WARNER HOME VIDEO CELEBRATES FRANK SINATRA MAY 13 WITH NEW DVDS & NEW COLLECTIONS
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
Burbank, Calif. February 6, 2008 – Frank Sinatra is “widely held to be the greatest singer in American pop history and one of the most successful entertainers of the last century.”[1] Beginning May 13, Warner Home Video will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of “The Chairman of the Board” by releasing a total of 22 of his films in five new collections, with 11 titles brand new to DVD.
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).
Frank’s Movies (See last page for complete information. All orders due April 8.)
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 UCE 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 UCE 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. The compilation will be available at all retail outlets and online at
FrankSinatra.Com for a suggested list price of $18.98.
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
Sinatra Family : Official Web Site
Frank’s Films’ Details
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE RAT PACK ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Ocean’s 11
Danny Ocean with his 10 partners in crime devise a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip and electronically rig five big casino vaults to raid them all in the same instant. This original version of Ocean’s 11 is an entertaining best bet.
Special Features:
Commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr. and Angie Dickinson
Interactive Las Vegas Then and Now Map Casino Vignettes
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson excerpt featuring guest host Frank Sinatra and guest Angie Dickinson
Cast/filmmaker profiles
Theatrical trailers
4 For Texas
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play wily business rivals in this Wild West lark of gambling and romance. The film features appearances by Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, The Three Stooges, Victor Buono and Charles Bronson.
Special Features:
· Vintage making-of featurette
· Cast/filmmaker profiles
· Theatrical trailer
Robin and the Seven Hoods
What’s yours is mine. This mirthful adaptation gives the Robin Hood legend a Depression-era, mob town Chicago setting. And the jazzy Sammy Cahn/James Van Heusen score is the perfect match for this all-star cast.
Special Features:
· Commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr.
· Vintage featurette What They Did to Robin Hood
· Cast/filmmaker profiles
· Theatrical trailers
Sergeant’s 3
Produced by Frank Sinatra, this second Rat Pack movie has Sinatra and gang (including Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.) playing the wildest characters in the west, sure to be an entertaining ride.
Special Features:
· Audio commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr.
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE GOLDEN YEARS
None but the Brave
There are two sides to every war. Making his directorial debut, Frank Sinatra also stars in this suspenseful World War II saga about mistaken identity, unexpected heroism and the unsteady peace that ensues.
Special Features:
· Theatrical trailer
The Man with the Golden Arm
Drummer Frankie Machine is out of detox and eager to get on with a big band career. Sinatra’s piercing, Academy AwardÒ-nominated portrayal is one of his best in this film, known for its landmark on-screen depictions of drug abuse.
Special Features:
· New Featurette: Shoot Up/Shoot Out: The Story Behind The Man with the Golden Arm
· Theatrical trailer
Some Came Running
Frank Sinatra plays World War II veteran Dave Hirsh, whose arrival back in his hometown brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day. Costar Shirley MacLaine was nominated for her performance.
Special Features:
· New Featurette: The Story of Some Came Running – an exclusive ‘making-of’ retrospective
· Theatrical Trailer
The Tender Trap
Debbie Reynolds sets her marital sights on Manhattan talent agent Sinatra, who is dedicated to life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. Love is indeed The Tender Trap.
Special Features:
· New Featurette: Frank’s Way
· Soundtrack remastered in 5.1 audio
· Theatrical Trailer
Marriage on the Rocks
A bored wife (Deborah Kerr) swaps her fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Sinatra) for his swinging bachelor best friend Ernie (Martin) – and sparks fly.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE EARLY YEARS
Double Dynamite
Frank Sinatra is underpaid bank teller Johnny Dalton, who comes across big money – and big trouble – in this frothy comedy.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
It Happened in Brooklyn
Times aren’t easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that’s easy.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
Step Lively
As a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice, Frank Sinatra steps into his first top billing in this antic backstage musical based on the Broadway/Marx Brothers movie hit Room Service.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
Higher and Higher
Making his acting debut in this merry musical comedy about a get-rich scheme with comic complications, Sinatra plays the boy next door who definitely knows his way around a song.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
The Kissing Bandit
Timid Ricardo haplessly continues his father’s bandito tradition, and so The Kissing Bandit rides again – if he can somehow manage to stay on horseback.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
THE FRANK SINATRA & GENE KELLY COLLECTION
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Combining baseball with that other all-American pastime of romance, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play a pair of 1900s vaudevillians who spend the winter performing onstage and the summer performing on the field.
Special Features:
· Deleted Musical Numbers Baby Doll and Boys and Girls Like You and Me
· Notes on Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly
· 3 Theatrical Trailers
On The Town
New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town – especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights – sights that include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen.
Special Features:
· Theatrical Trailer
Anchors Aweigh
A wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood, this milestone of movie fantasy includes live-action fancy footwork with animated Jerry (of Tom and JerryÔ).
Special Features:
· Archival interview with animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
· Excerpt from the MGM: When the Lion Roars Documentary Series
· 3 Theatrical trailers
Additional WHV Titles New-To-DVD
Sinatra
Executive produced by daughter Tina Sinatra, this award-winning miniseries documents Sinatra’s remarkable life, covering more than 20 years, from boyhood through his return from retirement in 1974. The Legend himself collaborated in the making and the show features his own singing and some astonishing personal revelations.
FRANK SINATRA 10TH ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION
Street Date: May 13, 2008
WHV Orders Due April 8, 2008
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE RAT PACK ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Catalog #: 1000037245
$59.92 SRP Collection; $12.97 SRP Individual Titles (except Sergeant’s 3 which is only available as part of the collection)
All Films in Color and Not Rated
Ocean’s 11
Run Time: 127 minutes
Catalog#: 1000036680
4 For Texas
Run Time: 115 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036651
Robin and the Seven Hoods
Run Time: 123 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036692
Sergeant’s 3
Run Time: 112 minutes
Exclusive to the collection
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE GOLDEN YEARS
Catalog #: 1000009820
$39.92 SRP Collection; $12.97 SRP Individual Titles
All Films Not Rated
None But The Brave
Run Time: 106 minutes
Catalog#: 1000012249
Color
The Man with the Golden Arm
Run Time: 119 minutes
Catalog #: 1000012250
B&W
Some Come Running
Run Time: 136 minutes
Catalog #: 1000015049
Color
The Tender Trap
Run Time: 111 minutes
Catalog #: 1000015050
Color
Marriage on the Rocks
Run Time: 109 minutes
Catalog #: 1000012252
FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION: THE EARLY YEARS
Catalog #: 1000037360
$39.92 SRP Collection; $12.97 SRP Individual Titles
All Films Not Rated and B&W
Double Dynamite
Run Time: 80 minutes
Catalog#: 1000037098
It Happened in Brooklyn
Run Time: 103 minutes
Catalog #: 1000037043
Step Lively
Run Time: 88 minutes
Catalog #: 100037097
Higher and Higher
Run Time: 90 minutes
Catalog #: 1000037096
The Kissing Bandit
Run Time: 100 minutes
Catalog #: 100037095
Color
THE FRANK SINATRA & GENE KELLY COLLECTION
Catalog #: 1000037406
$24.98 SRP Collection; $12.97 SRP Individual Titles
All Films Not Rated and Color
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Run Time: 93 minutes
Catalog#: 1000036693
On the Town
Run Time: 98 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036353
Anchors Aweigh
Run Time: 140 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036695
SINATRA - TV Miniseries
$19.98 SRP
Run Time: 240 minutes
Catalog #: 1000035913
Four additional Warner Home Video titles available in new packaging
$12.97 SRP each title:
Never So Few
Run Time: 125 minutes
Catalog#: 1000036657
High Society
Run Time: 111 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036354
The First Deadly Sin
Run Time: 112 minutes
Catalog #: 1000036681
Till the Clouds Roll By
Run Time: 132 minutes
Catalog #: 100036691
MGM TITLES
Sergeant’s 3
Gunga Din