Want to know the best Frank Sinatra movies? How about the worst Frank Sinatra movies? Curious about Frank Sinatra’s box office grosses or which Frank Sinatra movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Frank Sinatra movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Talk about procrastinating! I originally got a request to do a Frank Sinatra movie page almost three years ago by Earle1670 from HubPages. Frank was bumped many times….but finally “The Chairman of the Board” has his very own UltimateMovieRankings page.
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was an American actor, director and of course singer. He won a Best Supporting Oscar® for his performance in From Here To Eternity. On this page we will be only looking at Sinatra’s movie career. Despite being in the shadows of his singing career…he managed to put together a pretty successful movie career. Including 20 movies that crossed the magical $100 million mark when looking at adjusted domestic box office dollars.
His IMDb page shows 65 acting credits from 1941-1987. This page will rank 46 Frank Sinatra movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, some of his movies made outside of the Hollywood system and his straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Frank Sinatra Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Frank Sinatra Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by yearly box office rank
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Frank Sinatra movie received.
- Sort Frank Sinatra movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Frank Sinatra Table
- Twenty-eight Frank Sinatra movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 60.86% of his movies listed. From Here to Eternity (1953) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Frank Sinatra movie grosses $132.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 26 Frank Sinatra movies are rated as good movies…or 56.52% of his movies. Manchurian Candidate (1962) is his highest rated movie while The Pride and the Passion (1957) is his lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Frank Sinatra movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 39.13% of his movies.
- Four Frank Sinatra movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 8.69% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 32 Frank Sinatra movies scored higher that average….or 69.56% of his movies. From Here to Eternity (1953) got the the highest UMR Score while First Deadly Sin (1980) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Frank Sinatra
1. Francis Albert Sinatra was born and raised in born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
2. Frank Sinatra’s voice carried him into movies. In the 1930s and 1940s Sinatra went from a saloon singer, to a band singer, to working with musical greats Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. As he gained more notoriety in the music world he started landing cameo singing roles in movies By the mid 1940s, he was starring in blockbuster movies.
3. Frank Sinatra had many nicknames…here are the most famous: The Voice, Chairman of the Board, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Swoonatra, The Sultan of Swoon and La Voz. Frank Sinatra has an incredible 321 (and counting) soundtrack credits on IMDb and has sold over 150 million records (and counting) in the world.
4. Frank Sinatra was married four times. His first marriage was to Nancy Barbato from 1939-1951…they had 3 children (singer actress Nancy Sinatra, singer Frank Jr. and Christina Sinatra) together. His second marriage was to actress Ava Gardner 1951-1957. His third marriage was to actress Mia Farrow 1966-1968. His final marriage was to writer Barbara Marx 1976-1998 (his death).
5. After Frank Sinatra’s movies Meet Danny Wilson (1951) and Double Dynamite (1951) bombed at the box office he got the dreaded label “box office poison”. Around this time From Here To Eternity was being cast. Sinatra really wanted to play the Angela Maggio role. The producer of the movie was strongly against using Sinatra and cast Eli Wallach in the role. However when filming started Sinatra had the role. There are many theories on how Sinatra got the role….my favorite is the Hollywood legend that parts of The Godfather are based on Frank Sinatra…..the “offer he can’t refuse” part.
6. Frank Sinatra turned down or was seriously considered for the following roles: On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando part), North by Northwest (Cary Grant part), Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood part), Death Wish (Charles Bronson part), The Odd Couple (Walter Matthau part), The Graduate (Mr. Robinson), The Music Man (Robert Preston part), and Flaming Star (Elvis Presley). A part Sinatra really wanted to play but did not get was the Marlon Brando role in The Godfather.
7. Frank Sinatra did many cameo roles in his career. Blink and you might have missed him in Cannonball Run 2, The Oscar, The Road To Hong Kong, The List of Adrian Messenger, Around the World in Eighty Days, Meet Me In Las Vegas and Cast A Giant Shadow.
8. In 1963 his son was kidnapped. The kidnappers told Frank Sr. to call them from pay phones. During one call he ran out of coins, and briefly feared that it had cost him his son (the kidnappers gave him another chance). He paid the $250,000 ransom, Frank Jr. was returned, and the kidnappers were eventually caught. However, as a result of the payphone scare, Sinatra swore never to be caught without dimes again, and carried a roll of dimes with him constantly until his death.
9. Frank Sinatra was listed in Quigley Publications’ Top Ten Box Office Stars in 1956 (10th), 1957 (5th), 1958 (10th), 1959 (7th),1960 (8th), and 1962 (8th). 19 of his movies grossed over $100 million when looking at adjusted for inflation box office numbers. Check out Frank Sinatra’s movie career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
10. Three more quick facts: Frank Sinatra’s last starring role, The First Deadly Sin, was Bruce Willis‘ first ever movie appearance. When Bela Lugosi died broke….Frank Sinatra paid for his funeral. Frank Sinatra’s epitaph on his tombstone says “The Best Is Yet To Come”.
Check out Frank Sinatra‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Rest in peace Frank Sinatra Jr.
I agree Flora….RIP Frank Jr.
Hi, Bruce.
I just wanted to update my total. Although I could not see Miracle of the Bells which is now my highest rated film I am missing, TCM helped me raise my Sinatra total to 39 movies with his star of the month tribute. I have seen the movies they are airing tonight.
Cheers,
Flora
Very cool. My last tally count was 10…but I have been watching some Frank movies since then. I actually finally saw Guys and Dolls a few days ago. My tally is now at 17….still far away but getting closer to your tally count. Thanks for the update.
His 100th birthday was this past Saturday. He has been a big part of my December. TCM is helping me complete most of his films. However, there are some movies which TCM does not own the rights to air in Canada. Miracle of the Bells is one of them. So I do not know when or if I will get to see that one.
Flora
Hey Flora….thanks for the updates on Frank….I saw a few minutes of a television special that celebrated his 100th birthday. The man was a true legend. Since writing this page I have been watching more of his movies….and have really liked some of the ones that I have tracked down. I hope you will be able to track down Miracle of the Bells in the near future. Thanks for stopping by.
Hi, Bruce.
I look forward to Lee Marvin’s page. I am a fan of him too.
Frank Sinatra is my favourite male singer of all time. I have a cd of his in my stereo at all times and periodically change the title.
Regarding his cameos, I have seen three of them.
The most recent film I’ve seen of Sinatra’s for the first time is Come Blow Your Horn. Although I enjoyed his scenes I found myself not enjoying when he wasn’t on screen.
In terms of these rankings and what I’ve seen, I have seen all top 5, all top 10, all top 15, and all top 20. The highest film ranked I’ve yet to see is no.21.
Onward, I’ve seen 27 of his top 30 and 32 of them overall.
The lowest ranking film I have seen is No. 41: Lady In Cement
A film I thought was important to see but I have only been able to watch once due to its subject matter is The Man With The Golden Arm.
Since I just wrote about Gene Kelly, I feel I should say my preference for their films are in this order:
On The Town
Anchor’s Aweigh
Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
My five favourite musicals of Sinatra are
High Society
On The Town
Guys and Dolls
Anchors Aweigh
Can-Can
My favourite non-musicals are:
The Manchurian Candidate
Some Came Running
Ocean’s Eleven
A Hole in the Head
The Tender Trap
From Here to Eternity
Cheers
Flora Breen Robison
Hey Flora…thanks for checking out my Frank Sinatra page. This was one of my last pages written on my middle website…..google never liked it when it was on CogersonMovieScore.com….but luckily Google likes it on UltimateMovieRankings.com…..it is always good when Google likes you…..lol.
Wow your 32 Sinatra movies watched once again beats me and Steve’s total of 30….I feel I am not keeping up my end …as I have only seen 10 Sinatra movies to Steve’s 20. I almost watched Guys and Dolls the other day…but the disk I got from the library was scratched up so bad that it would not work….of the 5 favorite Frank musicals….I have actually seen the other 4….only Guys and Dolls escapes me. As for the non-musical Frank favorites…I have seen 3 of the 6….with Some Came Running very high on my list of movies to watch.
Thanks for the visit and the thoughts…..my Lee Marvin page is hot off the presses as I finished my Lee Marvin page tonight….hope your weekend is going well.
WOW! All I can say is this man new how to make some money! I couldn’t keep counting all those 100 million dollar films!!! (Adjusted dollars) Still pretty cool, thanks for finally doing this page, I have been waiting an eternity!
Hey BryRog57….yep he was a money making machine at the box offices and record stores….I think the saying…”Better late than never really applies to this page”…thanks for stopping by