Stars wan to play Frank Sinatra

MARTIN Scorsese is facing the challenge of his career casting an actor to play a young Frank Sinatra in his big-budget biopic about the Chairman of the Board.

But insiders tell us his short list for "Sinatra" is sure to include three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp and cocky newcomer James Franco, who both have the swagger - and cheekbones - to pull off a reasonable Ol' Blue Eyes. "One issue for Johnny is his age. He's 45. But he's youthful enough to play nearly anybody," a source said.

Other names we're hearing include Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Timberlake, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bublé and Jon Hamm.

And while there's been chatter about Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in the director's "The Departed" and "The Aviator," a source says it's unlikely, simply because Di- Caprio looks nothing like Sinatra.

Tina Sinatra, who gave Scorsese permission to use her father's recordings, will presumably have veto power over casting since she's an executive producer of the film. Meanwhile, Sinatra fanatics are weighing in with their choices. "I think Johnny Depp is the guy," Donald Trump told Page Six. "He's got Sinatra's angular face, and he's a great actor who can play anything from a pirate to a cross-dressing director in 'Ed Wood' to Willy Wonka."

Michael Feinstein, whose latest CD is "The Sinatra Project" and who will be playing the Loews Regency June 2 to 12, told us: "It should definitely be a strong actor with a physical resemblance, like James Marsden, so that they can use Sinatra's original vocals. Or else it should be Philip Seymour Hoffman, because he can play anybody."

And former Men's Fitness editor Neal Boulton said: "If he lost some weight and got fit again, Harry Connick Jr. could rock that role. He and I used to find ourselves on the same flight to and from LA . . . All he ever wanted was to be Frankie."

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My favorite Frank Sinatra albums

Cycles - 1968
Tracklist:

01. Rain In My Heart
02. From Both Sides Now
03. Little Green Apples
04. Pretty Colours
05. Cycles
06. Wandering
07. By the Time I Get To Phoenix
08. Moody River
09. My Way Of Life
10. Gentle On My Mind


Day By Day - 2002

Tracklist:

Day By Day
Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Five Minutes More 3
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) 3
Make Believe
Mam'selle
Oh! What Seemed To Be
Personality
Somebody Loves Me 2
Tea For Two
The Coffee Song 2
The Night We Called It A Day 2
The Things We Did Last Summer
Time After Time 2
Where Is My Bess

Duets 1 - 1993

Tracklist:

01 The Lady Is a Tramp
02 What Now, My Love-
03 I've Got a Crush on You
04 Summer Wind
05 Come Rain or Come Shine
06 Theme from New York, New York
07 They Can't Take That Away from Me
08 You Make Me Feel So Young
09 Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry-In the
Wee Small Hours of the
10 I've Got the World on a String
11 Witchcraft
12 I've Got You Under My Skin
13 All the Way-One for My Baby (And
One More for the Road)


Duets 2 - 1994

Tracklist:

01 - For Once in My Life
02 - Come Fly With Me
03 - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
04 - The Best Is Yet to Come
05 - Moonlight in Vermont
06 - Fly Me to the Moon
07 - Luck Be a Lady
08 - A Foggy Day
09 - Where or When
10 - Embraceable You
11 - Mack the Knife
12 - How Do You Keep the Music Playing--
My Funny Valentine
13 - My Kind of Town
14 - The House I Live In

Frank Sinatra & Friends

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely - 1987

Tracklist:

Angel Eyes 3
Blues In The Night
Ebb Tide
Gone With The Wind
Good-Bye
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
It's A Lonesome Old Town
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 3
Only The Lonely
Spring Is Here 2
What's New
Willow Weep For Me

Fukuoka_Dome - Japan - 1994

Tracklist:

01.Intro
02.Come Fly With Me
03.Dialogue
04.You Make Me Feel So Young
05.Fly Me To The Moon
06.For Once In My Life
07.Come Rain Or Come Shine
08.The Lady Is A Tramp
09.The Best Is Yet To Come
10.Dialogue
11.Strangers In The Night
12.Where Or When
13.My Kind Of Town
14.Dialogue
15.What Now My Love
16.Dialogue
17.New York New York
18.Dialogue
19.One For My Baby
20.Dialogue
21.Summer Wind
22.My Way
23.Final

Greatest Hits - 1993

Tracklist:

Blue Skies
How Am I To Know
I Think Of You (with Tommy Dorsey)
I'll Never Smile Again (with Tommey Dorsey)
In The Blue Of Evening
Once In A While
Sky Fell Down
Stardust 3
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else (with Tommey Dorsey)
Without A Song 3

Greatest Hits vol. 2

Tracklist:

01. My Way
02. A Man Alone
03. Cycles
04. Bein' Green
05. Love's Been Good To Me
06. I'm Not Afraid
07. Goin' Out Of My Head
08. Something
09. What's Now Is Now
10. Star!
11. The September Of My Years

I'll Be Around

Tracklist:

Aren't You Glad You're You
Come Out Wherever You Are
Come Rain Or Come Shine (other version)
I Only Have Eyes For You 3
I'll Be Around
I'll Never Smile Again
Let Me Love You Tonight
Long Ago (And Far Away) 2
My Romance
Over The Rainbow 2
Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) 3
She's Funny That Way
Some Other Time 2
Speak Low 2
The Way You Look Tonight
They Say It's Wonderful
Without A Song 2
You Are Too Beautiful 2
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me 2

In Concert - 1999

Tracklist:

01 Introduction-You Make Me Feel So Young
02 It Happened in Monterey
03 At Long Last Love
04 I Get a Kick Out of You
05 Just One of Those Things
06 A Foggy Day
07 The Lady Is a Tramp
08 They Can't Take That Away from Me
09 I Won't Dance
10 Sinatra Dialogue
11 When Your Lover Has Gone
12 Violets for Your Furs
13 My Funny Valentine
14 Glad to Be Unhappy
15 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
16 The Tender Trap
17 Hey! Jealous Lover
18 I've Got You Under My Skin
19 Oh! Look at Me Now

In The Wee Small Hours - 1992

Tracklist:

01 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
02 Mood Indigo
03 Glad To Be Unhappy
04 I Get Along Without You Very Well
05 Deep In A Dream
06 I See Your Face Before Me
07 Can't We Be Friends
08 When Your Lover Has Gone
09 What Is This Thing Called Love
10 Last Night When We Were Young
11 I'll Be Around
12 Ill Wind
13 It Never Entered My Mind
14 Dancing On The Ceiling
15 I'll Never Be The Same
16 This Love Of Mine

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998)

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and presidents, including President John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".

Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with sales of his music dwindling, and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scored a hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.

Sinatra also forged a career as a dramatic actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm. He also starred in such musicals as High Society, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls and On the Town. Sinatra was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.