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“The Voice” Frank Sinatra, wearing a tuxedo, stands next to James Waterman Wise, who is presenting him with the Thomas Jefferson Award statuette at the Waldorf-Astoria. Frank Sinatra seated at a piano, smiling at the camera, with Ava Gardner standing beside him, also smiling, in a 1951 black-and-white photograph. The Manchurian Candidate Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, and Gene Kelly in sailor uniforms sit together on a couch, with Kelly holding a telephone, in a scene from the musical film Anchors Aweigh. From Here to Eternity The Man with the Golden Arm Promotional photo for High Society (1956) showing Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Celeste Holm in formal attire, standing in pairs and smiling. On the set of Some Came Running Poster of Ocean's Eleven
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John Rockwell, Sinatra: An American Classic (1984), is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that provides a good basic Sinatra biography. Sinatra’s movie career is chronicled in Gene Ringgold, The Films of Frank Sinatra (1989). Will Friedwald, Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer’s Art (1995), is a well-researched volume that details Sinatra’s recording career. Comprehensive biographies that provide balanced and unsentimental analyses of Sinatra’s life and artistry include J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend (1997); Donald Clarke, All or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra (1997); and John Lahr, Sinatra: The Artist and the Man (1997). Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ (1997), explores the legend, lifestyle, and lingo of the Rat Pack. Leonard Mustazza (ed.), Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon (1998), is a collection of essays by noted Sinatra scholars. Charles L. Granata, Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording (1999), examines the means and methods Sinatra employed to create his classic recordings.

Other notable books include Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, My Father (1985) and Frank Sinatra: An American Legend (1995), and James Kaplan, Frank: The Voice (2010) and Sinatra: The Chairman (2015).

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Add new Web site: Kennedy Center - Frank Sinatra. Sep 18, 2026
Article thoroughly revised and updated. May 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 10, 2026
Add new Web site: New Jersey Hall of Fame - Frank Sinatra. Jan 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 08, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 20, 2025
Revised several captions. May 20, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 08, 2024
Add new Web site: All About Jazz - Frank Sinatra. Apr 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Hoboken Historical Museum - Historic Highlights - Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998). Aug 24, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveAbout - Biography of Frank Sinatra. Apr 19, 2022
Deleted photograph. Jan 09, 2018
Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." Nov 15, 2017
Media added. Mar 30, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of John Alden Carpenter. Sep 18, 2014
Add new Web site: All About Jazz - Biography of Frank Sinatra. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Classical Archives - Biography of Frank Sinatra. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Frank Sinatra Profile. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Official Site of Frank Sinatra. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Frank Sinatra. Mar 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Frank Sinatra. Mar 11, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Frank Sinatra. Mar 11, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of Frank Sinatra. Mar 10, 2013
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Rottweiler. Mar 10, 2013
Added photograph. Apr 27, 2012
Added photograph. Jun 17, 2011
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: TIME 100: Frank Sinatra. May 11, 2006
Article revised. Apr 19, 2002
Article revised. Oct 08, 1998
Article added to new online database. Oct 07, 1998
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