Happy Holidays from Old Hollywood Stars 

Betty Grable, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Dors, Rita Hayworth, Debbie Reynolds, Olga San Juan, Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Cyd Charisse, Jayne Mansfield, Deanna Durbin, Ann Blyth, Natalie Wood and Bette Davis.

francisalbertsinatra:

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra!
(December 12, 1915-May 14, 1998)

When Frank sings a song, he wraps himself around it and sinks himself into it. You can just feel every syllable and you know his soul is in it. Sinatra leaves behind a legacy of music, a legacy that will live forever. Five hundred years from now, people will be listening to his recordings and they’ll say, ‘There was only one Sinatra.’ And that’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. -Tony Bennett

This man is a giant. Not that there aren’t other good singers around. But he has imagination and scope of the rarest. After all these years, there is still no one who can approach him. -Nelson Riddle

What Sinatra has is beyond talent. It’s some sort of magnetism that goes in higher revolutions than that of anybody else, anybody in the whole of show business. -Billy Wilder

Right from the beginning, he was there with the truth of things in his voice. He was one of the very few singers who sang without a mask. -Bob Dylan

To hear this man control those 6,000 people in the audience in such a masterful manner convinces you he is a genius. He doesn’t just sing the lyrics, he plays the lyrics, and gets the emotion from them as though he were Shakespeare. He’s the greatest performer of song we’ve ever had. -Joshua Logan

His music helped us understand our own lives more clearly because he was authentically honest about himself. -Shirley MacLaine

There is not even the remotest possibility he will have a successor. -Benny Green

I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat who wrote the song is trying to say. I’ve been there—and back. I guess the audience feels it along with me. They can’t help it. Sentimentality, after all, is an emotion common to all humanity.
-Frank Sinatra

thatsjustelegant: Frank Sinatra in the 1940s. Happy Birthday!

thatsjustelegant:

Frank Sinatra in the 1940s.

Happy Birthday!

terrysmalloy:

Francis Albert Sinatra || December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail. 

terrysmalloy: Negatives from a promotional photoshoot for ‘Guys and Dolls’, 1955.

terrysmalloy:

Negatives from a promotional photoshoot for ‘Guys and Dolls’, 1955.

terrysmalloy: Negatives from a promotional photoshoot for ‘Guys and Dolls’, 1955.

terrysmalloy:

Negatives from a promotional photoshoot for ‘Guys and Dolls’, 1955.

updownsmilefrown: Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, New York, 1966 by Elliott Erwitt

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Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, New York, 1966

by Elliott Erwitt

fuckyeahthevoice: Even in a mug shot it is an astonishing face. The extravagantly sensual lower lip. The intelligence of the pale, wide-set eyes. The greasy hank of hair over the left eyebrow—he could have flicked it out of the way; he chose not to—is a rebellious 1930s touch worthy of a Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd. It is a sensitive face, but one of a man with full knowledge of his own importance. -James Kaplan, Frank: The Voice Frank Sinatra was arrested at the Rustic Cabin nightclub where he worked in New Jersey on November 27, 1938. The original arrest warrant stated that on November 2 and 9, 1938, Frank Sinatra, ‘being then and there a single man over the age of eighteen years, under the promise of marriage, did then and there have sexual intercourse with the said complainant who was then and there a single female of good repute for chastity whereby she became pregnant.’ In other words—seduction. The single female of good repute who Frank had been carrying on with was Antoinette “Toni” Della Penta. She and Frank’s future wife, Nancy Barbato, had gotten into a fight at the Rustic Cabin two days prior, Toni unable to accept that her momentary affair with Frank was just that. There was a problem, though, with the arrest warrant: the single female of good repute was not single, but married and legally separated. There was also the question of her pregnancy, as the dates given for their trysts came less than a month before his arrest. There was little truth to her claims, and Toni dropped the charges. However, due to a tense relationship with Sinatra’s mother Dolly, she swore out a second warrant against Frank Sinatra, this time for adultery. He was arrested again three days before Christmas and released on bail—again, nothing came of it. It all fell apart slowly over a period of a couple months, but the image of Sinatra’s mug shot is iconic. 

fuckyeahthevoice:

Even in a mug shot it is an astonishing face. The extravagantly sensual lower lip. The intelligence of the pale, wide-set eyes. The greasy hank of hair over the left eyebrow—he could have flicked it out of the way; he chose not to—is a rebellious 1930s touch worthy of a Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd. It is a sensitive face, but one of a man with full knowledge of his own importance. -James Kaplan, Frank: The Voice

Frank Sinatra was arrested at the Rustic Cabin nightclub where he worked in New Jersey on November 27, 1938. The original arrest warrant stated that on November 2 and 9, 1938, Frank Sinatra, ‘being then and there a single man over the age of eighteen years, under the promise of marriage, did then and there have sexual intercourse with the said complainant who was then and there a single female of good repute for chastity whereby she became pregnant.’ In other words—seduction. The single female of good repute who Frank had been carrying on with was Antoinette “Toni” Della Penta. She and Frank’s future wife, Nancy Barbato, had gotten into a fight at the Rustic Cabin two days prior, Toni unable to accept that her momentary affair with Frank was just that. There was a problem, though, with the arrest warrant: the single female of good repute was not single, but married and legally separated. There was also the question of her pregnancy, as the dates given for their trysts came less than a month before his arrest. There was little truth to her claims, and Toni dropped the charges. However, due to a tense relationship with Sinatra’s mother Dolly, she swore out a second warrant against Frank Sinatra, this time for adultery. He was arrested again three days before Christmas and released on bail—again, nothing came of it. It all fell apart slowly over a period of a couple months, but the image of Sinatra’s mug shot is iconic. 

updownsmilefrown: Sid Vicious performing “My Way” in The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle, 1980

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Sid Vicious performing “My Way” in The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle, 1980

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