the war effort. This video compilation features top Hollywood actors in short films featuring music, comedy, and inspirational dramas, all designed to educate the American Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Dean Martin

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features archival footage of Sinatra performing and Read More

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Louis Armstrong

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features clips from Sinatra's October 1957 television Read More

The Battle of the Baritones

The Frank Sinatra Collection: Frank Sinatra with Jack Benny

Synopsis: Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) went a long way for a kid from Hoboken, NJ. He became one of the world's most admired singers, a recording star, a radio star, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Part of a ten-tape collection, this program features archival footage of Sinatra singing and joking Read More