Frank's story will soon be hitting the silver screen thanks to Martini Scorsese. One of the greatest directors ever to live, to direct a movie about one of the greatest entertainers to ever walk the earth. While there’s no word on who will try to fill Frank’s one-button shawl collar tux (or even a potential release date for the.film), the mere notion of Scorsese capturing one of music’s signature voices — and one of pop culture’s most towering figures — sparked a wave of dream casting speculation and debate. Director Scorsese, Universal Pictures and Mandalay Films have acquired Frank's life and music rights from Frank Sinatra's Enterprises. Casting has yet to be announced for the role of Sinatra, arguably the most popular singer of his era and who also struck box office gold with roles such as his Oscar-winning turn in "From Here to Eternity" in 1953. The project, on which Sinatra's daughter Tina will serve as executive producer, was announced one day before the anniversary of the death of the iconic singer and film star, who died in 1998 of a heart attack at the age of 82. There are some rumors that Leonardo DiCaprio is the “obvious” choice given his awesomely hott babyface and his ability to both seduce the ladies and be pretty scary when need be. Also, Scorsese clearly has a strong love for Leo, as he has cast him in several of his recent films – Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, and Shutter Island, which is currently in post-production. Since execs scored the music rights to Ole Blue Eyes’ catalogue, Leo wouldn’t need to have much musical ability to play the legendary actor and singer. “Harry Connick Jr. … He can nail the music easily and
he has the acting skills as well, so he could also be a possible choice.
"My father had great admiration for the talent of the people he chose to work with, and the talented people who worked with my father had great admiration for him," Tina Sinatra said in a statement."It is personally pleasing to me that this paradigm continues with Marty Scorsese at the helm of the Sinatra film," she said.Oscar-nominated screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson, who wrote "Field of Dreams," is writing the screenplay. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915, Sinatra performed on more than 1,400 musical recordings and in 58 films. There could be four Sinatra's. Young. Older. Middle-aged. Very old. They can have Al Pacino as one of the Sinatra's and Robert De Niro would play Sinatra's fellow Rat Packer, Dean Martin.
Frank Sinatra was not just a amazingly talented singer. He also had a great acting career. Frank Sinatra made his first credited appearance in April 1943, in a movie singing " Night and Day" in Reveille With Beverly which was the launch of his acting career. The next movie he appeared was Higher and Higher in which he played a minor role acting as himself. which he followed up with another movie, Step Lively which was released in mid-year 1944 in which he played a larger role. Anchors Aweigh, was the next movie Sinatra was in, which also starred Gene Kelly. The movie was released in July 1945 and became the most successful movie in 1945. He then appeared in other movie such as the MGM musical On the Town and The Kissing Bandit. Sinatra received a special Oscar for his part in a short film The House I Live In (1946). He also stared with Gene Kelly again in a movie called Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949).
Sinatra continued to act, now, appearing in more dramatic fare such as Meet Danny Wilson (1951), a vocal cord hemorrhage all but ended his career.His film work had nearly subsided athough in March 1952 he was featured in the drama Meet Danny Wilson which tested his acting skills on stage which gave him the opportunity to sing some of his greatest songs such as Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "That Old Black Magic," "I've Got a crush on You" by George and Ira Gershwin, and "How Deep Is the Ocean" by Irving Berlin.He fought back, winning the coveted role of Maggio inFrom Here to Eternity(1953).He won an Oscar for best supporting actor and followed this with a scintillating performance as a deranged assassin in Suddenly (1954) and arguably a career best performance and AcademyAwardnomination for Best Actor in the powerful drama The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). Known as "One-Take Charlie" for his approach to acting that strove for spontaneity and energy, rather than perfection, he was an instinctive actor who was best at playing parts that mirrored his own personality. He continued to give strong and memorable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls(one of my favorite movies ever) (1955), The Joker is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). he was the Producer for the film A Hole in the Head (1959).
He also producedSergeants 3 (1963) and Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) to the big screen. He also had lighter roles with Rat Pack buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's 11 (1960), however, Sinatra alternated such projects with more stern offerings, namely The Manchurian Candidate, arguably Sinatra's finest picture, and his directorialdebut, None But the Brave, which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a box office sensation. In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked Runner (1967), one again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U.K. and in Germany. That same year he starred as private investigator Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in Cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The Detective (1968) a film daring for its time and a major box office success.
In the 70's he appeared in the western comic Dirty Dingus Magee (1970). For seven years Sinatra refrained from acting. Then (1977) he produced the made-for-t.v movie Cherry Street. Sinatra returned to the big screen in The First Deadly Sin (1980) once again playing a New York detective with a moving, understated performance that was a fitting coda to his career as a leading man.
He made one more appearance on the big screen with a cameo in Cannonball Run II (1984) and a final acting performance in Magnum P.I. in 1987 as a retired detective seeking vengeance on the killers of his granddaughter in an episode entitled Laura. So in recap Frank Sinatra had a amazing Singing and Acting Career.
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Sinatra was Born in December 1915, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della Garaventa and Antonino Martino Sinatra.Frank Sinatra is one of the greatest singers of al time. Sinatra got his first break in 1935 with a local singing group The Three Flashes. With Sinatra, the group became known as the Hoboken Four, after appearing on his show, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, they attracted 40,000 votes and won the first prize — a six month contract to perform on stage and radio across the United States.
On March 18, 1939, Sinatra made a demo recording of a song called "Our Love", with the Frank Mane band. The record has "Frank Sinatra" signed on the front. The bandleader kept the original record in a safe for nearly 60 years. In 1941, Sinatra was at the top of the male singer polls in the Billboard and Down Beat magazines. Sinatra signed with Columbia on June 1, 1943 as a solo artist, and he initially had great success, particularly during the 1942-43 musicians' strike. And while no new records had been issued during the strike, he had been performing on the radio and on stage.In 1945, Sinatra co-starred with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh. That same year, he was loaned out to RKO to star in a short film titled The House I Live In. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, this film on tolerance and racial equality earned a special Academy Award shared among Sinatra and those who brought the film to the screen, along with a special Golden Globe for "Promoting Good Will." 1946 saw the release of his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, and the debut of his own weekly radio show.
Sinatra returned to the concert stage on January 12, 1950, in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1953, Sinatra signed with Capitol Records, where he worked with many of the finest musical arrangers of the era, some of them were Nelson Riddle,[19] Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May. With a series of albums featuring darker emotional material, Sinatra reinvented himself, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955). By the end of the year, Billboard had named "Young at Heart" Song of the Year; Swing Easy!, with Nelson Riddle at the helm (his second album for Capitol), was named Album of the Year; and Sinatra was named "Top Male Vocalist" by Billboard, Down Beat and Metronome. Sinatra started the 1960s as he ended the 1950s. His first album of the decade, Nice 'n' Easy, topped Billboard's chart and won critical plaudits. Sinatra grew discontented at Capitol and decided to form his own label, Reprise Records. His first album on the label, Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1961), was a major success, peaking at #4 on Billboard and #8 in the UK.
From his youth, Sinatra displayed sympathy for African Americans and worked both publicly and privately all his life to help them win equal rights. He played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1960s. On January 27, 1961, Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King, Jr. and led his fellow Rat Pack members and Reprise label mates in boycotting hotels and casinos that refused entry to black patrons and performers. He often spoke from the stage on desegregation and repeatedly played benefits on behalf of Dr. King and his movement. According to his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr., King sat weeping in the audience at a concert in 1963 as Sinatra sangOl' Man River, a song from the musical Show Boat that is sung by an African-American stevedore.
Sinatra's first live album, Sinatra at the Sands, was recorded during January and February 1966 at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Sinatra started 1967 with a series of important recording sessions with Antônio Carlos Jobim. Later in the year, a duet with daughter Nancy, "Somethin' Stupid", topped the Billboardpop and UK singles charts. In December, Sinatra collaborated with Duke Ellington on the album Francis A. & Edward K. With Sinatra in mind, singer-songwriter Paul Anka wrote the song "My Way", inspired from the French "Comme d'habitude" ("As Usual"), composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. (The song had been previously commissioned to David Bowie, whose lyrics did not please the involved agents.) "My Way" would, ironically, become more closely identified with him than any other song over his seven decades as a singer even though he reputedly did not care for it.
On June 13, 1971 — at a concert in Hollywood to raise money for the Motion Picture and TV Relief Fund — at the age of 55, Sinatra announced that he was retiring, bringing to an end his 36-year career in show business. In 1973, Sinatra came out of retirement with a television special and album, both entitled Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. The album, arranged by Gordon Jenkins and Don Costa, was a great success, reaching number 13 on Billboard and number 12 in the UK. The TV special was highlighted by a dramatic reading of "Send in the Clowns" and a song and dance sequence with former co-star Gene Kelly. In August, 1975, Sinatra held several back-to-back concerts together with the newly-risen singer, John Denver. Soon they became friends with each other. John Denver later appeared as a guest in the "Sinatra and friends" TV Special, singing "September Song" together with Sinatra. Sinatra covered the John Denver hits "My Sweet Lady" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane". And, as Denver puts, his song "A Baby Just Like You" was written at Sinatra's request. In 1980, Sinatra's first album in six years was released, Trilogy: Past Present Future, a highly ambitious triple album that found Sinatra recording songs from the past (pre-rock era) and present (rock era and contemporary) that he had overlooked during his career, while 'The Future' was a free-form suite of new songs linked à la musical theater by a theme, in this case, Sinatra pondering over the future. The album garnered six Grammy nominations — winning for best liner notes — and peaked at number 17 on Billboard's album chart, while spawning yet another song that would become a signature tune, "Theme from New York, New York", as well as Sinatra's much lauded (second) recording of George Harrison's "Something" (the first was not officially released on an album until 1972's Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2).
In 1990, Sinatra celebrated his 75th birthday with a national tour, and was awarded the second "Ella Award" by the Los Angeles–based Society of Singers. At the award ceremony, he performed for the final time with Ella Fitzgerald. In 1993 Sinatra made a surprise return to Capitol and the recording studio for Duets, which was released in November.In 1995, to mark Sinatra's 80th birthday, the Empire State Building glowed blue. A star-studded birthday tribute, Sinatra: 80 Years My Way, was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It was Sinatra's last televised appearance.
In recognition of his many years of association with Las Vegas, Frank Sinatra was elected to the Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997.Michael Jackson can rival Frank Sinatra for biggest-selling solo artist of all time. His jazz-influenced singing remained internationally renowned whatever whims, fashions or innovations were introduced by new generations. In a solo career that included over 70 albums and hundreds of singles, from the late-30s until the mid-90s, Sinatra remained universally loved.
