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By 1946, Frank Sinatra was such famous that trend sculptor Jo Davidson agreed to create a singer’s bronze bust. Well, not a real bronze one, but covered with this metal. Nonetheless, many people dreamt of posing for Jo Davidson.
In this photo, Frank Sinatra posing at the studio of famous Sculptor Jo Davidson in New York.
One of the most famous sculptures, the bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is in the background. We are not sure if FDR’s figure appeared thereby accidentally, but we quite sure that it inspired Sinatra. The singer was a huge Democratic Party fan until his split with John Kennedy. Nowadays, this bust of Roosevelt is set at Four Freedoms Park, NYC.
Frank Sinatra will present this sculpture to Joel Pacilio. This young lady was the head of the one of the Sinatra’s Fan Clubs. To be more precise, the one in upstate New York. An interesting one that Frank Sinatra and Joel Pacilio became friends much earlier than his career skyrocketed. The girl recognized his talent much earlier than Frank became a superstar.
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Frank Sinatra and his accomplished bust, 1946
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Sinatra’s solo career has begun, 1943
This set of Frank Sinatra rare photos captures his early 40s period. The 40s was the most defining decade in Frank Sinatra’s career. He started to work on a radio station WNEW (New York) and married Nancy Barbato. Very soon their daughter Nancy Jr will be born and Frank will start his musical career with Harry James.
In this period Nancy Sinatra was both wife and muse for Frank. She guided a young talent and never hesitated that he’ll become a great singer.
Sinatra cooperated with Harry James for around half a year, and then he decided to join the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey. That was a point of the explosive growth in his career. Dorsey’s orchestra remained very popular all over across the US, and their main ingredient was Sinatra’s vocal from 1940 through 1942.
Also, Frank Sinatra started his movie career in the early 40s. He participated in his first two movies — Las Vegas Nights (1941) and Ship Ahoy (1942). Maybe, it was the orchestra’s and actor’s success that lifted Frank to the next level, where he began his solo career at the end of 1942 and continued his rocketship rise.
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Painting a chair with daughter Nancy Sinatra
They’ll top the charts with their song “Somethin’ stupid” in 23 years, but they knew household duties too
Sinatra always was a style icon. All his suits were perfectly sewed.
In WNEW radio station office, 1939
Among Tommy Dorsey orchestra members
Sinatra had pretty average heights, but he liked playing basketball a lot.
This photo was made in the singer’s NY apartment (1939). There were times when you could meet Frank in the grocery while buying milk
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Recording in CBS studio, 1943
Softball team Swooners player, 1947
This photo was taken in Los Angeles, where musician played in a softball team, the Swooners, and also belongs to Frank Sinatra rare photos. Usually, his opponents were other celebrities (from CBS Television group). He played second base in a lineup that included manager Hank Sanicola, actors Anthony Quinn and Barry Sullivan and songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. They even had their own cheerleaders: Virginia Mayo, Marilyn Maxwell, Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. Sinatra Family Archive.
Behind the scenes: It happened in Brooklyn
“It Happened in Brooklyn” movie was filmed in March 14, 1947. Frank co-starred with Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford in MGM’s It Happened in Brooklyn, which began filming in Los Angeles. He won critical praise for his performance as an ex-soldier returning home to civilian life after World War II, and he sang seven songs. Among them: “Time After Time.” According to Newsweek, “Sinatra becomes a smoother performer every time out.”
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Frank Sinatra and John Kennedy, California. 1961
There’s a nice saying about JFK and Frank Sinatra relationships: Over the course of his life, John F. Kennedy spent time with many famous faces, but perhaps his most curious friendship was his short-lived camaraderie with entertainer Frank Sinatra. The following excerpt from Handsome Johnny. This story started with mutual admiration, followed by-election campaign cooperation, and ended up with Sinatra’s total ban from the Kennedy’s and musicians’ joining the Republicans.
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The mutual respect
Kennedy had a deep respect for the singer, and Sinatra venerated him reciprocally. But their story grew into something more important in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was participating in Democratic primaries in West Virginia. The rumor has it that his dad Joseph Kennedy supposedly asked Sinatra to get mob boss Sam Giancana assistance for votes delivery any way he could. Mobs did their part and regretted it several years later: after the Kennedys won the White House, Attorney General Robert Kennedy convicted 288 mobsters in 1963 alone.
Sinatra escorting Jacqueline Kennedy during the inaugural party
Kennedy had a deep respect for the singer, and Sinatra venerated him in return.
“There was a joke at the time that ended up having some of the truth thereto, that Kennedy wanted to be Sinatra and Sinatra wanted to be Kennedy,” said Steven Watts, who wrote the book, “JFK and therefore the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier.”
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Their friendship seemed to know no limits: Sinatra was invited to sing at the inaugural party where he escorted Jaqueline Kennedy. And after Kennedy stopped by his home, he had a symbol that reads “JFK Slept Here” hung within the bedroom and when Kennedy clinched the nomination at the l.a. Convention, the Rat Pack, temporarily transformed into the “Jack Pack.”
Why Frank Sinatra and John Kennedy drifted apart?
Sinatra went ballistic when Kennedy replaced him with Bing Crosby on a visit to Palm Springs 1962. He had a helipad specially constructed on his roof in anticipation of the visit and attacked it with a sledgehammer when he found that JFK’s did a last-minute switch to Crosby’s place. Sinatra, who stayed with Democrats for a decade, switched his allegiance to the Republican party soon after.
Frank Sinatra at Kennedy’s inaugural party
The story behind Sinatra’s dismissal from the Kennedy ingroup, the accepted narrative, had it that the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover met with the attorney general shortly before the president’s Palm Springs getaway and warned him to set a distance between his brother and Sinatra. He supposedly provided some evidence of the singer’s close relationship with Sam Giancana and various other gangsters, which wasn’t a big surprise, though. Shocked and alarmed, because the story goes, Bobby ran to Jack within the Oval Office and demanded he cease all contact with the person.
The sequence of events seems essentially right, apart from the quaint concept Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob. If Frank’s fondness for gangsters had survived this long without making much trouble for the administration, why wouldn’t it cause such an eruption now?
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