Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra rose to fame as a big band vocalist in the early 1940s before a sharp mid-decade decline in his recording career and public standing. His comeback began with an Academy Award-winning supporting performance in "From Here to Eternity" (1953), after which he rebuilt himself as both a major recording artist, through a run of concept albums for Capitol Records with arranger Nelson Riddle, and a leading man in film. Through the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra was the central figure of the loosely defined "Rat Pack," a circle of Hollywood and Las Vegas entertainers that also included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, and he starred in films including "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and "Ocean's 11" (1960). Sinatra and Cary Grant moved in overlapping social circles in Hollywood and Palm Springs for decades but were never cast together on screen; their connection was personal rather than professional, that of two of the era's most recognisable stars socialising within the same Hollywood milieu rather than collaborators on a film.