Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closet; sometimes it was not a girl but a grown-up woman. One night a well-known society belle walked up and asked him for his autograph-on her brassiere. On another occasion a woman walked into his room wearing a mink coat-and nothing underneath. Frank Sinatra coped with each situation as best he could...
...these goings-on were naturally not calculated to please Mrs. Nancy Sinatra, the pretty girl from Hoboken whom Frank had married back in the Rustic Cabin days, and with whom he has three children-Nancy, 15, Frankie, 11, and Christina, 7. But somehow the Sinatras managed to keep the home fires sputtering along-until Frank one day met up with Ava Gardner...
Angles Again. After the Avalanche, there wasn't much left of Frank Sinatra. He was down from 132 to 118 lbs., his voice was shot, his record sales had practically stopped. His relations with the press were in shreds. Church groups were fighting him because of all the scandal. The Government was after him for $110,000 in back taxes. "Anyone know of a bigger bore just now," the Daily News inquired, "than Frank Sinatra?" Frankie, said the boys in Toots Shor's and in Chasen's, was done...
...record company, from Columbia to Capitol. His voice came back, better than ever; record sales began to climb. He started to freelance in TV on a larger scale, and to look around for roles he really liked in the movies. Along came Eternity. "That's me!" said Frank Sinatra when he read about the roistering, ill-starred little Italian named Maggio. He wanted the part so badly that he offered to play it for only $1,000 a week, made only $8,000 on the picture...
Almost magically, humpty-dumpty was together again. What was he like after his great fall, and his miraculous bounce back to the high wall of fame? In recent months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick...