Frank Sinatra on Film: 1942-'51

Let's end the week with clips of Frank Sinatra singing in films between 1942 and 1951, when he was still idolized by women and before middle-aged men stole him away in the mid-1950s:

Here's Sinatra singing Poor You from Ship Ahoy in 1942 with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra...



Here's Sinatra singing The Music Stopped from Higher and Higher in 1943...



Here's Sinatra, again from A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening...



Here's Sinatra and Gloria DeHaven singing Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are from Step Lively in 1944 (the arranger was Axel Stordahl)...



Here's Sinatra at a Columbia Records recording session singing If You Are But a Dream in 1944, with Axel Stordahl conducting. Notice how hip Sinatra's phrasing is after taking the intro as a straight croon...



Here's Sinatra and Jane Russell singing a duet on Kisses and Tears from Double Dynamite in 1951...



And here's Sinatra singing She's Funny That Way from Meet Danny Wilson in 1951. Sounds like Bobby Hackett on cornet to me. ("That's the way we go")...