Ol’ Blue Eyes on the silver screen

8:50am Thursday 26th June 2008

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Most people associate the late Frank Sinatra, right, with the Great American songbook – Gershwin, Porter, Mercer, Cahn – and the musical arrangements of Nelson Riddle.

But the singer also enjoyed a movie career as an Oscar-winning actor, starring in notable films such as From Here to Eternity, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate and Some Came Running.

Tonight at the National Media Museum, Adrian Wootton, chief executive of London Film and former director of Bradford Film Theatre, gives an illustrated talk on the subject of Sinatra’s film career, followed by a screening of Some Came Running in the Cubby Broccoli cinema.

In this film, Sinatra plays troubled GI Dave Hirsch, a would-be writer who seeks inspiration and self-revelation in the gambling dives of small town America, accompanied by a prostitute and a hard-boozing gambler played by Dean Martin.

• Tickets for the talk and the film cost £10 with £7.50 concessions. The box office number is 0870 7010200.