Memorable Quotations:

• "Wouldn't it be wonderful to be married to a girl who played baseball?" --as Dennis Ryan in TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1949).
• "You're the prettiest cab driver I've ever seen." --as Chip in ON THE TOWN (1949).
• "Only my friends can call me a little wop! " --as Angelo Maggio in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953).
• "I'd ask you to join us, Joe, but I don't want you." --as Charlie Reader in THE TENDER TRAP (1955).
• "Miss Gillis, through the years I've found that sitting across from an attractive girl is not only pleasant, it's good for my digestion." --as Charlie Reader in THE TENDER TRAP (1955).
• "You know, I've been meaning to tell you something for days.  You are the softest girl." --as Charlie Reader in THE TENDER TRAP (1955).
• "Some words take on a different meaning in the dark." --as Charlie Reader in THE TENDER TRAP (1955).
• "I'm blind and I'm stupid." --as Charlie Reader in THE TENDER TRAP (1955).

Music Clips:

• "I Begged Her" (clip) from ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945) sung with Gene Kelly (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records).
• "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (clip) from ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945) (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records).
• "Title Song" (clip) from THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954) (a .MP3 file courtesy Capital Records).
• "Title Song" (clip) from YOUNG AT HEART (1954) (a .MP3 file).
• "Love is the Tender Trap" (clip) from THE TENDER TRAP (1955) (a .MP3 file courtesy Capital Records).
• "All the Way" (clip) from THE JOKER IS WILD (1957) (a .MP3 file courtesy Capital Records).
• "High Hopes" (clip) from A HOLE IN THE HEAD (1959) (a .MP3 file courtesy Capital Records).

Video Clips:

• "In the Hole" with Montgomery Clift in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) (a .MOV file courtesy Time Magazine Online)
• "You're Sensational" with Grace Kelly in HIGH SOCIETY (1956) (a .MOV file courtesy Time Magazine Online).
• "Original Theatrical Trailer" from A HOLE IN THE HEAD (1959) with Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter and Keenan Wynn (a .MOV file courtesy AMC).

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Further Reading:

• Sinatra, an annotated bibliography, 1939-1998 by Leonard Mustazza (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999).
• Frank Sinatra and popular culture: essays on an American icon edited by Leonard Mustazza (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998).
• The films of Frank Sinatra by Gene Ringgold and Clifford McCarty (New York, NY: Carol Pub. Group, c1989).
• Lovers: great romances of our time through the eyes of legendary writers by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).

More Blue-Eyed Links:

• Time 100: Frank Sinatra
• A Frank Sinatra Musical Tribute
• A Sinatra Family Album
• Frank Sinatra- superstar of the 1950s
• The Sinatra Tribute Page
• BlueEyes
• Sinatra: The British Connection
• The Kennedy Center Honors: Frank Sinatra
• PBS: Great Performances: Frank Sinatra
• The Sinatra Music Society
• Brad's Frank Sinatra Tribute
• Forever Sinatra
• FBI Freedom of Information: Frank Sinatra
• Yahoo's Frank Sinatra Club
• TVNow's monthly Frank Sinatra schedule -when his films will be on TV.
• Greatest Films: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
• Boxoffice Online: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
• A review of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by Walter Frith
• Great MGM Musicals: HIGH SOCIETY
• Class Act: HIGH SOCIETY
• Andrew's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Page
• Great MGM Musicals: ON THE TOWN
• Jim's TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY Page
• Great MGM Musicals: TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY
• A review of VON RYAN'S EXPRESS by Edwin Jahiel

Fan Club:

• The Sinatra Society of America
  c/o Charles Pignone
  P.O. Box 269
  Newtonville, NY 12128

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