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Top 10 Iconic Male Movie Stars Picks for the most iconic actors of all time in our continuing Top 10 series
FRANK SINATRA Francis Albert Sinatra, “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” may be New Jersey’s most famous son. Born in Hoboken, Sinatra rose to fame crooning tunes for band leaders like Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He eventually branched out to movies, playing roles in musicals like On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Can Can, and Pal Joey. But he proved himself a true actor in dramas like The Manchurian Candidate, Suddenly, and From Here to Eternity (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor). Often called “Chairman of the Board,” Sinatra headed up the Rat Pack, which included cronies Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. During his career, he was nominated for numerous awards and presented with many including Golden Globes, Grammys, an Emmy, a Peabody, the Kennedy Center Honors Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Presidential Medal Of Honor, and the Congressional Gold Medal — Congress’ highest civilian award. Married four times (including to actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow), he had three children, all of whom work in the entertainment industry. Sinatra is considered by many to be the greatest performer of popular music and the most popular entertainer of the 20th century. 30
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CLARK GABLE
After securing Hollywood immortality playing Rhett Butler opposite Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, Clark Gable was hailed “The King of Hollywood.” During his “reign,” he starred in movies with the most famous leading ladies of his time like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Myrna Loy, Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner. His 1934 screwball comedy, It Happened One Night, is one of only three movies to date to sweep all top five Academy Awards (Movie; Screenplay; Director: Frank Capra; Actor: Gable; Actress: Claudette Colbert). Gable was married five times, most notably to actress Carole Lombard, who was killed in a plane crash in 1942 while traveling home from a war bond-selling tour (dubiously making her the first war-related American female casualty of World War II). His last film, The Misfits, was also the last complete film for his co-star, Marilyn Monroe. His fifth wife bore his only child, a son, who was born four months after his death in 1960.