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The name "Rat Pack" was first used to call a group of friends in New York City, [5] [6] and several explanations have been offered for the name. According to one version, Lauren Bacall saw her husband Humphrey Bogart and his friends returning from a night in Las Vegas and said, "You look like a goddamn rat pack."
Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (né Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor. [1] [2]He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.
The film stars an ensemble cast and five members of the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. [3] Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino robberies, the film also stars Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Patrice Wymore, Akim Tamiroff, and Henry Silva.
“[The ‘Brat Pack’] is to the 1980s what the Rat Pack was to the 1960s,” claimed the article, and the members were quickly taking over the movie industry.
Sinatra, offended, hung up on Bishop and cut him out of the Rat Pack. [17] Bishop was the only member of the Rat Pack to work with members of a younger group of actors dubbed the Brat Pack, appearing (as a ghost) in the film Betsy's Wedding (1990) with Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. [18]
Remember the members that made up the Brat Pack in the 80s? Actors like Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and more are all still here. See current photos.
Opened in 1936 by a mobster member of the Purple Gang, Sinatra once called this Rat Pack hangout of the late '50s his "home away from home," where he favored staying in the two-story Colony Palms ...
The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. The term "Brat Pack", a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of highly successful film stars in their early twenties. [1]