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Frank Sinatra was selected as one of the five recipients of the 1983 Kennedy Center Honors, alongside Katharine Dunham, Jimmy Stewart, Elia Kazan and Virgil Thomson. Quoting Henry James in honoring Sinatra, Reagan said that "art was the shadow of humanity," and said that Sinatra had "spent his life casting a magnificent and powerful shadow."[19]
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Sinatra dropped out of high school at 15, and supported himself with a series of odd jobs. On a whim, he entered in 1935 radio talent program called Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Paired with a singing and dancing trio called the Three Flashes by a promoter, Sinatra took the stage as part of the hastily named Hoboken Four, and the impromptu teaming walked away with first prize. Within a few years, he was discovered by trumpeter Harry James, a former member of Benny Goodman's orchestra who was looking to hire a featured singer to front his own band, The Music Makers.
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Jeanne Carmen, a 1950s pinup girl, B-movie actress and trick-shot golfer who hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra and other stars, has died. She was 77.Carmen died of lymphoma on Thursday at her Orange County home, said her son, Brandon James.Born on Aug. 4, 1930, in Paragould,...
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Sinatra began singing in neighborhood amateur shows while still in his teens. His first professional contract came as a singing waiter and master of ceremonies at a club in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1938. After attending one of his performances at the club, trumpet player Harry James recruited Sinatra to be the lead singer in his band, the Music Makers.
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Through Cohen Sinatra got involved with James Tarantino and his blackmail/scandal sheet, Hollywood Nite Life. Tarantino, an ex-sportswriter who had known Sinatra from the New York boxing scene in the early ‘40s, used the tabloid in a blackmail scheme. He would dig up dirt on Hollywood celebrities and then threaten to publish his information if the stars didn’t advertise with him.
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Harry James heard Frank sing at The Rustic Cabin in 1939 and signed him to a two-year contract as lead vocalist in James' new band. This was June of 1939. Sinatra would be associated with Harry James for only six months.
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