nakano Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 4 During the filming of The Golden Salamander in 1950 he had a passionnate affair with a teenage Anouk Aimée Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 5) He co-starred in the legendary British romantic drama, "Brief Encounter", with Celia Johnson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 6. Was nominated for Best Actor for Sons and Lovers. He lost to Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 7.) He had it written into his contract that he would not work on any day that Britain's International cricket team was playing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 8 On “Von Ryan’s Express” (1965) he worked with Sinatra and was amazed at how off-handed the actor was in real life. He’d expected Sinatra to be as gregarious as the characters he often played. Instead, he found a spoiled kid surrounded by his sycophantic “gorillas.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 9. Declined a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 10) Trevor Howard was Captain Bligh to Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian in the 1962 version of "The Mutiny on the Bounty". Next: Frank Sinatra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 1) Frank Sinatra won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for a non- singing dramatic role in "From Here to Eternity". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 2.) Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner were his celebrity/wives. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 3) He appeared in several movies with his Rat Pack Buddies: Ocean's 11 Robin and the 7 Hoods Sergeants 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaya bat woof woof Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 He was from Hoboken, NJ. That's #4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 5. Started as a band singer with the Hoboken Four, then moved on to Harry James, and then Tommy Dorsey, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 6) Frank Sinatra had a hit record in 1955 with the song "Love and Marriage" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. The song was from a TV musical adaptation-production of "Our Town" for which Frank Sinatra portrayed the stage manager. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 4 hours ago, Terrence1 said: 2.) Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner were his celebrity/wives. 7-Ava Gardner on Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra. "I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 8) Frank was a top recording artist in the 40s and 50s. But unlike so many others who were knocked out by rock and roll, Frank continued to top the Billboard charts in the 1960s with hits like: "Strangers in the Night" " That's Life " "It Was A Very Good Year" and his autobiographical swan song-- "My Way". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 9. In 1950 he suffered vocal chord hemorrhaging which almost ended his career. His Oscar winning performance in 1953's From Here to Eternity, a role he fought to get, was his big comeback. That same year he signed with Capitol Records. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 10) Frank's two oldest children, Frank jr. and Nancy jr. also became successful recording artists. Next: Sal Mineo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1. In 1957, he released two singles: "Start Moving (In My Direction) which got to #9 and "Lasting Love" which got to #27. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaya bat woof woof Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 One of the ill-fated trio in Rebel Without A Cause. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 3. Like Dean and Wood, met a tragic early end. Mineo was stabbed to death at the age of 37 in 1976. His murderer did not know who Mineo was but was just a drifter looking for money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 4) Sal portrayed famed drummer Gene Krupa in "The Gene Krupa Story", co-starring with Susan Kohner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 5. Was the model for Harold Stevenson's painting The New Adam (1963). It's part of the Guggenheim's permanent collection. From the Guggenheim's website: "Visitors to the Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, in early 1963 were hardly prepared for the painting that greeted them: a colossal, 40-foot-long male nude, precisely and sensually rendered in full anatomical detail...Spread over nine panels and initially installed as a three-wall wraparound, the work presents a vast, seemingly unbounded ocean of flesh." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaya bat woof woof Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 6. Some people think he was miscast in Exodus (I'm pretty sure he was in the movie). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 7) Sal starred in a Disney western called "Tonka" about the last surviving horse from the Battle of Little Bighorn, Comanche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 8. Appeared on stage in "The Rose Tattoo" with Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton and in "The King and I" with Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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