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The film career of Frank Sinatra spanned several decades, between the 1940s and the 1960s. Sinatra starred in movies from 1944 up until the 1980s. ==1940s== Sinatra tried to break into Hollywood in the early 1940s, and spent much time watching directors and actors in action. He said of it: "I went around to all the different sets in the studio, and watched different people work, all the veterans. I'd stand up on a ladder way in the back and pick up pointers from these people.I still have never been to a dramatic coach, I suppose I should have. I almost regret I didn't". Sinatra made his film debut in 1941, performing in an uncredited sequence in ''Las Vegas Nights'', singing "I'll Never Smile Again" with Tommy Dorsey's The Pied Pipers. He received his first credit for singing "The Last Call for Love", "Poor You" and "Moonlight Bay" in Edward Buzzell's ''Ship Ahoy'' the following year, which starred Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell. In 1943 he had a cameo role along with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie in Charles Barton's ''Reveille with Beverly'', making a brief appearance singing "Night and Day". The following year he was given his first leading role opposite Michèle Morgan and Jack Haley in 1944 in Tim Whelan's musical film ''Higher and Higher'' for RKO Pictures, playing himself. He again worked with Whelan in another musical of that year, ''Step Lively'', co-starring George Murphy and Adolphe Menjou. Biographer Tim Knight wrote that that this was the film that Hollywood "fully unleashed 'The Voice' on the movies", giving Sinatra a role as a "sweetly naive playwright who is swept into scheming Broadway director's Gordon Miller's chaotic universe". In 1945, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Sinatra opposite Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson in the Technicolor musical ''Anchors Aweigh'', in which he played a sailor on leave in Hollywood for four days. A major success, it garnered several Academy Award wins and nominations, and the song "I Fall in Love Too Easily", sung by Sinatra in the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Knight notes that while the film "drew Sinatra's young, excitable fans", it also "attracted an older audience who never would have stood in line all night just to hear him sing", making him into a "truly cross generational star". That same year, he was loaned out to RKO to star in a short film titled ''The House I Live In''. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, this film on tolerance and racial equality earned a special Academy Award shared among Sinatra and those who brought the film to the screen, along with a special Golden Globe for "Promoting Good Will". In 1946, Sinatra returned to MGM to make ''Till the Clouds Roll By'', a Technicolor musical biopic of Jerome Kern, directed Richard Whorf, with an ensemble cast which included Robert Walker, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, June Allyson and Van Heflin. Santopietro considered the film to be the "dodo bird of MGM musicals—it moves but never flies", but noted that Sinatra had a cameo in the climax of the film, singing "Ol' Man River". The following year, he featured in another musical directed by Whorf of MGM, ''It Happened in Brooklyn'', co-starring Peter Lawford, Kathryn Grayson and Jimmy Durante. The film contains six songs written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, including "The Song's Gotta Come From the Heart", in which Sinatra performed a duet with Durante. ''Variety'' noted: "Much of the lure will result from Frank Sinatra's presence in the cast. Guy's acquired the Bing Crosby knack of nonchalance, throwing away his gag lines with fine aplomb. He kids himself in a couple of hilarious sequences and does a takeoff on Jimmy Durante, with Durante aiding him, that's sockeroo." In 1948 Sinatra appeared with Grayson in ''The Kissing Bandit'', playing a shy, Boston-bred son of a robber, who falls for the daughter of the Spanish Governor of California. The film was a financial disaster, with the studio losing over $2.5 million, making it one of the least successful musicals in MGM history. The film was also poorly received critically, and is often cited as the worst film of Sinatra's career. Also in 1948, Sinatra played a priest, one of his most unlikely roles according to Knight, opposite Fred MacMurray and Alida Valli in Irving Pichel's ''The Miracle of the Bells''. It fared poorly upon release, with ''Time Magazine'' declaring in their review that "The Archangel Michael, familiarly picture, ought to sue". In 1949, Sinatra co-starred with Gene Kelly in the Technicolor musical ''Take Me Out to the Ball Game'', a film set in 1908, in which Sinatra and Kelly play baseball players who are part-time vaudevillians. It was well received critically and became a commercial success. That same year, Sinatra teamed up with Kelly for a third time in ''On the Town'', playing a sailor on leave in New York City. Today the film is rated very highly by critics, and in 2006 it ranked No. 19 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Film career of Frank Sinatra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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