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Line 1: {{creator}} {{cleanup\|The list of Frankie's roles is missing most of the roles}} ~~[[File:_Lovers_232.jpg\|frame]]~~ [[File:Frank_Sinatra_-_Songs_for_Swingin%27_Lovers!.jpg\|frame]] [[Fan Nickname\|The Chairman of the Board]]. Ol' Blue Eyes. The Voice. '''Francis Albert Sinatra''' (1915-1998) is one of the best known and best loved singers in the history of popular music. (And a pretty damn good actor, too.) His music and voice are some of the most recognizable in the world, and his work has been featured in numerous other media. An overview of his long and storied career would take too much space, so one should look to [[wikipedia:Frank Sinatra\|The Other Wiki's]] article on him for that. A native son of [[New Jersey]], his hometown of Hoboken honors him with a large mural covering an entire intersection. Interestingly, serious historians of music consider him to be the true inventor of the [[Concept Album]], with [[Older Than They Think\|1955]]'s ''In the Wee Small Hours'' (it's about men feeling lonely and isolated in, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|the wee small hours]] of the morning). He also won an [[Academy ~~Awards~~Award\|Oscar]] three times (and was nominated for two more) for Best Original Song. Also probably had strong ties to [[The Mafia]], although it's impossible to say where the truth ends and fantasy begins. Line 16 ⟶ 17: If a trope is ever written about someone who tips big, really big, it should be called "The Sinatra". His minimum tip was $100 -- back in the ''Fifties'', when people might take home $100 every couple of weeks<ref> Put that in perspective: today, that's like tipping somebody one thousand dollars. I mean, waitress brings you two drinks, that's ''two thousand dollars''. What big shot today tips like that? Well, there's, uhh, umm ... give me a second ...</ref>. Story goes, he asks the kid who brings his car around outside the restaurant what's the biggest tip he ever got. Kid says $100. Sinatra gives him $200, then asks who gave him the $100 tip. "You did, sir, last week." {{actorroles}} ~~{{examples\|Notable appearances in Film}}~~ * ''[[Anchors Aweigh]]'': <!-- Alongside [[Gene Kelly]] and [[Tom and Jerry\|Jerry]] --> * ''The House I Live In'': <!-- A ten minute short which spoke out against anti-Semitism. --> * ''Take Me Out To The Ball Game'' : <!-- Another film co-starring Gene Kelly. --> * ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'': <!-- Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. --> * ''[[The Man ~~With~~with ~~The~~the Golden Arm]]'': Frankie "Dealer" Machine * ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' * ''High Society'' <!-- with [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Grace Kelly]] --> * ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' <!-- with the rest of the [[Rat Pack]] --> * ''A Hole In The Head'' * ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)\|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' * ''The Naked Runner'': <!-- His behavior behind the scenes turned the film into a disaster, with him walking out in mid-production. --> * ''Suddenly'': <!-- Featured Sinatra playing an assassin with a high-powered rifle planning to kill the president, well known both for Lee Harvey Oswald having supposedly watched it a month prior to the assassination of Kennedy and because Sinatra tried to have the film removed from circulation after the event. Now in the public domain. --> * ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' {{examples\|Appearances in Fiction}}▼ * Frank Sinatra was subject to many parodies in [[Western Animation]] during its [[The Golden Age of Animation\|Golden Age]]. Such appearances include:▼ [[Tex Avery]]'s ''Little 'Tinker'', in which a lonely skunk attempts to woo the other forest creatures by putting on a Frank Sinatra suit and singing "All Or Nothing At All". The female bunnies watching all [[Love Makes You Crazy\|go insane at the sight of him]], and while on stage (in a rather cruel parody of how skinny Sinatra was in the late '40s) falls through a knothole, has plasma being injected into him, sings from an iron lung, gets measured for a casket, and stands on a scale and gets out-weighed by a feather, among other things.▼ * There was another cartoon where something similar was pulled off by a chicken, who at one point, he is completely obscured by the microphone (except for the arms and legs).▼ In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddie Valliant accidentally draws a singing sword against Judge Doom, which has Sinatra's face on it singing (appropriately enough) "Witchcraft".▼ In one installment of [[Popeye]], after Popeye and Bluto spend the entire episode fighting over Olive Oyl, in the end she falls head over heels for (an animated) Frank Sinatra.▼ ** Dino Spumoni from [[Hey Arnold!]] is an [[Expy]] (and [[Affectionate Parody]]) of late-career Sinatra.▼ * Johnny Fontaine from ''[[The Godfather]]'' is a flagrant [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version.▼ ** Mario Puzo never confirmed or denied this, but Sinatra himself threatened at least one newspaper that printed the "Fontane was based on Sinatra," theory with a lawsuit if they did not retract the statement. They did, and it was dropped.▼ * Sinatra and the Rat Pack feature in a series of mystery novels by Robert Randisi.▼ * He and the [[Rat Pack]] are the inspiration for [[Gang of Hats\|The Chairmen]] of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', especially their leader Benny.▼ * Harvey [[Meaningful Name\|Finevoice]], a recurring character on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', a send-up of Vegas-golden-age Sinatra, complete with references to playing "all da rooms in Vegas" and romancing.▼ {{creatortropes}} Line 62 ⟶ 50: * [[Jack of All Trades]]: Some music aficionados don't see him as the best in any particular field, but agree that he was extremely talented and a great singer in each field he performed in. * [[Nice Hat]]: One of the few men capable of truly pulling off the fedora. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: In the '40s, he played a singing and dancing sailor in ''Anchors Aweigh'' and ''On The Town''. In 1953's ''From Here To Eternity'' (which reignited his career) he played a loose-cannon Army private, and in 1955's ''The Man With The Golden Arm'', he plays a fresh-out-of-prison '''drug addict''', in an era where the topic was [[Hays Code\|highly controversial]], no less. And don't get us started on his collaborations with The [[Rat Pack]]. No wonder the FBI thought he had ties to [[The Mafia]]. Let's also not forget [[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)\|The Manchurian Candidate]]. * [[True Companions]]: The Rat Pack, of course, named after the [[True Companions]] of another Hollywood legend, Humphrey Bogart. Sinatra was the founder, and its other chief members were Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. If you ever find a clip featuring one of their songs or skits on [[YouTube]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqyBXFGcUY especially Frankie and Deano]), it'll have you rolling in the aisles. In point of fact, as [[Lauren Bacall]], for one, relates in her autobiography, the [[Rat Pack]] was in fact the same group that Bogart led; Sinatra was part of it. Sinatra simply took over the leadership position after Bogie died and transformed it into the more famous version. [[Creator Backlash]]: Sinatra reportedly disliked his clique being named "Rat Pack", and insisted that Bogart's group was the only true "Rat Pack". He preferred the the name of "The Summit". ** When Sinatra made it clear the Summit wouldn't patronize any hotels or casinos that wouldn't admit Sammy, segregation in Las Vegas pretty much vanished. ▲{{examples\|Appearances in Fiction}} == [[Film]] == ▲* Johnny Fontaine from ''[[The Godfather]]'' is a flagrant [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version. ▲** Mario Puzo never confirmed or denied this, but Sinatra himself threatened at least one newspaper that printed the "Fontane was based on Sinatra," theory with a lawsuit if they did not retract the statement. They did, and it was dropped. == [[Literature]] == ▲* Sinatra and the Rat Pack feature in a series of mystery novels by Robert Randisi. == [[Video Games]] == ▲* He and the [[Rat Pack]] are the inspiration for [[Gang of Hats\|The Chairmen]] of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', especially their leader Benny. == [[Web Original]] == ▲* Harvey [[Meaningful Name\|Finevoice]], a recurring character on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', a send-up of Vegas-golden-age Sinatra, complete with references to playing "all da rooms in Vegas" and romancing. == [[Western Animation]] == ▲* Frank Sinatra was subject to many parodies in [[Western Animation]] during its [[The Golden Age of Animation\|Golden Age]]. Such appearances include: ▲ [[Tex Avery]]'s ''Little 'Tinker'', in which a lonely skunk attempts to woo the other forest creatures by putting on a Frank Sinatra suit and singing "All Or Nothing At All". The female bunnies watching all [[Love Makes You Crazy\|go insane at the sight of him]], and while on stage (in a rather cruel parody of how skinny Sinatra was in the late '40s) falls through a knothole, has plasma being injected into him, sings from an iron lung, gets measured for a casket, and stands on a scale and gets out-weighed by a feather, among other things. ▲* There was another cartoon where something similar was pulled off by a chicken, who at one point, he is completely obscured by the microphone (except for the arms and legs). ▲ In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddie Valliant accidentally draws a singing sword against Judge Doom, which has Sinatra's face on it singing (appropriately enough) "Witchcraft". ▲ In one installment of [[Popeye]], after Popeye and Bluto spend the entire episode fighting over Olive Oyl, in the end she falls head over heels for (an animated) Frank Sinatra. ▲** Dino Spumoni from [[Hey Arnold!]] is an [[Expy]] (and [[Affectionate Parody]]) of late-career Sinatra. {{reflist}} {{Grammy Award for Album of the Year}} [[Category:Musicians]]▼ {{Cecil B. 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