Belknap Collection, Popular Performers 1941- : Frank Sinatra.

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Belknap Collection, Popular Performers 1941- : Frank Sinatra.

The Sinatra Collection contains items of interest concerning his film and musical career and some items concerning his often gossiped about private life. Most items from the 1940s through the 1960s are music scores from his movies while later materials center on biographical matter. There are clippings and covers from newspapers and magazines, advertisments, movie biopic reviews, and "greatest hits" sheet music collections that start well before his death in 1998. There are obituaries and memorial collector's items dating from after his death and the collection continues to grow to this day.

1 box (1 lin. ft.) : ill., ports., music.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7779580

University of Florida

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George A. Smathers Libraries. Dept. of Special and Area Studies Collections.

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Sinatra, Frank

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The son of italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra began singing and doing impersonations in school which led to his future career as singer with the Hoboken Four in 1935. The quartet broke up in 1936 and Frank started working his way through the music industry until he finally got his big break in 1940. He would become one of Hollywood's leading men for the next two decades and a constant music hall draw after that until very close to the day he died in 1998. (Adapted from the Official Sinatra Family...

Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts

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