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George Emmanuel Jacobs (April 19, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American memoirist and valet. Jacobs was the valet of the Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar in the 1950s, before being poached from Lazar by the singer and actor Frank Sinatra . [ 1 ]
Sinatra biographers George Jacobs and William Stadiem claimed Crosby kept his distance from Sinatra during the production and remained strictly professional when Sinatra desired companionship, and that it "killed" Sinatra to think that Crosby considered himself a higher class singer. However, this is rejected by TCM, which states that "in spite ...
According to George Jacobs, Sinatra's former valet, the 1962 tour was undertaken partly as an attempt to rehabilitate Sinatra's image into "the singing philanthropist" in the aftermath of his public fallout with John F. Kennedy and his Mafia ties becoming public knowledge. [14]
In his account of being Frank Sinatra's valet, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra (2003), George Jacobs writes that Harvey often made passes at him while visiting Sinatra. According to Jacobs, Sinatra was aware of Harvey's sexuality.
The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American independent [3] drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren.Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin, it recounts the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world.
As his fame climbed, George Michael pushed the world away, but got a letter of encouragement from a very unlikely source – legendary singer Frank Sinatra.
Jacobs, George; Stadiem, William (2004). Mr. S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-330-41229-2. Kelley, Kitty (1986). His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra. Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-553-38618-9. Leigh, Spencer (25 September 2015). Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life. McNidder and Grace ...
George Jacobs, Jr., accused of witchcraft in Salem witch trials, but fled; George Jacobs (basketball), American basketball coach; George Jacobs (valet) (1927–2013), memoirist and valet of Frank Sinatra; George Jacobs (bridge player), American bridge player; George Jacobs (educator) (born 1952), American educator and vegan activist