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WARNER HOME VIDEO CELEBRATES FRANK SINATRA MAY 13 WITH NEW DVDS & NEW COLLECTIONS. The 22-disc line up features DVD debuts of The Man with the Golden Arm , None But the Brave , Some Came Running , The Tender Trap , The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly Collection Boxed Set & The Rat Pack Ultimate Collector’s Edition .

Reprise Records, Turner Classic Movies , MGM Home Entertainment and the United States Postal Service are also joining Warner Home Video for what will be an unprecedented month-long tribute to the man who left an everlasting impact on popular culture. Also available beginning May 13 will be an all-new CD collection; a television film festival and other specials and a commemorative postage stamp. The initiative is the first from the newly established Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE).

The new DVD collections and their titles are Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years with Sinatra’s Oscar® -nominated performance in The Man with the Golden Arm, along with None But the Brave, Some Came Running, The Tender Trap and Marriage on the Rocks. Frank Sinatra: The Early Years features Double Dynamite, Higher and Higher, Step Lively, It Happened in Brooklyn and The Kissing Bandit.

Frank and his boys get the high-end treatment with The Rat Pack Ultimate Collector’s Edition containing Robin and the Seven Hoods, Ocean’s Eleven, 4 For Texas and the first ever home video release of MGM’s Sergeants 3. The Ultimate Collector’s Edition will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes photo cards; rare correspondence from the Warner Bros. Archives; cool Rat Pack playing cards available only in the collection; a 24-page reproduction of the original 1960’s Ocean’s Eleven press book. The Ultimate Collector’s Edition includes a free movie poster offer for all four films.

Also debuting is a two-disc DVD of Sinatra, the CBS-TV mini-series which was critically acclaimed as a ratings hit and won the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Made-for-TV Movie.” Executive produced by Tina Sinatra and starring Phillip Casnoff (in a Golden Globe® nominated performance) with Frank’s original tracks, the two-disc edition covers 20-years of Sinatra’s life beginning with his Hoboken, New Jersey boyhood through his 1974 return from retirement.

The celebration continues with the newly-designed box set The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly Collection which features The Crooner and The Hoofer in such hit films as On the Town, Take Me Out To The Ballgame and Anchors Aweigh. Special features include interviews with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, outtakes and When the Lion Roars documentary.

Additional titles with new packaging will be Never So Few, High Society, Till the Clouds Roll By and The First Deadly Sin.

FRANK'S MUSIC
Reprise will release NOTHING BUT THE BEST, a single-disc collection from Sinatra’s Reprise Years that contains 21 classic cuts remastered for the first time in 15 years, plus a previously unreleased recording of “Body And Soul” featuring new arrangements. For a limited time, Nothing But The Best will contain a collectible, commemorative Sinatra stamp with official USPS first-day issue cancellation.

FRANK ON TCM
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will honor Sinatra with a month-long festival of films and specials airing Sundays and Wednesdays throughout May. The Wednesday presentations will be hosted by his children: Nancy, Tina and Frank Jr. Among the films included in the May celebration are From Here to Eternity (1953), featuring Sinatra’s Oscar®-winning performance; the musicals Pal Joey (1957), On the Town (1949) and Anchors Aweigh (1945); the Rat Pack comedies Ocean’s Eleven (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962); and powerhouse dramas like The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which earned him a second Oscar nomination and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Also included are four outstanding television specials, including Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (1965) and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967), the latter teaming him up with songstress Ella Fitzgerald and Brazilian songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim.

ABOUT FRANK A beloved entertainer for six decades, Sinatra’s achievements earned him three Oscars, three Golden Globes (including the Cecile B. DeMille Award), 10 personal Grammys (and a total of 21 including those for his albums), four Emmy nominations, a Peabody and recognition at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. A generous charitable contributor, one of his most prestigious awards was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1971.

Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. (It is interesting to note that the city’s post office was renamed in his honor in 2002). Dreaming of becoming the next Bing Crosby, he quit high school at age 15 to pursue a singing career. By the early ‘40s, Sinatra was enjoying a thriving solo career, thanks to his first hit, “All or Nothing at All,” and the adoration of hordes of screaming teenage bobby soxers.

Appearing in a total of 58 films, Sinatra’s first movie appearances were as a singer with the Tommy Dorsey band in Las Vegas Nights (1941) and Ship Ahoy (1943). His acting debut, however, came in 1943 in Higher and Higher which was followed by Step Lively and Anchors Aweigh, the first of three movies in which he played Gene Kelly's sidekick. He went on to star with Kelly in On the Town in 1949. Sinatra first proved himself to be a major dramatic actor with his Academy Award-winning performance in From Here to Eternity and his Oscar-nominated turn in The Man With the Golden Arm.

Sinatra’s musical career was revived after he signed with Capitol Records, and he later formed his own Reprise label. Having recorded more than 1,800 songs in his career, with a dozen of his albums achieving one of the top three spots on Billboard’s charts, Sinatra was definitely A - number 1, Top of the Heap.

In the early ’60s, Sinatra made his Las Vegas debut at the Sands Hotel and continued for years as a main attraction at Caesars Palace, along with the infamous Rat Pack. Frank Sinatra was married four times -- to Nancy Barbato (with whom he had three children, Frank, Jr., Nancy and Tina); actresses Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow and Barbara Marx. Sinatra died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998 at age 82. His tombstone reads, The best is yet to come. For further bio information, please visit www.sintrafamily.com.

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