Frank Sinatra

To mark the 25th anniversary of the death of ‘Ol' Blue Eyes’ Frank Sinatra, Los Angeles City Hall was illuminated in blue Sunday evening, May 14, 2023. The legendary singer died in fact on May 14, 1998, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital at age 82.

When director Otto Preminger bought the rights to make The Man with the Golden Arm, he knew he would have problems with the Production Code Administration: he knew they would refuse to grant him a Code seal to release the movie. The film dealt with drug abuse, a subject that was censored, along with miscegenation, prostitution, abortion, and words like “virgin” and “pregnant.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Marina Cisternas, President of HFCA (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association, that merged with the FPAH, Foreign Press Association of Hollywood, to form the HFPA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, in 1955), presents to Frank Sinatra the newly designed Golden Globe trophy, as recipient of a special award “for the picture with the best international feeling produced in 1945”, the short film The House I Live In, at the 3rd Golden Globes ceremonies held Saturday March 30, 1946 at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Club.  In 1953 Sinatra won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, he won another Golden Globe as Best Actor for the Technicolor musical Pal Joey in 1958, was the recipient of the Cecil B.

Happy 100th, Francis Albert Sinatra, born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey! Here’s Frank in 1958 receiving a Golden Globe award as Best Actor for the Technicolor musical Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney. The singing voices of his costars, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak, were dubbed.