The name “Rat Pack” initially applied to a group of actors and performers in the 1950s who frequently met at Humphrey Bogart’s home in Los Angeles for parties. The group also included Bogart’s wife, Lauren Bacall, and Judy Garland, David Niven, and Frank Sinatra. The name “Rat Pack” originated after several days of partying that began when the group traveled from California to Las Vegas to see the premiere ofNoël Coward’s cabaret act at the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino. At some point Bacall took a look at the revelers’ disheveled appearances and remarked that they looked like a pack of rats. In the 1960s Sinatra formed his own tight-knit circle of friends, of whom the most famous were Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. This group became the “classic” Rat Pack.
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