Introduction
The Background story of Frank Sinatra is as varied as his talents. Accordingly, all information, hence forth has been verified through a minimum of three sources. Through many trials as well as tribulations that would have stopped the average man in his tracks Frank Sinatra was able to overcome in addition to flourishing. However, he did not flourish unscathed, through the Observational Learning Theory by Albert Bandura and the Personality as a Pattern of Interpersonal Interactions Theory by Harry Stack Sullivan Frank Sinatra can be understood from his failed marriages to his major depression.
Background
Born December 12, 1915 in a small town called Hoboken, New Jersey Frank Sinatra was born. Frank was born only child to Italian
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His first marriage to his summer love, Nancy Barbato , was a short one. Together they had three Nancy Sinatra, Francis Wayne Sinatra and Christina Sinatra. Frank spent most of their marriage in affaires with other Hollywood starlets such as Maryland Maxwell and Ava Gardner (Freedland, 1997, Sachs, 1995 Weisman, & Valoppi, 2017). Frank did not try to keep these affairs private, hence causing Nancy an excruciating amount of embarrassment that resulted in their divorce. A month after Nancy and Franks divorce was final he married Ava Gardner. Together their marriage was toxic, filled with vicious arguments, violence combined with excessive alcohol consumption. Long after their marriage ended Frank Sinatra still took care of Ava financially. It is said that Frank strayed from Ava during their marriage, with Marlon …show more content…
He also was awarded eleven Grammy awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. That same year Frank won the Peabody Award for ‘A Man and His Music’, an album that was released for his 50th birthday. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian award in the US, was given to frank in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, in May of 1998 Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack with his wife Barbara by his side (Sachs, 1995, Sinatra, 1985, Tribune, 1998). During his last few years Frank started to have issues with high blood pressure with Dementia. Franks death impacted America so much that Las Vegas dimmed their lights furthermore they stopped spinning in the casino for a minute of remembrance (Freedland, 1997, Sinatra, 1985 Weisman, & Valoppi, 2017). His popularity combined with admiration has only been matched three times in American history by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Michael
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Sinatra was not just a singer he was also an actor, television and radio personality, and on occasion a producer, direct, and conductor. (Pond, n.d) “Sinatra earned three Oscars, three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, ten personal Grammy's (and a total of 20 for his albums), an Emmy, a Peabody, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 1983. A generous charitable contributor, he was honored with the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.” (Pond, n.d) Sinatra was named by some as the top entertainer of the twentieth Century. As a person Sinatra was known as a philanthropist he would donate over a billion dollars to charities around the world through his life time. He would also contribute to civil rights for African Americans through his work with Count Basie and appearing in the movie “From Here to Eternity” which denounced rac...
Sinatra’s early years were spent in Hoboken, dreaming of a “better life';. Francis A. Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Being members of the Catholic faith, he was not baptized until April 2, 1916. He faced adversity as soon as he was born, nearly dying of birth complications that left him scarred for three months after he was conceived. As, a result of this, he was often bantered by members of his class and children of his neighborhood, who called ...
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