Frank Sinatra

AKA:

Chairman of the Board

Birth Name:

Francis Albert Sinatra

Birth Date:

December 12, 1915

Birth Place:

Hoboken, New Jersey

Death Date:

May 14, 1998

Place of Death:

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Heart attack

Cemetery Name:

Desert Memorial Park

Claim to Fame:

Music

Associates:

Frank "The Voice" Sinatra was an American singer, producer and motion-picture actor who, through a long career and a very public personal life, became one of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry. Often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music, Sinatra is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

Fun Fact

In the 1950s an informal social club called the Holmby Hills Rat Pack (named by Lauren Bacall when the boys came in from drinking one night and she commented that they all looked like “a pack of drowned rats”) formed around Humphrey Bogart and his friends. With original members Bogart, Bacall, Sinatra, Judy Garland, agent Swifty Lazar and songwriter Sammy Cahn, Sinatra took over the group when Bogart’s health began to decline. Joining Frank were Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford with Sinatra dubbed the “Chairman of the Board” whenever the social club was spotted at a local hotspot. The group really gained traction after Vincente Minnelli directed Sinatra and Martin in their first movie together, Some Came Running. Shortly after Frank produced Dean’s next album and from their they shared the stage at the Sands in Las Vegas, trading ad libs that became the beginnings of early sixties Rat Pack cool. With the addition of Sammy, Joey and Peter the group’s hard-swinging, swell broads and hazy booze-filled reputation was sealed with the film Ocean’s Eleven. And that’s how it started ….

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Desert Memorial Park

31-705 Da Vall Drive

Cathedral City, California, 92262

USA

North America

Map:

Map of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

Grave Location:

Plot B-8, Space 151

Grave Location Description

As you drive through the gates proceed straight ahead exactly 22 rows and park. Walk to your right 4 spaces and you’ll be within 6 feet of the Chairman of the Board. He is buried here with his parents and good friend and confidant Jilly Rizzo.