Want to know the best Frank Sinatra movies? How about the worst Frank Sinatra movies? Curious about Frank Sinatra’s box office grosses or which Frank Sinatra movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Frank Sinatra movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Talk about procrastinating! I originally got a request to do a Frank Sinatra movie page almost three years ago by Earle1670 from HubPages. Frank was bumped many times….but finally “The Chairman of the Board” has his very own UltimateMovieRankings page.
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was an American actor, director and of course singer. He won a Best Supporting Oscar® for his performance in From Here To Eternity. On this page we will be only looking at Sinatra’s movie career. Despite being in the shadows of his singing career…he managed to put together a pretty successful movie career. Including 20 movies that crossed the magical $100 million mark when looking at adjusted domestic box office dollars.
His IMDb page shows 65 acting credits from 1941-1987. This page will rank 46 Frank Sinatra movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, some of his movies made outside of the Hollywood system and his straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Frank Sinatra Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Frank Sinatra Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by yearly box office rank
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Frank Sinatra movie received.
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Frank Sinatra Table
- Twenty-eight Frank Sinatra movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 60.86% of his movies listed. From Here to Eternity (1953) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Frank Sinatra movie grosses $132.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 26 Frank Sinatra movies are rated as good movies…or 56.52% of his movies. Manchurian Candidate (1962) is his highest rated movie while The Pride and the Passion (1957) is his lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Frank Sinatra movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 39.13% of his movies.
- Four Frank Sinatra movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 8.69% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 32 Frank Sinatra movies scored higher that average….or 69.56% of his movies. From Here to Eternity (1953) got the the highest UMR Score while First Deadly Sin (1980) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Frank Sinatra
1. Francis Albert Sinatra was born and raised in born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
2. Frank Sinatra’s voice carried him into movies. In the 1930s and 1940s Sinatra went from a saloon singer, to a band singer, to working with musical greats Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. As he gained more notoriety in the music world he started landing cameo singing roles in movies By the mid 1940s, he was starring in blockbuster movies.
3. Frank Sinatra had many nicknames…here are the most famous: The Voice, Chairman of the Board, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Swoonatra, The Sultan of Swoon and La Voz. Frank Sinatra has an incredible 321 (and counting) soundtrack credits on IMDb and has sold over 150 million records (and counting) in the world.
4. Frank Sinatra was married four times. His first marriage was to Nancy Barbato from 1939-1951…they had 3 children (singer actress Nancy Sinatra, singer Frank Jr. and Christina Sinatra) together. His second marriage was to actress Ava Gardner 1951-1957. His third marriage was to actress Mia Farrow 1966-1968. His final marriage was to writer Barbara Marx 1976-1998 (his death).
5. After Frank Sinatra’s movies Meet Danny Wilson (1951) and Double Dynamite (1951) bombed at the box office he got the dreaded label “box office poison”. Around this time From Here To Eternity was being cast. Sinatra really wanted to play the Angela Maggio role. The producer of the movie was strongly against using Sinatra and cast Eli Wallach in the role. However when filming started Sinatra had the role. There are many theories on how Sinatra got the role….my favorite is the Hollywood legend that parts of The Godfather are based on Frank Sinatra…..the “offer he can’t refuse” part.
6. Frank Sinatra turned down or was seriously considered for the following roles: On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando part), North by Northwest (Cary Grant part), Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood part), Death Wish (Charles Bronson part), The Odd Couple (Walter Matthau part), The Graduate (Mr. Robinson), The Music Man (Robert Preston part), and Flaming Star (Elvis Presley). A part Sinatra really wanted to play but did not get was the Marlon Brando role in The Godfather.
7. Frank Sinatra did many cameo roles in his career. Blink and you might have missed him in Cannonball Run 2, The Oscar, The Road To Hong Kong, The List of Adrian Messenger, Around the World in Eighty Days, Meet Me In Las Vegas and Cast A Giant Shadow.
8. In 1963 his son was kidnapped. The kidnappers told Frank Sr. to call them from pay phones. During one call he ran out of coins, and briefly feared that it had cost him his son (the kidnappers gave him another chance). He paid the $250,000 ransom, Frank Jr. was returned, and the kidnappers were eventually caught. However, as a result of the payphone scare, Sinatra swore never to be caught without dimes again, and carried a roll of dimes with him constantly until his death.
9. Frank Sinatra was listed in Quigley Publications’ Top Ten Box Office Stars in 1956 (10th), 1957 (5th), 1958 (10th), 1959 (7th),1960 (8th), and 1962 (8th). 19 of his movies grossed over $100 million when looking at adjusted for inflation box office numbers. Check out Frank Sinatra’s movie career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
10. Three more quick facts: Frank Sinatra’s last starring role, The First Deadly Sin, was Bruce Willis‘ first ever movie appearance. When Bela Lugosi died broke….Frank Sinatra paid for his funeral. Frank Sinatra’s epitaph on his tombstone says “The Best Is Yet To Come”.
Check out Frank Sinatra‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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1 This is a most welcome update as it once again shows how Frank’s grosses compare with those of other stars whose figures have already been updated.
2 There have just been posts about the fact that Frank was one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century if not THE greatest. The downside is that he was mired in controversy and was in regular quarrels.
3 A group led by John Wayne pressurised Frank into sacking a screenwriter whom he had signed up for one of his films. Sometime later Frank and friends were in a nightclub when the Duke arrived and came over to say hello.
4 Reports at the time say that Sinatra lunged at him and was thrown back by Wayne whereupon some of the other Clan members sought to intervene on Frank’s behalf. Wayne scattered them and hastily retreated to the car park pursued by Frankie’s bodyguards whom the Duke repulsed and then took off in his car.
6 Frank was scheduled to play host to JFK and had a special wing added to the Sinatra home for the President’s visit. However at the last moment JFK went to stay with Bob Hope instead as further controversy about Frank had suddenly broken out in the media. Peter Lawford who was related to the Kennedy family was sacked from the Clan and ostracised by them.
7 Broderick Crawford used to be invited to Clan parties where they tended to drink until some of them passed out. On one occasion Frankie lay asleep in a corner and another drunk bet Brodie that he couldn’t eat Frank’s toupee. Crawford crawled across the floor and attempted to oblige and was barred from future Clan parties.
8 Stars’ private activities are a side issue though and the focal point for a Cogerson participator should be their movies, performances and film earnings. Fran’k legend lies primarily with his vocal achievements but I preferred his acting as in in highly dramatic films The Joker is Wild and The Man with the Golden Arm
9 He had a good delivery of dry wit too,.for example
(1) The cheesecake/necktie scene in Guys and Dolls was one of the funniest that I have ever seen on film and Frank and Brando were brilliant together. It’s a pity they never again teamed up on the screen. Apparently they didn’t get on at that time but it is said that they mellowed towards each other in later years.
(2) In the Tender Trap Frank played a womaniser and in one scene he compliments a young girl whom he’s dating about some achievement or other that she’s just accomplished. She asks him where they’re heading next and he replies “Let’s go up to my apartment. That’s where I keep the prizes.”
BOB
SINATRA POSTSCRIPT
As Bruce explains Frank’s last film was The First Deadly Sin He was though only second choice
for the role.which was first offered to his old Guys and Dolls co-star of a quarter of a century
earlier ! !
Interesting…I did not know The First Deadly Sin had been around that long…it was not a good finale for Sinatra for sure….the best part is that Bruce Willis has a bit part in the movie….Frank and Bruce share a door.
1 Interesting about Bruce Willis and the 1st Deadly Sin I suppose you’ve got to start somewhere. I’ve read that you could also glimpse Willis as one of the jurors in Newman’s The Verdict. I have the DVD and have strained my eyes and failed to spot him. You’re a Wills fan so anything on that?.
2 I read that when he was ‘spotted’ the Duke was working as a labourer on movie sets, carting props about and so forth. Maybe both Willis and the Duke illustrate the old saying that “there was always something in there trying to get out.”
2 I’ve been attempting to catch up on some of the past comments that were made before I started taking an interest in the comments sections of your pages and I was interested to learn about Kevin Costner’s ‘morgue’ movies Perhaps we need to add him to our group of obsessive stars – Audrey with her older men and Steve with his constant escaping.
3 CLARIFICATION
I’m sorry if I misled you with my “quarter of a century” remark. What I was trying to economise in saying was that there was a coincidence in that Frankie and Bud made Guys and Dolls in 1955 and 25 years later (1980) Bud and then Frank were offered the First Deadly Sin part, which Frank accepted.
Hey Bob.
1. You tube has some great videos that show both Bruce bit parts….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hetHGGlUgBE Bruce is to the right of Newman….and sitting beside Bruce is the guy that played Jigsaw in the Saw movies.
2. This one is Bruce and Frank starring in The First Deadly Sin…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYoof_BG8w no way the movie could have been made without Bruce’s walking in the door scene….lol.
3. Yep…you never know where a future star is hiding.
4. Currently there are over 16,000 comments on these pages….your catching up task….might take some time. I remember the Costner “morgue movies”…..you can also add in the Bruce Willis “number” movies, the Emily Blunt “time travel” movies too.
5. Got it….now it makes sense….I can see both Brando and Sinatra being considered for the part in First Deadly Sin.
Cogerson 🙂
Hey Bob.
1. Frank and Bing are now completed. Bing’s box office numbers really jumped….all the way into the Top 10…when looking at career box office.
2. For a singer..he had a great movie career…lol.
3. Interesting story about the Duke and Frank…I imagine that was a incredible scene to witness.
4. I watched the Rat Pack movie…and it showed how Sinatra did lots of work on his house for the JFK visit….and then he was stunned when JFK did not come….in the movie they made it seem that Frank’s mob ties were the reason for the No Show.
5. The Clan parties sound pretty wild.
6. Sinatra was miffed that he did not get the Brando part….sounds Brando tried to be friendly….but Sinatra was mad about the part he got….was the reason for the conflict. I agree with the cheesecake scene being very funny….of the Brando movies I have tracked down….Guys and Dolls was easily the best one I watched.
7. I will have to check out Tender Trap
Thanks for sharing your Frank Sinatra knowledge.
BRUCE
1 The Duke and Frankie apparently made it up and shortly before Big John’s death in 1979 even shared a political platform together in support of Reagan in his long campaign for the 1980 presidency. If I remember correctly Chuck Heston and Dino were also involved and when Ronnie was visiting a certain campaign town Chuck and one of the others rode out to greet him on horseback.
2 Frank’s having to play 2nd fiddle to Bud in Guys and Dolls compounded the situation the previous year when as you’ve pointed out Bud got the Waterfront part coveted by Frankie.
Until they apparently caught themselves on in later life the insults between them flew fast and thick for a long time. For example Frank would repeatedly refer to Bud as “Mumbles” and in an interview Brando said “If Frank gets to heaven he’ll chastise God for making him bald.”
3 Your comments about Frankie’s oblique connection with The Godfather are borne out by suggestions that Sinatra was the inspiration for the singer Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) whose desperation for a movie part led to the famous horse’s head scene. If that information is correct I’ll bet it pleased Bud who got to slap ‘Sinatra’ in the face! I wonder if Frankie ever saw The Godfather and if so what was going through his mind as he watched it !
4 Although he wasn’t very kind to people such as Peter Lawford who he thought had disappointed him in some way or other Frank could not have been a better friend to those who managed to keep on the right side of him. Dino descended into alcoholism in his final years and became a public embarrassment but I always admired the way Frank seemed to stand by him until the end..
5 I will now go full circle back to the Duke – as is my wont ! Whilst the Godfather immortalised for cinema goers the “offer he can’t refuse” line Bud was only the 2nd great star to utter the line because it was spoken decades before Godpop in a long-forgotten cowboy B movie.. If you don’t already know the answer I’ll give you three guesses as to who was the first great star to say those words ! .
Hey Bob.
1. Glad they made up. I have read how the Hollywood stars came out in force for Reagan….even though he was a Republican….lol.
2. The Frank and Bud feud is legendary…but since they were both professionals…that does not come across on screen. When I watched that movie…I was paying attention to the fact they are barely in the movie together. Yes they have the classic cheescake bet scene…..but after that Bud hangs out with Jean Simmons….and Frank tries to get the crap game together. Imagine the fireworks if the entire movie would have been both actors in almost all the scenes together.
3. Sinatrs was ice cold when From Here To Eternity was cast….plus the producer disliked Sinatra……so you wonder what the real reason that Frank got the part….I think a mob threat would be enough to change a producer’s mind….though waking up with a horse head in your bed would have some influence too….lol.
4. I think staying on Frank’s good side…would have been a good approach to have……like everybody…he had some good moments and some bad moments….in my grocery management career…I might have managed 20,000 people…..though most would say that I was a good and fair manager (the wife loves it when we run into a former associate and they seem so happy to see me)…..there is a small % of people that thought I was the worst, unfairest manager to walk the Earth.
5. Well…I gotta say John Wayne was the first one to say that quote….I had read that someone…..I just do not know which B Western it came from.
Speaking of John Wayne….yesterday when I was updating Bing Crosby….I stumbled across box office information on Wayne’s California Straight Ahead! (1937)….so the Wayne Page will be getting a new movie very soon.
Cogerson 🙂
1 Thanks for the extra comments Bruce. I’ll plug in my Verdict DVD again tonight !
2 It has been reported that Bud was a fanatic for silent comedies and that when he died and his personal effects were being cleared out of his home his movie collection consisted completely of the movies of Chaplin, the Keystone Kops ets with one exception – a DVD of Guys and Dolls.
3 It is possible that the movie had a nostalgic rather than an artistic appeal for him as I read that he went on a lone European tour after completion of Guys and Dolls and that he was never happier than he was at that time. The article didn’t explain why but perhaps it was just relief at getting away from Frankie !!
4 Anyway films like Guys and Dolls provided a kind escapism that I personally don’t see in many of today’s films. You notice how for example that although the crap game was played out in some underground dive the place looked almost like an ice cream parlour.
5 Thanks again for the marvellous stats. Am just getting round to transferring Bing to my database. Being at the retirement age does have its advantages !
BOB
Hey Bob.
1. If you watch the attached You Tube videos on the previous comment…both Willis bit roles can be spotted very easily
2.& 3. I bet Brando liked seeing Guys and Dolls….he was fit…singing and dancing….probably the peak of his life during the filming of that movie.
4. I liked that set too….all the sets in Guys and Dolls were outstanding.
5. Glad you found the Bing update…..I really screwed up his 1930 box office numbers…..it was one of the first classic pages I did….I think when I found a box office number back then….I assumed it was a gross…..now I know they were rental numbers….so he really jumped in career box office.
Cogerson 🙂
Saw you updated this page – I cannot write a lot now as I have some business to attend to and it is not a holiday in Canada.
Because of the Canada Post situation, I have to do things in person.
Sinatra is my favourite singer of all time.
Will write more later.
Yep Frank is done….and now Bing has been updated….thinking I need to get the next great singer/actor done…Mr. Dean Martin.
Yes!
You will notice I don’t talk about the offscreen stuff again.
It is not that I am not interested.
But being that Frank is my favourite singer of all time, I’ve read dozens if not 100 books.
Yes. Dean!
Hey Flora…..let’s see….Gene Tierney is next when it comes to a new page…..and Dean Martin will be the next update. Frank has lots of books….I think I looked at all of them trying to find a box office number on The Lady In Cement…lol.
Bruce:
1 Look forward to the Dino one and my database is again purring in anticipation though your Jerry Lewis page has given me some of the updated figures.
2 4 of the 5 greatest singer/movie stars that I can immediately think of on the male side have all been covered by you:Dino,.Frankie, Bing and Elvis (as have Doris and Babs among the females).
3 No 5 great singing/acting male is my view Jolson who I think made films from 1923 – 45 and if figures were available for him it would be interesting to compare him with the other 4 – pity not to have the full set ! !
4 I can see where Flora’s coming from about “off screen stuff” and I’ve already made clear that it is a much lesser priority with me than acting/grosses. However as a side issue it can be fun at times and informative. Anything negative in them does not in my eyes detract from a star’s professional and commercial accomplishments.
5. Also on the law of averages there must be many among your readers those who ARE keen on for example your Possibly Interesting Facts and the beauty of your pages is that they cater for all interests whilst at the same time those who prefer to stick to just acting/grosses can conveniently skip everything else.
I was1) talking about how I have already mentioned this over several years on this site for Frank
2) WAlter Wanger’s off screen life is overtaking some movie talk.
FLORA
1 Nice to hear from you again whatever the subject.
2 As I’ve explained it is only in the last couple of months that I have been paying attention to the comments and you will appreciate that I will be largely unfamiliar with the contents of historical posts.
3 I am trying to catch up to some extent by going over the ‘older comments’ in Bruce’s updates.
4 However I realise that in my general ignorance of what has been said before I will undoubtedly at times go over ground that has already been covered by others for as the saying goes “There is nothing new under the sun.”
5. So if I am repeating something that”s ‘old hat’ to you please bear with me. Anyhow I always find your comments interesting whatever you decide to exclude from them
Fond wishes
BOBBY
Hey Bob…you are doing an excellent job of catching up on the comments. Seems I will be doing updates forever. Our Harrison Report research is unlocking lots of information…which means some pages ….hell many pages will need to be done again. When I was updating the Frank page….I noticed that I have not been updating the “link” column when I do a new page….for instance….I am about to unleash a Gene Tierney page…which means I need to go to Richard Widmark, Clark Gable, Vincent Price, Tyrone Power, John Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Josef von Sternberg, Henry Fonda, Danny Kaye, Natalie Wood, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Ann-Margret, Dean Martin, George Roy Hill, Spencer Tracy and William Wanger pages and fix the co-star column because pretty soon we will have a Gene Tierney UMR link….that seems like a lot of work…lol.
Oh yes indeed. again, I have on this site for five years. I do indeed find Gregory Peck facts fascinating.
And there is a difference between a dead star and a live star.
Bobby –
You misunderstand me.
My earlier comment was to Bruce about why I did not write a longer comment.
However, I am always willing to speak 24 hours a day about:
Gregory Peck
Hitchcock
Musicals
Richard Widmark
Glen Ford
Clark Gable
…… do you get the picture?
🙂
FLORA
1 Got the picture.
2 There is something I have been meaning to write to you about Greg when I have more time but in the meantime if you will permit me to join your poetry group –
“What’s that you say Flora Robison?
Our marvellous Greg will always make our day,
Yeah Yeah Yeah !
🙂
You willing to talk about Gregory Peck…no way…that is news to me. Next thing you will be telling me is Bob knows a little about Marlon Brando…..lol.
FLORA
1 Got you ! ! I did that on automatic pilot but it just shows how you have made such an impact on me in a very short space of time with your wide knowledge of not just the cinema,but your poetry and other cultural matters as well.
2 However to paraphrase the line from Liberty Valance: When the mistake appeals more than the fact go with the mistake.
3 So when I’m discussing The Graduate in future is it all right if I refer to the heroine’s mother as Mrs Robison ?
BOBBY
I think that one was made when his career was on a dip and he is just the second star, Fred MacMurray being the lead.
Anyway if u catch up with it I hope U enjoy it.
His career was only on a small dip….two or three flops….but he bounced back strong. Nicolas Cage would not call that a dip at all….lol.
Thanks for the advice
BOB
1 Sometimes if a performer is at the dizzy heights that Frank was in the forties a sudden fall from favour can be exceptionally devastating.
2 According to an interview given by his pal Sammy Davis Jr when Frank was in his ‘dip’ it belied the spirit of the legend that he did it “My Way”.
3 Sammy claimed that Frankie was so low in spirits that he estranged himself from his chums. In those days Sammy was appearing in a Broadway show and he recounted how he would often leave the show late at night to witness Frankie walking up Broadway in the dark and often in a downpour, head bent and cutting a sad and lonely figure.
4 However as the saying goes all’s well that end s well and as you mention his time in the wilderness didn’t last long. Also when he came back he was ultimately bigger than ever and indeed according to Spencer Tracy one of the most powerful figures anywhere in Hollywood.
by the time the 60s arrived
5 Only 2 days to go now !!!
BOB
Sounds like Frank was down in the dumps for sure. But like you say…he bounced back bigger, better and more powerful.
BRUCE:
I see that you will be updating Frank and Bing. They both deserve the full ‘Cogerson Treatment’. Here’s why in Frank’s case.
(1) At the end of the 20th century Time Magazine, after a wide ranging survey published a list of those who were considered the 100 most important people of that century.
(2) The list included academics,politicians, historians, writers, sportsmen entertainers, and ‘ordinary’ people such Rosa Parks who forced a change in the law regarding race discrimination on transport .
(3) There were in all 10 entertainers listed from various professions but only 4 Hollywood stars each for a different reason..
(4) Chaplin was there as a silent comedian. Brando as an actor. Monroe as a ‘Sex Goddess’ And Frankie as a singer.
(5) I can’t remember Chaplin’s placing but Frank was ranked above Brando and Monroe. In short with the possible exception of Chaplin Frank, albeit as a singer, was considered to be the most important person who worked in Hollywood films throughout the entire century.
Best wished BOB
Bobby – Frank Sinatra is my favourite singer of all time – male or female.
I have seen 37 of his films.
I tried to watch The Pride and the Passion but fell asleep. He did not like it either.
I will comment more when this is updated.
FLORA
I thought Pride and Passion was one of his worst movies. He didn’t really suit costume drama. But he redeemed himself the following year with Some Came Running with his pals Dino and Shirley. After that he went on to make a string of hits – in fact did some of his best work in the years after Pride/Passion.
BOBBY
I know. I was just referring to the fact that I have seen 38 of his movies from best to worst and I tried to get through Passion but could not.
I still have not had access to miracle of the Bells although I understand it was on youtube recently.
Falling asleep on a Cary Grant movie? Say it ain’t so Joe….say it ain’t so…..lol. It is not either Grant, Loren or Frank’s best movie…..but I feel it is at least an average movie. 37 Frank movies is pretty impressive….I have watched a few more Frank movies since first writing this page. But nowhere near 37.
Hey Bob…..Frank will probably be the next update….as my new Walter Wanger page was much more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I have never been too happy with my Bing numbers…..and pretty much want to re-examine the numbers for the entire 1930s…..which will take some time…..while Frank on the other will require a small amount of time.
1. Hard to argue that he was NOT one of the most important people of the century. On our second website Frank was one of our most popular pages….on this third website he can not crack the Top 5.
2. So Brando made the list too. I just realized there was a Brando documentary out there…it earned $500 K in theaters….which is pretty good for a documentary.
3. Good stuff in your comments……I have UMR pages on all of them….Monroe and Chaplin are two of my best view getters.
Hope your day is as awesome as mine….saw the new Spielberg movie, swimming with the kids and now getting our cook out going….days like this…are simply awesome!
BRUCE ( ITS MIDNIGHT HERE)
1 How you find the time for all of your other activities and still do large amounts of work on your pages beats me. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating – you obviously are good at time management. Ever thought of teaching courses on it?
2 The Brando doc was released over here for just a few days in only one small art house but it was away before I even knew it was there. A pity for it gets reasonable reviews. I think though like Elvis he went mad in the last years of his life. Apparently Michael Jackson with whom he was very friendly paid him a large fee for acting lessons and he sat in drag while he tutored Michael.
3 At the end of the 20th Variety published a list of its own assessment of the 10 greatest entertainers of the century. Bud, MM and Frankie were again listed this time along with Bogie Elvis, Louis Armstrong and Lucille Ball. The Beatles were ranked No 1 and the rest of the performers were listed alphabetically. I don’t think Charlie made the Variety list.but with your research skills you could probably dig that list out.
4 Anyway on the basis of what we’ve seen so far when the fine tuning of ranking entertainers is applied, the contest for who was the greatest guy(s) of the 20th Century would seem to narrow down to the Beatles and Frankie. As there were 4 Beatles and only one Frank I’m going to break the tie and give it to Frankie That’ll not please everybody but it will keep Flora happy.
Hey Bob
1. Lack of sleep is the secret to my success….lol. Two other factors are important…..(1) the database/program the wife created makes writing a new page very easy…..the first two sites we used….it took almost as much time to write the page as it did to research the page……now writing the page can be down in one sitting. (2) as the movies in the database have grown…..almost every movie subject has a good % already completed….the most recent page was on Walter Wanger had 61 movies….of those 61……30 (just under half) were already done…..that just left 31 movies to research….if I wrote his page in 2012….that completed number would have been less than 10…..so I would have had to research almost his entire career. As I was doing that page….I found better numbers for 2 Henry Fonda movies and 1 Leslie Howard movie….so I had time update their pages as well.
2. When I saw the Brando documentary…I thought of you…..thinking if I should include the documentary on his UMR page…..Steve Lensman talked me into putting some Elvis documentaries on the Elvis page….and the Brando documentary has earned over $500K. That would have been a sight….Brando in drag teaching Michael Jackson how to act.
3.& 4. Those lists sound interesting…..and they are all icons…..Frank is still huge….his songs are still everywhere…..the list of earnings for dead celebrites is always fascinating…..MM, Elvis & Frank are always in the Top 10.
Have you ever had a computer ‘crash’ wiping out large sections of work?
Hey Bob….we have only had one problem like that….somehow our program stopped working…and we had to go back to the last time it was backed up. The end result was most of the work was fine….but all the latest pages were gone….so I got the pleasure of redoing…Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Gary Cooper and a few others all over again…this was back in 2011-2012….so I had to research the people all over again….it was not fun….needless to say…we back up our program all the time now.