Completely Frank: The Life of Frank Sinatra
Completely Frank looks back at Sinatra's career at the top of not one but two professions, spanning...
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Completely Frank looks back at Sinatra's career at the top of not one but two professions, spanning over half a century. His film career embraces both serious drama - From Here to Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate, The Man with the Golden Arm - and classic musical comedies like On the Town and Guys and Dolls, but music has always been his first love. He began in the forties as America's first real pop phenomenon and matured into the greatest singer and performer of his generation.Sinatra's meteoric rise from his Italian immigrant beginnings is itself the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was washed up in the early fifties, the loser in a turbulent love affair with actress Ava Gardner and in his long-running feud with the press. He is larger than life and brimful with contradictions: an angel-faced bobby soxer idol with mob connections; one of the first celebrities to be denounced as a communist during the McCarthy era but one of Reagan's most loyal supporters some twenty years later; an actor with little respect for film but the winner of two Academy Awards; and a singer celebrated for his sensitivity, with the reputation of a common thug. 'You've got to decide which Sinatra you're looking for,' said one colleague, 'the one who knocks people down or the one who lifts people up.'
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