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The "life’s a party" appeal of the Pack was waning.After months of trying to find this information to no avail, I finally figured out how to capture footage, count frames etc, and then got a team of useful idiots beloved friends and fellow Rats together to collect the footage. While the Rat Pack taught America to swing in the first half of the sixties, the latter half would deliver the British Invasion of rock acts such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the counterculture movement, the escalation of the Vietnam War and civil unrest.

Kennedy and Frank Sinatra's Powerful Friendship Their popularity faded with the British Invasion Chairman of the Board Sinatra reportedly fell out of favor with the Kennedys when he asked Attorney General Bobby Kennedy to leave his friend and mob boss Sam Giancana alone in 1961. The juncture of politics and entertainment had seemingly reached its zenith, but Sinatra’s louche style was not as welcome when Kennedy took up residence in the White House. Kennedy had met during the 1950s and become friends, with Sinatra campaigning for Kennedy during his Presidential run and performing the “Star-Spangled Banner” ahead of his nomination at the 1960 Democratic Convention. With the help of Lawford’s familial connection, they also attracted the young Massachusetts Senator who would go on to become the 35th President of the United States. Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns Sinatra helped JFK's political star rise Kennedy at Kennedy's inaugural ball at the Mayflower Hotel on January 20, 1961, in Washington, D.C. The Rat Pack had truly arrived and their names were now synonymous with all the glitz, glamor and cocktail culture Las Vegas was selling.įrank Sinatra with John F.

and Bishop listed as headliners on the marquee. The movie’s final scene showed the group walking away from the Sands Hotel with Sinatra, Lawford, Martin, Davis Jr. Starring all five members, along with Angie Dickinson, Buddy Lester, Cesar Romero and Normal Fell, the plot followed Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and a group of his World War II compatriots who attempt to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist – robbing five casinos: the Sands, Flamingo, Riviera, Sahara and Desert Inn.

In 1960 Ocean’s 11 debuted in theaters in the United States, showcasing the Rat Pack and a romanticized, modern version of Las Vegas. By 1954, up to eight million tourists a year were hitting The Strip and buying tickets for performances by artists such as Marlene Dietrich, Ronald Reagan, Debbie Reynolds, Liberace, Elvis Presley and Sinatra. Tourists flocked to the new resorts, both to gamble and to see A-list stars who were now beaming into living rooms thanks to the growing proliferation of television sets. “He was the spark that changed Vegas from a dusty Western town into something glamorous.” A string of successful movies made the Rat Pack household names “Frank wouldn’t go out after dark without a sport jacket on, let alone perform out of a tuxedo,” former Nevada Lieutenant Governor Lorraine Hunt-Bono said to Smithsonian magazine in 2013.
