Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago, Francis Albert Sinatra seemed at the other end of his string. The crooner and his career dangled hopelessly as one competitor after another zipped up the popularity and bestselling list, and Frankie's public and private relations (i.e., with his second wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner) grew progressively worse. Over their coffee and cheesecake at Lindy's, the Broadway arbiters of show business pronounced their verdict: Frankie was about washed...
...last week, the verdict had been reversed. Billboard had listed Sinatra's record, Young at Heart, as a bestseller for eleven straight weeks. Three others (Don't Worry About Me, From Here to Eternity, I've Got the World on a String) were selling fast, and jukeboxes across the land again reverberated with the voice that once launched a million swoons...
...amateur performers fall back into obscurity. But some have gone on to fame & fortune, including Opera Singers Mimi Benzell and Robert Merrill, Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, Dancers Vera-Ellen and Ray Malone, Comedians Jack Carter and Bert Parks, and such singers as Teresa Brewer, the Mariners, Monica Lewis and Frank Sinatra (who appeared on the show in 1935 as one of a quartet called the Hoboken Four...
...From Here to Eternity, voted best picture, picked up seven other Oscars as well: best supporting actor, Frank Sinatra; best supporting actress, Donna Reed; best director, Fred Zinnemann; best black & white cinematography, Burnett Guffy; best screenplay, Daniel Taradash; best film editing, William Lyon; best sound recording, John P. Livadary...
Bing Crosby Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Frank Sinatra...