Frank Sinatra’s first movie was Higher and Higher. Produced in 1943 and directed by Tim Whelan, the musical was slightly based on the Broadway musical by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. Nevertheless, if you knew the Broadway musical and saw the movie, you would not see any similarities. The only thread of the Broadway production is the one song “Disgustingly Rich”.
Sinatra, of course, is amazingly good, launching his 40-film career, written in at the… Read the rest
