How Barbara And Frank Sinatra’s Collection Captures The Glitz and Glamour of Golden-Age Hollywood
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- On her journey from Bosworth, Missouri to the heart of Hollywood, Barbara Sinatra always maintained a keen eye and charitable spirit. Join Wendy Holden, journalist and author of Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank, in this introduction to the glamorous life and collection of Barbara Sinatra. Together with her husband Frank Sinatra, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, Barbara collected a diverse selection of art and objects that reflected the couple’s passion for excellence. Highlights of the collection include film and entertainment memorabilia, including Frank Sinatra’s personal copies of scripts from movies and projects across his career as well as fine art, decorative art, and jewelry collected by the couple. Lady Blue Eyes: Property of Barbara and Frank Sinatra will be offered in a dedicated auction in New York on 6 December, as well as an online sale from 27 November - 7 December. (New York & Online | 27 November - 7 December)
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i was the chauffeur bodyguard for Mrs Sinatra way back in the late 1980s when Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. and Lisa Minelli performed at the Royal Albert hall . One day out in Mayfair on a shopping trip, which was for jewelry in-fact, Barbara told me a few stories about the Marx brothers and how she'd been married to one of them, also i remember Micheal Caine and Roger Moore always attending each show and beforehand drinking a bottle of Bourbon together with Frank Sinatra in his hotel suite at the Savoy hotel before the concert began. I could tell of many other stories including the young flower shop girl who loved me to bits for 9 days and also the trip to Heathrow Airport to pick up a box full of Clams which was flown in from a restaurant out of Los Angeles because Frank Sinatra couldn't eat the London clams............Youch !!!! Other than that Barbara was a beautiful and very friendly lady , she even asked me if she could sit in front of my Limousine and then began asking me about my life, amazing eh !!! Anyway those were golden times and crazy memories and all i can say is God bless them all !!!!
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To Stevie, wow the stories you could tell. I could listen to you all day.
Liza, Michael
Minnelli
Great share...thank you
Jackpot!!!
Frank was a civil rights champion and raised a billion dollars for charity.❤️🙏🏽
She was very popular in the Palm Springs area for years so Barbara must have had some good qualities.
My dad played a solo music gig at Frank's LA home in I believe the late 1980's. He spoke often about how warm and gracious Barbara was that evening. Frank was...Frank, pretty buzzed...he told my Sicilian dad (birth name DiPaola) "you're with me!" !
that same frozen smile and hair in all the pictures.. no talent, smart, pretty... opportunist. kept him from his kids... bad.. get a bad feeling about her.
I hate to ask, but are you Marilyn Michaels the singer/comedienne?
well you know......I always laugh when she says Frank was the next door neighbor and how they got together sort of by chance........She Left Zeppo for him! Marriage wasn't "breaking down. Frank was a way better deal!!!!
@@valeriebellomo3573 Love Kitty Kelley or hate her, she nailed it in her book about Frank. She described the Marx house next door as Barbara's "launching pad" to Frank. Zeppo, btw, was a wealthy man himself. But Barbara loved Frank more because there was more money to love.
Those Frank art work pieces are really good.
Dad was long time friends with Mr & Mrs Sinatra ever since they had their pre wedding dinner at the Ingleside, dad sponsored alot of charities for Angel View with Barbara before and after Frank's death.
Frank was a regular at my dads place, "Melvyns"
My stepmom was very involved with Barbara and the children's center before my fathers death.
Times change, people pass away.
Palm Springs is no longer the place I grew up in, and we all ended up moving away after my father's death.
Love and miss you dad 😥😭😘
Gone, but never forgotten.
@Gary Haber - Thanks for sharing that story. It sounds like you had a good childhood and got to meet interesting people. May your father rest in peace.
@@karlhungus5554
Thank you Karl.
It was truly a good ride.
Gary Haber
I loved Frank's music
I thought Barbara was beautiful looking and obviously very caring.
You had a great childhood, unfortunately with time places change..sometimes not for the best..
Take care and stay safe.
Australia..🙂🙃
@@avengernemesis7990
😥😥😥
Wish time can stand still or repeated sometimes.
Thank you.
Gary, wow thanks for sharing. A quick question IF I may..I am very interested in knowing how did Palm Springs changed over the years? I've always wanted to go to California someday.
Barbara Marx was blessed with beauty, glamour and grace, everything it takes to become the most successful gold digger in history. She admitted to friends prior to the marriage that this time around she was marrying for money. To her credit, after the marriage, she spent Frank's fortune wisely, most notably on the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children in Rancho Mirage, California. Kudos. But the love of his life? I don't buy it.
Not she of his for sure! A convenient arangement for both, where she got the best of him.
I agree. Dear old Ava Gardner was ABSOLUTELY THE ONE! He mooned around for years when she dumped him.
@@valeriebellomo3573 Ava Gardner had many affairs & was a completely toxic woman , she wasn’t all that great at all
Also what’s wrong with her spending money on abused children ? Y’all really love to see the bad in everything & it shows , Frank loved this woman to death for a reason , he had many options & so did she but they chose eachother for a reason
She went to high school in Wichita kansas! Her bestfriend lived across from me & they would visit them. She wasn't a great gal and Sinatra's children hated her!
why? Iv hers many stories? The fact that she didnt call them as he was dying is unforgivable
My cousin Patrick and his partner Paul bought the firestone mansion next door to President Ford and betty, Patrick became good friends of Frank Sinatra and Barbara when they published their cookbook Patrick got me a signed copy and I've prepared several of their dishes
If you read the book by Tina (with help from the other kids) you will be sad that the things that were actually still in the house when he passed were quickly given to Barbara's son Bobby (Marks). Their dad's personal treasures, Gold Records etc etc. The kids' hearts' were broken.
Mrs Barbara Sinatra was a Great Lady. Mr. Sinatra had More Class on His Little Finger than Most People Walking. He was the Greatest Singer Ever. God Bless Both of Them. They did Wonderful Events 👍👍👍👍 for alot of Charities. Your Friend Debby.
Thankyou to whom ever likes my comment on Mrs. Barbara Sinatra and Mr Sintra. They both were Great Great Great 👍👍👍👍 People I Appreciate It. Your Friend Debby.
What did the will and/or trust document direct regarding such distributions?
@@brendapayne6603 She turned a lot of the stuff over to her son Bobby...the child she had with Zeppo MARKS. kEPT fRANKS KIDS AWAY TOWARDS THE END AND VOILA! sUDDENLY THE WILL WAS CHANGED.
@@theresabollman8061 Barbara had a son, Bobby, but not with Zeppo Marx.
Only certain women have that certain something...a charisma about her (not just because she's pretty) that draws people to her & obviously Barbara had it in spades. If u are born with good looks AND that kind of charisma than lucky you!! BUT a kind nature is an added bonus...all u'r good luck won't last if an unkind nature comes to the surface.
I read the book, and the only author's name credited was Barbara's. I give her credit for the patience to endure Frank until he became enfeebled. When interviewed after Frank's death, Barbara was asked if she was aware of any infidelities of Frank's during their marriage. Her reply was that she didn't know and it was none of her business. Shrewdly, she kept a divorce lawyer on retainer, something Frank eventually found out. His own lawyer advised Frank it was cheaper to keep Barbara, so he did. But they lived separate lives for years, pursuing different interests, having different friends. The last days of Frank's life, he was rarely awake, and even then Barbara dined out four nights in a row. Barbara remembered how it was in the beginning- Frank's cruel insults, even striking or throwing objects at her. She deserves credit for waiting it out. She also deserves credit for whatever kama sutra technique she had that could tie down Frank, who had been though hundreds of women, if not thousands.
years ago I've read several articles where they were verbally abusive in public to each other, especially when consuming alcohol.
@@beverlyhintzen8780 Frank could never have loved anyone so bland and simple-minded, and Barbara could never have really loved anyone so mean, so callous. A marriage can last for decades, but if it isn't based on love, it's doomed to unhappiness and the occasional flare-up. I've read the same things you did.
A Krenwinkle For someone he had no use for, he sure gave her gorgeous jewelry.Frank also left her the mother load in his will, leaving very little to his kids by comparison. He especially left Barbara to right to decide who could use his image or voice for money. This had been strictly controlled by his daughter Tina, but he took that away from her. I think he saw that his kids hated Barbara and they seldom spoke to her, even if they were in the same room! Their mother was still alive and as old as they were, they still believed Frank would get back with her. Since Barbara had a son, I’m sure she left everything to him. No wonder none of Sinatra’s kids went to her funeral.
@@patriciabilinkas3911 Frank had a use for her. Use your imagination, and think. Think REAL hard.
A Krenwinkle I’m sure it helped a lot that she let him be himself, especially while wearing his engineer hat and playing with his room full of trains.
Fascinating presentation!! Ms Barbara Sinatra was gorgeous!
Ava was the love of his life. She knew that.
....a bit gold digger , don't you think ?
@@erikcarmel5260 Ava? I don't think so. She was fiercely independent. That was main problem between Frank and Ava. He never could pin her down. Two much alike as she stated years later but they loved each other until the end. Frank was devastated. Read Nancy Jr and Tina's book to get the real story on Barbara. His children couldn't stand her.
@@denisecorbin1693 €@)
whenever something really big happened in his life, or really sad, like when his mother died, he first called Ava and talked to her for hours. That never changed. When they married and said: Until death us do part, the meant it.
@@denisecorbin1693 Not AVA.....Barbara !
Right-brain is creative side. Thanks for a lovely interview!
This was done very nicely.
@Ohm Life
Show some respect to the dead.
Who are we to judge these people that we know nothing about...
Australia.
Okay people, 1. If Frank didn’t like her he was very knowledgeable on how to divorce a wife! The fact that he put in his will that He left her everything, which he didn’t have to. So go blow your noses
Are you any relation to Johnny Gustafson,that great English bass man?
God knows how & when rich people's last wills are made, or extorted. When they are bed-ridden, the first thing peopIe who happen to be living with them do, is isolate them from the outside. It has happened countless times. I wish it doesn't happen to you.
Oh course she was a beautiful lady. Oh course she was. When one gets into the second half of your life the criteria becomes less. Especially when your drunk. I'm sure it worked well enough.
It think they made a lovely pair. They both had the same basic head space.
It was a golden era.
I have this book; it sits on my coffee table because just knowing the content is as it is--makes it a work of art in of itself!
He said that Ava was his love of his life.
GoldenGirl11 I think Ava was the fire and passion love of his life. I think Barbara is his dependable, long lasting love. His strength.
@@glengamble526 Live-in escort, hostess, housekeeper, carer and parasite.
@@louisati1757 Meeoow! Kitty has a sharp pair of claws!
@@glengamble526 It was definitely Ava!✌🏼
You know it!!!!!!!!!!!
No ... Nancy Sinatra Sr. said, “who after Frank.” PLEASE STOP THE LIES.
that's right, I was thinking the same thing- Nancy said that!
That is my memory also...not Barbara
Yes Yvette you are right,
So sad to not be able to take those exquisite things with them when they pass 🥴 his grave plaque is so basic, why did she not give him a nicer resting place😔
More to Barbara then you know young Lady. She was on the arms of others late in Frank's life on earth.
His shit wasn’t working anymore
It's funny that no one talks about how little of a man he was. He stood only 5'7" , he was shorter than Tom Cruise and I kid you not. He bullied people around, some say because he wanted an iron fist to outweigh his lack of height. He had famous rows with Barabra that also don't get mentioned. So if you take that 5'7" frame and then make it very skinny, that's what he looked like growing up and for a while during his career. He would blow away in a stiff breeze. He made Sammy Davis Jr''s frame look normal, as hard as that was. But that voice, ah yea, that singing voice....before it was destroyed by smoke and alcohol.... what a voice.
5’7 is not short sorry, maybe to you but not to anyone with a working brain
I looked it up he was the average height for a man born in 1915…I’m 6’4” the chart said if I was born the same year I would have grown to only 6’1”…
He was 5’9” not that it matters!
Someone should write a book on courtesans, the women who marry for prestige. I remember Averell Harriman (if I have spelled that correctly) and his wife, who was formerly married to a Churchill, and became the American Ambassador to France. There has to be as story there.
William Heyman ANN MARGRET DID THE MOVIE ABOUT PAMELA
William Heyman
There is quite a bit documented on Pamela Churchill-Harriman.
Winston Churchill used her for his benefit during the war years..
I actually read a book about her and her life...
Stay safe
Australia 🙂
Pamela Harriman
His greatest love was Ava Gardner until the day she died. The rest is BS.
Yes you're right
He had a picture of Ava Gardner in his wallet till the day he died and a statue of her which Barbara told him to get rid of. He didn't
Facts. All his children have gone on the record about this.
On the eve of him marrying Barbara he phoned Ava,who was still single and living in London,and tried to get her to come back to him but she refused.Ava was the one love of his life and he never stopped loving her till the day she,then he, died.If there is another " life " after this he will still be loving her there as well.
@- Morales Why all the vulgarity.Can you tell the carer who writes your posts for you that you don't want to use those naughty words again,please!
@- Morales You're nuts!
It's sad that she would hurt Frank's beloved children and grands because of her greed. What did her son Bobby have to do with Frank? Nothing. Yet he holds many of Franks precious and highly valuable collections, especially regarding his career. Barbara had gone through everything before the "love of her life" was cold. She and Bobby took it all. I do not admire that at all.
Who did Frank leave these collections to in his trust(s) or will? Maybe he did not give them to his children.
The "love of her life" were jewels.
@@brendapayne6603 His will didnt name a good portion of the things that were in the house etc. He kept getting "Dottier and Dottier" and it never really got finished. But she was controlling his life. Keeping his own family away many times and taking advantage of the fact that so many things were actually in the home she and FRank Shared. Had he had all of his wits I am sure he would have done a better job of protecting his precious children. They all adored him and he them.
@@louisati1757 I hope they were a great comfort to her...*rolling my eyes.
@@theresabollman8061 *
I meet Frank in the 1980's . I was in the USMC and he was with Bob Hope and the USO Tour. '' Okinawa, Japan '' I got to shake his hand and he asked me where is was from, I told him Down the Bayou South of New Orleans, with my Cajun accent. He told me he loved New Orleans & the food there.
Frank finally found a wife who wouldn't have a career, who would let him act like he was still single, and only wanted the extravagant lifestyle.
@cubomania3 His first wife was actress Ava Gardner. Famous in her own right, one of Hollywood s stars!
@@sunflowerlady1810 : Wrong, Nancy was his first wife, and the mother of his children Nancy & Frank Jr.
No she was not. Ava Gardner was his second wife. Ava had been married twice before.
@@sunflowerlady1810 what are you, 12?
Pepper Sander Don’t forget his other daughter, Tina.
Why would you marry someone who's only after your wealth?
@cubomania3 I agree. I do think she was enamored with Frank, like any fan. Plus, she was already hanging around him being she was married to that Marx guy! SO, she absolutely would want to hook up with another 'celebrity' and she surely had her eye on Frank! And, maybe he was tired of "Ava type" women!! Wild and unpredictable!! AND, no kidding, who doesn't like money?? Damn, I've never been able/lucky to hit a jack-pot! No 'rich guys' for me. They're a different breed , I guess. Sure must be nice, though......sighhhhh.....
@@Melinda8162 Ruby!, I will marry you and all I want of your money is 75 % and you can buy yourself little trinkets with your 25 %.There you are I'm a real catch: don't delay or some rich beauty will snatch me from under your nose !
Sounds like Meghan & Harry
Mr. Sinatra knew who he was marrying, 1st wife Nancy, Ava, Mia, Barbara, am i missing anyone? They were all different types of women, the mother of his children, actress, school girl and vegas dancer. He loved women and Barbara was a beautiful women and didn't need a thing married to Mr. Sinatra.
He was a smart man. He gave to alot of people, but he didn't advertise it.
I think if you knew him as a friend, it could be forever.
Rest in Peace Mr. Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Ava Sinatra, Mia Sinatra, Barbara Sinatra 🌹
Your Forgot Lauren Bacall , Bogart's Main Squeeze , One of Franks Best Friends , Lauren Cried on Franks Shoulders When Bogart Died , So You Know How the Story Goes After Something Like That . . . .
Dolly hated Barbara! Frank and Ava had the same color eyes. Living next door to Sinatra while married to Marx, Barbara cheated as well!
Frank's eyes were blue; Ava's were green. But yes, Frank got into Barbara's pants while neighbors, long before the Marxes separated and divorced.
@Patricia Walton Barbara was one smitten kitten, but my take is that she was in love with Frank's money. Why? Because Frank was coarse, and Barbara fancied herself classy. And Frank, who boasted he never drank water or breathed air, sure looked it.
I don't like frank, bcoz of him... MM died early
Frank's mother dislike Barbara because she was a show girl. She felt Barbara was not good enough for her son Frank Sinatra.
Expensive call girl. No match for Ava!!
Leigh Leigh David Ava was a tramp ! A good looking tramp none the less, she was also a cruel bitch .She went thru all her dosh and finished her tumultuous life almost a pauper !
She died in London - never heard she was a pauper though...…!!!!
I wrote a book about Richard Wattis who starred with Ava in THE DEVILS WIDOW in 1969 or was it 1970?
Never heard her referred to as a Tramp either. There's an Ava Gardner museum somewhere in the US, I used to have regular chats with the curator on e-mail !!
Frank complained that she turned into a drunk. Probably screwed every guy she met.
She hated his kids.
Thank you Wendy Holden for writing this book. It is so well written, and I believe tells the real story of Barbara and Frank's life. I admire Barbara for taking the high road and not discussing his children in a negative way. None of us know the real relationship she had with his children and/or the reason. I couldn't put the book down. Thanks again!!!
The golden age of Hollywood ended 25 years before she met Frank.
A good observation. Whoever wrote that didn't know what- and when- that expression was about.
Actually, they met during his retirement so it was around 10 - 12 years after.
@@richardanderson5448 You should have quit when you were right. Frank and Barbara met briefly in Vegas, according to her- and I believe her- in 1957. They became friends with benefits when then-Mrs. Marx lived on the property adjacent to Frank's Palm Springs compound. It was before Frank's brief retirement starting in 1971. There is no perfect answer to when was the Golden Age of Hollywood. But I'd say when the hippies took over Sunset Boulevard in the mid-60s, that marked the end of that era that began with the great silents- Chaplin, Swanson, Fairbanks, Garbo... and then the great talkies- Garbo again, Gable, Harlow, and on and on.
@@akrenwinkle I have the Golden Age ending at around '60. The '57 meeting I don't know but Frank's books have them as across the fairway neighbors who began seeing each other in the early 70s after retirement so the 10-12 year estimate is good for me.
@@richardanderson5448 Barbara moved in with her new husband Zeppo Marx in Palm Springs in 1959. Neighbor Frank was already there since the late 40s. So if you want to believe Frank and Barbara waited until the early 70s to start having sex, that's fine. I've talked myself into worse things, if I thought about it.
She was an absolute beauty. She carried a grace that doesn't come around often.
Даже все ее деньги не позволили ей жить до 200 лет!
Frank cared for Marilyn Monroe very much and thought of marrying her in 1960/1961, but Marilyn was too much of a wreck. Sinatra's valet said Marilyn was unkempt and a walking pharmacy with a LARGE bag full of pills. I have always felt that Barbara Marx resembled Marilyn, and that was why Sinatra was interested in Barbara and married her. Had Marilyn been able to get herself under control, there was a good chance of her and Sinatra marrying. Marilyn wouldn't have done it for money, though. And Marilyn was FABULOUS company when she was not out of it. So I actually think Barbara was his Marilyn substitute, and I think Marilyn would have looked as good, or better, than Barbara had she taken care of herself. (Marilyn was only nine months older than Barbara Marx Sinatra.) P.S.: As with Ava, Frank was apparently inconsolable when he heard of Marilyn's death.
Tony Curtis, not very gallant, dated Marilyn in the late 40s, long before "Some Like it Hot," and spilled the beans: she wasn't very bright. Frank snarled that Barbara was "the dumbest broad I ever met." I think he may have had a similar opinion of Monroe, and neither was FABULOUS company for him, unless in the sack.
@@akrenwinkle I said Marilyn was fabulous company when she wasn't "out of it". That has actually been the general consensus of people who knew her and were with her. When she was in good form, Marilyn was quite dynamic. As for Frank, I am not sure how much he loved anyone. He was a bit of a psychopath with people.
@@Missditabomb I am an English-speaking person; I know what you meant. Now, what I meant... I hate to use the S-word, but yes, Marilyn was somewhat stupid and ill-informed. To show she was intellectual, she married one and schlepped books around when people could see it. But when told Khrushchev wanted to meet her, it had to be explained to her who he was. But yeah, I agree, Frank was nuts.
@@akrenwinkle Marilyn was not book-smart. She didn't finish high school, but she wanted to learn and was curious about everything. Curiosity, to the degree that Marilyn possessed it, is a good indicator of innate intelligence.
@@Missditabomb I have read no evidence of Marilyn being curious about anything aside from make-up. I have no idea what she could discuss for more than four minutes with Sinatra or the Kennedy brothers. Only a stupid person could wind up being a punching bag for Joe DiMaggio and being taken in by Arthur Miller and the Strasbergs. I find it improbable Marilyn read any of the books about Lincoln she toted around. There's no question in my mind she lacked intelligence. Okay, I'll say it. Stupid. That said, she was brilliant playing comedy roles that didn't stray too far from herself.
Well done... Did not realize how beautiful she was... Must have been nice being Frank Sinatra, I mean all of his women, including Ava Gardner - Gorgeous!
Barbara was his prettiest wife.
A bunch of alley cats...morally crippled.
Great tribute to the Gold digger ,but this professional artist would like to remind you that creativity is right brain activity not left brain! The left brain represents logic, put them together and you have creative logic or logical creativity however one wants to look at it, a balanced brain! As for the Sinatras, " No family is on the inside what it appears to be on the outside"...TRUTH! Thanks for sharing~
Actually the whole idea that logic and creativity are each located in one half of the brain has always been disproved pop-culture bullshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function
Also I am sorry to have to inform you that you being a professional artist gives you no authority whatsoever when you talk about anything related to neurosciences (weird, right?).
Love, love, love his music. Thanks for the insight into Barbara. Sounds like a remarkable woman.
Very interesting story! A revelation to me!
Gorgeous woman!!
She was a beautiful woman. I'm glad they had each other.
I love Frank. As long as he was really Happy, I'm good. I did hear this women kept his children away from his deathbed. That's so awful. He and they the children deserved to be together.
She was a beautiful woman with a lovely smile.
franks smile was better
What a bunch of creepy negative commenters.
I don't think Frank appreciated ANY of his wives
Frank Cheat on all his wife's and I believe the only wife that respect hem was his first wife the mother of his kids all the other ones I believe they had good times with another man that's for sure that's the way they live you cheat on me and I cheat on you
So she's the original groupie!
i really dont like the voice of this reporter/journalist woman...so pretentious....yikes!
She he disowned his love child deanna
So much hate here. They were happy together
No hate, just interesting that you would state they were happy together and you didn't know them. Maybe let's stick with facts and that means you don't know if they were happy and I don't know if they were.
@@tigermoon44 goes both ways, same for the people who hate on them , 100% of them didn't know them personally and never will, both dead, no need for all the hate .
s.Guistino
I agree...the hate and the envy..
Frank Sinatra was a great singer.
Barbara was stunningly beautiful.
Australia...stay healthy and safe..😘😘
@@tigermoon44 it is obvious , dummy.
Who after Frank? Someone with even more money?
6M,24 OJO DE VIDRIO DE SAMMY HA HA
Thanks, I'm glad to know about this book.
Booze and Broads!....
Excellent piece
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Nobody came close to Ava Gardner, one of his wives prior.😍
Where there is sunshine there’s always Barbara
This was about Barbara Sinatra...not the number wives Frank Sinatra had during his life.
Worst fucking song he ever sung
D that’s your opinion but to watch him sing it live to Barbara as I did makes it somewhat special
What about Ava Gardner?
Frank once described her as " The dumbest broad I ever met" ALL of Frank's children hated her and he was none too keen on her either !
I don't believe the "once" part.
Jamie Morris Those three kids, adults really, wanted Frank to remarry their mother, Nancy Sr. Though they were friends, a remarriage was not in the cards as far as Frank was concerned. I read that Barbara could be in the same room and Frank’s kids froze Barbara out. It made him crazy, so I think when he made his Will, he made sure that anyone who contested it got nothing. He left Barbara the mother load, and the kids a pittance by comparison.
@@akrenwinkle I'm sure he had a few other choice descriptive words for her too !
Jamie Morris Could you imagine if your statement was reality based. Ugh!
Frank needed and wanted companionship more than anything else in his later days. I often wonder why he didn't remarry Nancy, as he constantly went over there for dinner and discussed things often with her on the phone, including asking her opinion on many things he did. Barbara was unkind to his children and there was no reason for that, but she was, and the keepsakes of Franks that SHOULD have gone to his children, she gave to her son, whom it is said she wasn't even very close to and Frank certainly wasn't. No one ever knows all that goes on between people, but Barbara did help him not to be alone in his last years. He kind of accepted her for what she was, and probably felt it was better than to be alone. I read the book, it's what she called herself, no one else called her "Lady blue eyes." She was alleged to be a bit of a gold-digger, by quite a few people. Frank probably knew that and didn't care.
She was a classic beauty. Such a wonderful smile. Gorgeous teeth.
She was pretty, in a rather artificial way, and she had the money to make herself look the best, and Frank was ALWAYS a generous man. One never knows what is real and what isn't these days! She did have a nice smile, but whether or not those were her natural teeth is open to conjecture!
@@MJLeger-yj1ww that Is Hollywood back then & it still is now , wish people would let others live happily regardless if they got work done, which 90% of celebrity do and theirs nothing wrong with that
@@Jessknowsbestt Dreamer: You are entirely wrong, because the MOTIVE is a factor and often that is wrong. You can change a body but that body WILL age and eventually die. Too much emphasis is placed today, on beauty, perfect features, skin, breasts buttocks, hair, eyes, nails, and anything else you think isn't perfect, the plastic surgeons can improve on it (for a ton of money, of course)! What those people do not realize is that as we age, so does every part of our body and some of those procedures fail in time, and the person may be left looking far worse than they would have if they'd aged naturally. False doesn't wear well!
It is a wonderful thing when we can fix deformities (like a cleft palate in a baby) or provide prosthetics for missing limbs, or unappealing congenital problems, fix bad burn scars or injury scars, but when beauty is the only reason, in the end, it makes no difference, as we all die rather ugly!
Какая она красотка!
Нееет, Аву Гарднер переплюнуть невозможно
Did she have a problem accepting Frank's children
No sé inglés .. subtitulado estaría bueno .... 🤔🤔👎👎👎👎
RIGHT - ahem.
Sinatra hated women
That isn't true at all! However, his mother made him wary of women! But renowned and wealthy people must be; there are so many gold-diggers in the world!
You must be a woke liberal youngster. Young people today are wrongly taught if a man loves to date...have many girlfriends, etc. he is disrespecting them. As long as he is not a married man, he can date 20 gals at one time. It's no one's affair. BTW, that idea of yours is also a common theme with Feminists!!
@@MJLeger-yj1ww I knew him.
@@valeriebellomo3573 I knew him
They both were pretending to be opposite gender?
How do these entertainers become artists and designers?.
wonderful
He was an amazing singer. I am impressed with his paintings!.. but it is hard to forgive him for how he treated and allowed the rat pack to treat Marilyn. 💔 I've read biographies of both Frank and Marilyn and it just breaks my heart
I love Sinatra hands down but the truth be told Sinatra was marilyn handler ..so u can put it together...
Please, Barbara isn’t an Angel.
FRANK UNICO IL RESTO VA BENE
What does "she was very much her own person" mean? I've no desire to read her life story what so ever...
Too bad, because it's a good book with a lot of fascinating stories. She knew everybody in show business.
Nobody is making you buy that book.
However, i do notice that you watched the video clip...
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The meaning "she was very much her own person"
She had a mind of her own and she did what she wanted to do..she was a independently thinking woman.
Not taking sides i think Frank Sinatra could have been a difficult man to live with.
Those days times were different...i hope that they both had a good life together.
I would have done anything to get out of a small town and make a better life for myself...
Julie you sound very brash...it is only a comment...
Be kind to each other and stay safe.
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Thanks Great Video...
What's wrong with you people she was beautiful inside and out kim
Where did Frank get all that money?
She insisted that Frank get an ANNULMENT from Nancy so they could have a Catholic wedding. Do you wonder why his children hated her? He was NOT devoted to his mother. He hated her. That was the problem with him and women. I think Barbara saw a rich elderly man in Frank that was probably on the borderline of dementia. His singing after he met her had gone downhill and then got worse and worse. Yes, she did some good work with abused children but I can not praise her in anyway. Maybe a lot of that was out of guilt if she had any.
Thank you for this video. I found it very interesting.
Barbara was stunningly beautiful..
I myself have always adored Frank Sinatra as a singer.
Stay healthy and stay safe
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Ronan ?
J.D. Truths, yes, Ronan. Frank's lovely sweet son who had never been acknowledged. Ronan Farrow is a fine, caring young man.
@@catherinerintamaki8617 I Absolutely Agree With You : ) Let's just hope Ronan will sing just once for us, I am so curious : ) God bless J... ( Toronto )
Nice! Shared ;->
I read her book from the library, as I did not want to spend any money. It was interesting that she mentioned Frank’s children maybe 3 times. Barbara was beautiful on the outside, but like so many celebrities, how about the most important;; the inside?
@Mary Donovan: I read that book, too, and it said pretty well NOTHING. It was pretty shallow, but then again, so was she. Money and appearances were all that mattered to her.
The background music is distracting!
Ancient history who gives a s*** now.
Aren't you a Nice Gentlemen..Your Comment wasn't nice or needed.
Yeah righf
They were a happy and romantic couple.
Beautiful woman. So unlike the others. I thought she was the greatest Frank had as a wife. Absolutely the greatest.
Like Frank, it seems Barbara Sinatra was a complicated personality. The reports of who she really was are all over the board. There's the extraordinary goodness of her children's center right next to what appears to be petty & territorial feuding with Frank's kids aimed at hurting them. And, of course, the gold digging charge.
Where is the real truth to be found in all this? It's probably all true.
Anyone who writes a biography about a famous person IS going to embellish on the facts so that it will sell. The writer's opinion is not always the truth, much of it is hearsay and from research that isn't always correct or true. (Barbara was a gold-digger, and had ulterior motives when she was asked about writing this book, she called herself "Lady Blue Eyes" no one else did!). So when books happen, often people elaborate far beyond what is true, and that is also the case with her book. It's easy to say things about a person that are not true when that person is not alive to deny or refute any of the contents! But then, people often wrote untruths about Frank Sinatra because it sold! He probably wouldn't have lived to age 82 if he had done everything that people attribute to him, bad and good! Only he knew and he tended to NOT tell (he HATED gossip)! (He died over 20 years ago, it's time to put evil-mongering about him to rest! Most of it is merely hearsay anyway, suppositions are not truth!)
Merely living to 82 is no endorsement of Frank's lifestyle. For the last years of his life, he often was a prisoner at home wearing pajamas, sometimes not knowing who was visiting him, or, for that matter, who he was. It is possible, depending upon who the subject is and how much information is available, to write an ethical, unbiased biography without embellishment.
Thank You for sharing! I, was so devastated to learn that he denounced his biological daughter; DNA doesn’t lie and he never denied the legitimacy. His whole family never recognized her! She didn’t want money or any major demands, She simply wanted to know her Father! Now knowing how much charity work was done by Barbara Sinatra and abused Children, i’m a bit baffled why not start with Your own!!! Very sad; very sad
Pues parecía cazafortunas 🤣😂
wow, sounds very interesting. Will try to find the book
Thanks so
The items went for way too much. I was bidding on on something that should have went for 500 dollars. I got up to 2,000 and still lost.
So that's the criteria for being Remarkable? Being a show girl and married to a singer? Ok. I had it all wrong all along then.