Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Sinatra,* amateur boxer, bought a $10,000 share in a friend who also makes them swoon: heavyweight Pugilist Tami Mauriello...
...their respective bailiwicks it might have been possible thus to present Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin, accompanied by the Horst Wessel song, Kimyjayo, or the Internationale. In this case, however, the apotheosis was being accorded to Frank Sinatra. The tune he was singing might well have been Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, but was in fact called The Music Stopped...
This scene is the climax of Sinatra's screen debut. Up to this point the debut is markedly tactful. Sinatra is surrounded by such seasoned entertainers as Leon Errol and Jack Haley. The story is carefully simpleminded. Errol appears as a piano manufacturer on the financial skids. His factotum, Jack Haley, hits on the idea of building his scullery maid (Michele Morgan) into the season's glamor girl. Sinatra, playing a character named Frank Sinatra, is simply a shy young fellow next door who has struck up a songful flirtation with the slavey...
...curious magic of Frank Sinatra's voice was described once & for all by Ludwig Bemelmans when he wrote of another popular voice (Richard Tauber's) that it made you feel the way you do when a waiter reaches under your overcoat to settle your clothing. Sinatra's voice has become a national feature comparable to Yosemite Valley or the word lubritorium. For Sinatra to have played anyone other than himself would have been as preposterously irreverent as it would be for President Roosevelt to play anyone but F.D.R...
...Frank Sinatra reserved a room in the maternity ward of a Jersey City hospital for ten days beginning this week...