The HBO TV-Movie The Rat Pack (1998) starred Ray Liotta as Sinatra in the swinging Las Vegas days of the early 1960s.
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In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogarts death, that called itself 'the summit' or 'the clan,' featuring Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Oceans 11. Based out of the exclusive Copa Room at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the crew consisted of legendary. The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. The story followed a guy named Danny Ocean (Sinatra) who gathers a group of his World War II buddies together to plan the ultimate heist – rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night. The Rat Pack was the undeniable king of all cool-defining celebrity posses. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford formed the core of the Rat Pack, and they appeared together in several movies, including Robin and the Seven Hoods and the. “The Rat Pack” appeared in the motion picture Ocean’s 11 (1960) with Angie Dickenson. The so-called Rat Pack wasnt a group in the normal sense, but consisted of a loose confederation of actors, comedians, and singers lumped together by the media under that name in the early 60s. SHOW/NBC/1976 THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW/NBC/1961-1965 and THE THIN MAN/NBC/1957-1959 starring Peter Lawford.
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The origin of the nickname came about when actress Lauren Bacall saw her husband Humphrey Bogart standing with Frank Sinatra and commented they looked like a “Rat Pack.”Įach member of “The Rat Pack” had a successful TV series, including the musical variety program THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW/CBS/1950-52 and a short-lived variety drama THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW/ABC/1957-58 THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW/NBC/1965-1974 THE SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Their story is profiled in the book “Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the last Great Showbiz Party” written by Shawn Levy (Doubleday, 1997). The collective showbiz nickname of entertainers Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop as they hung out with the group’s leader singer Frank Sinatra.
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