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Frank Sinatra

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Francis Albert Sinatra (1915 – 1998) was an American singer and film actor. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Private Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity. He was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra also garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate. He also starred in such musicals as High Society,

James Dean

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James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. Dean's premature death in a car crash in 1955 cemented his legendary status. He became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (East of Eden (1955), and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations after also receiving a Best actor nomination for Giant (1956). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star on their AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list. (Wikipedia)   East of Eden (195