Frank Sinatra
- Singer, actor, Chairman of the Board. It's Frank's world, we just live in it.
- Huge support of John F. Kennedy.
- Slept with Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Kim Novak, Juliet Prowse, Judith Exner.
- Close personal friend of Ronald Reagan, as well as Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Don Rickles, and a bunch of mobsters.
Timeline
12 Dec 1915 |
Francis Albert Sinatra born, Hoboken NJ. |
1956 |
"Get your hand off the suit, creep." To House Speaker Sam Rayburn, at the Democratic National Convention, as Rayburn requested Sinatra sing The Yellow Rose of Texas. |
1963 |
Asked about his religious beliefs, Frank Sinatra tells Playboy magazine: "I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle." |
1966 |
Glen Campbell performs as a session musician for "Strangers in the Night." Sinatra inquires: "Who is the fag guitar player?" |
1966 |
"I finally found a broad I can cheat on." Commenting on wife Mia Farrow. |
6 Nov 1969 |
Manson Family member Susan Atkins tells her cellmate that Steve McQueen, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, and Frank Sinatra are on their "death list." |
1974 |
After a scuffle with reporters at the Melbourne Australia airport, Sinatra later describes the journalists as "bums," "parasites," "hookers," "pimps," and "a bunch of fags." |
2 Jul 1978 |
Dean Martin roasts Frank Sinatra. |
23 May 1985 |
President Ronald Reagan personally honors an unlikely duo with the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Frank Sinatra and Mother Teresa. |
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