Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen

James L. Neibaur is a film historian and educator with more than 30 books and hundreds of articles appearing in Cineaste, Classic Images, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Filmfax, and Encyclopædia Britannica. Gary Schneeberger is a former journalist and president of the public-relations firm ROAR where he has advised Hollywood studios and international nonprofits. He lives in Camp Lake, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vi
Introduction  1
Sinatra Before the Movies  5
The Films  8
Higher and Higher (1943)  8
Step Lively (1944)  12
Anchors Aweigh (1945)  16
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)  21
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)  25
The Kissing Bandit (1948)  29
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)  32
On the Town (1949)  37
Double Dynamite (1951)  42
Meet Danny Wilson (1952)  46
From Here to Eternity (1953)  51
Suddenly (1954)  56
Young at Heart (1954)  61
Not as a Stranger (1955)  66
Guys and Dolls (1955)  70
The Tender Trap (1955)  79
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)  84
High Society (1956)  94
Johnny Concho (1956)  99
The Pride and the Passion (1957)  103
The Joker Is Wild (1957)  107
Pal Joey (1957)  113
Kings Go Forth (1958)  122
Some Came Running (1958)  127
A Hole in the Head (1959)  134
Never So Few (1959)  141
­Can-Can (1960)  148
Ocean's 11 (1960)  153
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)  159
Sergeants 3 (1962)  163
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)  168
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)  172
4 for Texas (1963)  175
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)  180
None But the Brave (1965)  185
Von Ryan's Express (1965)  189
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)  194
Assault on a Queen (1966)  200
The Naked Runner (1967)  205
Tony Rome (1967)  207
The Detective (1968)  211
Lady in Cement (1968)  216
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)  220
Sinatra in the '70s  224
The First Deadly Sin (1980)  227
Sinatra After the Movies  234
Chapter Notes  237
Bibliography  245
Index  251