Happy Birthday: Frank Sinatra (1915–1998)

Frank Sinatra (1915–1998)

Born: December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Died: May 14, 1998 (age 82) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Barbara Marx (11 July 1976 – 14 May 1998) (his death)
Mia Farrow (19 July 1966 – 16 August 1968) (divorced)
Ava Gardner (7 November 1951 – 5 July 1957) (divorced)
Nancy Barbato (4 February 1939 – 29 October 1951) (divorced) (3 children)

[after the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo and Dean Martin] I’m next. I ain’t scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there.

[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd – in plain fact, dirty – lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth. This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac…