March 24, 1954, as daughter Nancy remembers it.
At the long-awaited Academy Awards show, Dad's dream finally came true: With Frankie and me in the audience, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was the greatest moment of his professional life, and one of the most dramatic comeback stories in entertainment history. But almost as precious to him was the gift presented to him before the ceremony by Mom, Frankie, Tina and me-a gold medallion with a miniature Oscar in bas relief on one side, inscribed: DAD, ALL OUR LOVE FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, and on the other side a bust of St. Genesius, the patron saint of actors. When his name was announced, he kissed me on the cheek, kissed Frankie on the cheek and sprinted to the stage.
As it happened. (Poor sound quality)
Sinatra received a Best Actor nomination for his performance in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). The award was given to one of Sinatra's From Here to Eternity co-stars, Ernest Borgnine, for his casting-against-type role in Marty.
In 1970, Sinatra received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
My siblings and I seem rather nonchalant about the whole thing.
Other Frank Sinatra 100 posts:
"Our Love". (2/14/2015)
"I'll Never Smile Again". (2/15/2015)
"Fools Rush In". (2/16/2015)
"Dolores". (2/17/2015)
"Oh Look At Me Now". (2/18/2015)
"This Love of Mine". (2/20/2015)
"There Are Such Things." (2/24/2015)
"Night and Day". (2/26/2015)
"The Night We Called It a Day". (2/27/2015)
Paramount Theater, December 30, 1942. (3/2/2015)
Reveille with Beverly. (3/4/2015)
"You'll Never Know". (3/7/2015)
Higher and Higher. (3/8/2015)
"People Will Say We're in Love". (3/10/2015)
The Shining Future. (3/17/2015)
"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night". (3/19/2015)
Step Lively. (3/20/2015) .
"Saturday Night (is the Loneliest Night of the Week)". (3/21/2015)
"You'll Never Walk Alone". (3/23/2015)
"Oh What It Seemed to Be". (3/24/2015)
Anchors Aweigh. (3/26/2015)
"Day by Day". 3/27/2015)
Till the Clouds Roll By. (3/29/2015)
"Always". (3/30/2015)
It Happened in Brooklyn. (3/31/2015)
"I've Got a Crush on You". (4/3/2015)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". (4/5/2015)
"It Only Happens When I Dance With You". (4/7/2015)
The Miracle of the Bells. (4/9/2015)
The birth of Tina. (4/11/2015)
The Kissing Bandit. (4/16/2015)
"Some Enchanted Evening." (4/19/2015)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game. (4/22/2015)
"The Huckle Buck." (4/24/2015)
On the Town. (4/28/2015)
A blowup in Houston. (4/30/2015)
1st television appearance. (5/3/2015)
"The Frank Sinatra Show". (5/5/2015)
"I'm a Fool to Want You". (5/7/2015)
"Mama Will Bark". (5/10/2015)
Double Dynamite. (5/13/2015)
Frank and Ava get married. (5/15/2015)
Meet Danny Wilson. (5/19/2015)
"I Could Write a Book". (5/24/2015)
His Final Recording for Columbia Records, "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (5/28/2015)
A new musical era with Capital Records. (6/2/2015)
Filming begins on From Here to Eternity. (6/15/2015)
"I've Got the World on a String". (6/20/2015)
"Young at Heart". (6/21/2015)
Songs for Young Lovers. (6/22/2015)
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