Frank Sinatra Photo 11x14 Jazz Singer Ol Blue Eyes New York Rat Pack Mob Framed

Black & white bust shot photo of New Jersey native “Ol Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra, posed wearing a hat and smiling.

The photo measures 11” x 14” and comes professionally triple matted & framed - READY TO HANG! (Outer dimensions of frame measures 16 7/8” x 19 7/8”)

**This image is secretarially signed in gold. The signature was not penned in the hand of Frank Sinatra, and this item will not pass any authentication process. Being sold strictly for MEMORABILIA PURPOSES ONLY!**

This would be a fun piece to hang on the wall of your Hoboken home, overlooking “New York, New York” - or this would be an excellent piece to hang at your shore house “down the Jersey shore!”

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During the late 1950s and early ’60s, Sinatra frequently appeared on stage and in films with his close-knit band of friends known variously as “The Clan,” “The Summit,” or, most popularly, “The Rat Pack.” Peripheral members included actors Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and Shirley MacLaine and honorary member John F. Kennedy, but the core group was always Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin. The trio performed a largely ad-libbed act of boozy humor, captured well in a recording of a 1962 performance at Chicago’s Villa Venice nightclub, The Summit: In Concert (released 1999). Although the racial and misogynist humour seems dated to the contemporary listener, the act was seen as the height of swinging sophistication in the 1960s.

It was also about this time that Sinatra generated more controversy for his connections with organized crime. In retrospect, even his harshest critics now acknowledge that Sinatra’s association with underworld figures was largely one of involuntary servitude, but there is no question that his fraternizing with notorious individuals such as Sam Giancana eroded his fan base and jeopardized his political friendships. In 1960, at the behest of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Sinatra acted as a liaison between Giancana and the Kennedy family during John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, in order to ensure votes for Kennedy. Within a few years, however, the Kennedy administration launched its war on organized crime and disassociated itself from Sinatra, while Giancana, having lost a powerful political connection, did likewise. Sinatra continued to associate with mob figures throughout the years (“If you sing in joints, you’re gonna know the guys that run them,” was Sinatra’s standard defense), but his association with Giancana was perhaps the most publicized.