Acknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Sinatra Before the Movies 5 The Films 8 Higher and Higher (1943) 8 Step Lively (1944) 12 Anchors Aweigh (1945) 16 It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) 21 The Miracle of the Bells (1948) 25 The Kissing Bandit (1948) 29 Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) 32 On the Town (1949) 37 Double Dynamite (1951) 42 Meet Danny Wilson (1952) 46 From Here to Eternity (1953) 51 Suddenly (1954) 56 Young at Heart (1954) 61 Not as a Stranger (1955) 66 Guys and Dolls (1955) 70 The Tender Trap (1955) 79 The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 84 High Society (1956) 94 Johnny Concho (1956) 99 The Pride and the Passion (1957) 103 The Joker Is Wild (1957) 107 Pal Joey (1957) 113 Kings Go Forth (1958) 122 Some Came Running (1958) 127 A Hole in the Head (1959) 134 Never So Few (1959) 141 Can-Can (1960) 148 Ocean's 11 (1960) 153 The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) 159 Sergeants 3 (1962) 163 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 168 Come Blow Your Horn (1963) 172 4 for Texas (1963) 175 Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) 180 None But the Brave (1965) 185 Von Ryan's Express (1965) 189 Marriage on the Rocks (1965) 194 Assault on a Queen (1966) 200 The Naked Runner (1967) 205 Tony Rome (1967) 207 The Detective (1968) 211 Lady in Cement (1968) 216 Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) 220 Sinatra in the '70s 224 The First Deadly Sin (1980) 227 Sinatra After the Movies 234 Chapter Notes 237 Bibliography 245 Index 251