Fabulous Facts About Frank Sinatra. You know that Frank Sinatra was as talented a singer as he was an actor. That he had a collection of nicknames, from The Voice to Ol’ Blue Eyes. And that he liked to do things “My Way.” In honor of what would have been the legendary crooner’s 1. Frank Sinatra. 1. HIS BIRTH WAS A TRAUMATIC ONE.

Born on December 1. Hoboken, New Jersey, Francis Albert Sinatra was blue and not breathing when he was yanked out of his mother with forceps. Thought to be dead, the infant was laid on the kitchen counter while the doctor attended to his mother. His grandmother picked up the newborn, stuck him under some cold water, and little Frank wailed out his first song.

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THOSE FORCEPS CAUSED SOME DAMAGE. Those forceps left their mark on the left side of Sinatra's face, in the shape of a scar that ran from the corner of his mouth to his jaw line and a cauliflower ear. As a teenager, he was nicknamed “Scarface.” He also suffered a bad case of adolescent acne, which left his cheeks pitted. Self- conscious about his looks as an adult, Sinatra often applied makeup to hide the scars. Even with that, he hated to be photographed on his left side. The physical insecurities didn't end there: Sinatra also wore elevator shoes to boost his five- foot- seven stature.

HE WAS A BIG BABY. The future crooner weighed a whopping 1. Watch Eddie The Eagle Online Hollywoodreporter. HE CARRIED HIS OWN P. A. SYSTEM. When Sinatra was just starting out as a singer, he came prepared: he carried his own P. A. system to the dives in which he typically performed. HIS BAD BOY IMAGE WAS REAL. Sinatra's bad boy image began with his infamous 1.

The charge? The most Frank reason possible: “seduction.” The charge was reduced to “adultery,” then later dropped. HE WAS ONE OF AMERICA’S FIRST TEEN IDOLS.

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In the 1. 94. 0s, Frank—or Frankie, as he was then known—became one of America's first teen idols. The sound that greeted me was absolutely deafening,” Sinatra later recalled of a series of shows he performed in 1. New York City’s Paramount Theater. I was scared stiff. I couldn't move a muscle.”7. SOME OF THOSE SCREAMING FANS WERE PAID TO BE SCREAMING FANS.

Not to take anything away from his amazing voice and his ability to excite the female throngs, but the bobbysoxer craze Sinatra incited (so called because the coed fans wore Catholic school- style bobby socks, rolled down to their ankles) had a little help. George Evans, Sinatra’s publicist, auditioned girls for how loud they could scream, then paid them five bucks and placed them strategically in the audience to help whip up excitement. A SHORT FILM GOT HIM TAGGED AS A COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZER. In 1. 94. 5, Sinatra made a short film, The House I Live In, that spoke out against anti- Semitism and racial intolerance. Ironically, a decade later, its liberal slant got him tagged as a Communist sympathizer during the Mc. Carthy trials. (Sinatra never testified.)9.

THE FBI HAD A FILE ON HIM. Sinatra’s FBI file had been started by J. Edgar Hoover after a radio listener wrote to the Bureau, saying, "The other day I turned on a Frank Sinatra program and I thought how easy it would be for certain- minded manufacturers to create another Hitler here in America through the influence of mass hysteria." Sinatra had also been investigated by the FBI for reportedly paying doctors $4. HE HELPED INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT ALBUM AND BOX SET. In 1. 94. 6, Sinatra's debut release, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, helped introduce both the concept album and the box set.

At a time when long- playing records were still novel, Sinatra issued a set of 7. It sold for a hefty $2. But the price didn't prevent it from topping the charts for seven weeks. Two years later, it became one of the first- ever pop music vinyl 1. LPs. 1. 1. HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE SEVERAL TIMES. Sinatra's star fell hard in the early 1.

He was so low that he even attempted suicide. Walking through Times Square, he saw mobs of girls waiting to get into a concert by new singing sensation Eddie Fisher. Feeling washed up, Sinatra went back to his apartment, put his head on the stove, and turned on the gas. Luckily, his manager found him in time, lying on the floor, sobbing. Sinatra made three other suicide attempts, all of them in the throes of his volatile relationship with actress Ava Gardner.

THE RAT PACK DIDN’T CALL THEMSELVES THAT. With his pals Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford, Sinatra led the Vegas clique known as the Rat Pack.

The name was coined by actress Lauren Bacall years earlier, to describe a Hollywood drinking circle that included her then- husband Humphrey Bogart and Sinatra. The guys in the Rat Pack actually referred to themselves by a different name—The Summit—playing on a 1.

Paris between top world leaders. HE REUNITED JERRY LEWIS AND DEAN MARTIN. In 1. 97. 6, Sinatra appeared on Jerry Lewis’ annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon and surprised the host when he brought out Dean Martin, Lewis’ former comedy partner, from whom he’d been estranged for 2. IN HOLLYWOOD, HE WAS KNOWN AS “ONE- TAKE CHARLIE.”Sinatra’s preference for approaching film roles in a spontaneous, rather than over- rehearsed, way earned him the nickname of “One- Take Charlie” in Hollywood.

HE THREATENED TO HAVE WOODY ALLEN’S LEGS BROKEN. Sinatra was married to Mia Farrow from 1. In Farrow’s autobiography, What Falls Away, she shared that when Sinatra learned of Woody Allen’s affair with Soon- Yi Previn, he offered to have the filmmaker’s legs broken. A MAGAZINE CLAIMED THAT HE GOT HIS STAMINA FROM WHEATIES.

In 1. 95. 6, Confidential magazine disclosed how Sinatra managed to satisfy so many Hollywood starlets—Wheaties! The article stated, "Where other Casanovas wilt under the pressure of a torrid romance, Frankie boy just pours himself a big bowl of crispy, crackly Wheaties and comes back rarin' to go.” General Mills kept quiet as the tabloids talked up Wheaties' power to fuel Sinatra's exploits, and it wasn't long before teenage boys were stampeding the cereal aisles. HE HAD TWO HITS CALLED “NEW YORK, NEW YORK.”Sinatra actually had two hits called "New York, New York." The first was in 1. On the Town, and was written by Leonard Bernstein, Adolph Green, and Betty Comden. Thirty years later, Sinatra cut "(Theme From) New York, New York," by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Originally from Martin Scorsese's 1.

New York, New York, Sinatra turned it into his signature song and onstage closer. Watch The Way Home Online Gorillavid here. He also angered the lyricist, Ebb, by customizing the words (Sinatra had done this to a few songwriters, most famously Cole Porter), adding the climactic phrase "A- number- one." In 1.

Sinatra recorded the song again, this time as a duet with Tony Bennett. HE HATED BEING CALLED “CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.”It’s a nickname he acquired while president at Reprise Records. According to his fourth (and final) wife, Barbara, Sinatra hated it. 1. HE WASN’T A FAN OF “MY WAY” OR “STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT.”Barbara also maintains “My Way,” one of Frank’s most loved songs, did absolutely nothing for him. But that was a kind assessment compared to “Strangers in the Night,” which Frank called “a piece of sh*t” and “the worst f**king song I’ve ever heard.”2.

MY WAY” HAS BEEN COVERED BY MORE THAN 6. PEOPLE. Sinatra may not have loved it, but “My Way” has been covered by more than 6. Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Sid Vicious. It has also been recorded in various languages.

SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER PERFORMING “MY WAY.”Since 2. Sinatra classic. Dubbed the “‘My Way’ Killings,” the strange phenomenon has gotten so bad that some bar owners have removed it from the selection list entirely. HE INADVERTENTLY HELPED NAME SCOOBY- DOO. At least according to former CBS exec Fred Silverman, who found inspiration in Frank’s signature “Scoo- Be- Do- Be- Do.”2. HE DIRECTED THE FIRST JAPANESE/AMERICAN CO- PRODUCTION. In 1. 96. 5, Sinatra stepped behind the camera to make his directorial debut with None But the Brave, which was produced with Toho Studios. It was the first Japanese/American co- production filmed in the United States.