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My Way: Frank Sinatra’s Dark Side

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The Rat Pack Dean Martin, singer/actor Joey Bishop, actor/comedian
Greatest hits: Everybody Loves Somebody,
Greatest hits: The Thin Man (TV), Easter Parade,
Memories Are Made of This, That’s Amore, You Belong To Ocean’s Eleven (film)
The name ‘Rat Pack’ was first given to a group of New York Me, Ain’t That a Kick in the Head? Worst moment: His 1960s talk show The Joey Bishop
celebrities in the 1950s centred around Humphrey Bogart, Worst moment: Walking off the Together Again tour in Show lasted only two years, battered in the ratings by
later appended to the peer group around Frank Sinatra. 1988, leading to a late-life estrangement from Sinatra. Johnny Carson’s famous Tonight Show.
The group never referred to themselves by that moniker, Martin didn’t like playing stadiums. Did you know? Bishop was the last surviving member of
preferring the Summit or the Clan. They played together on Did you know? Drunkenness was part of the reputation theRatPack;hediedin2007.
stage and on film for years, usually crashing one another’s hecultivated,butthe‘booze’hedrankonstagewasoften
gigs rather than performing as a formal group. nothing more than apple juice.
Peter Lawford, actor / producer
FrankSinatra,singer/actor Sammy Davis Jr, singer/dancer/actor Greatest hits: The Thin Man (TV), Easter Parade,
Greatest hits: My Way, Strangers in the Night, It Greatest hits: What Kind of Fool Am I?, Candy Man, Ocean’s Eleven (film)
wasaVeryGoodYear,I’veGotYouUnderMySkin,The I’ve Gotta Be Me Worst moment: Falling out with Sinatra in 1963, as
LadyIsaTramp,FlyMeTotheMoon,NewYorkNewYork Worst moment: The car accident that injured him and Sinatra believed he had failed to intercede using his family
Worst moment: Attempted suicide in 1951. cost him an eye in 1954. connections when Kennedy opted not to stay at Sinatra’s
Did you know? HewasreplacedbyClintEastwoodin Did you know? Davis was a significant financial supporter house. Lawford never worked with the Rat Pack again.
Dirty Harry afteraninjuryforcedhimtopullout,and of the American Civil Rights movement, but suffered Did you know? Lawford married Patricia Kennedy,
turned down Charles Bronson’s role in Death Wish. racist jokes and bullying from his Rat Pack colleagues. making him John F Kennedy’s brother-in-law.

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