File #2 It Happened in Brooklyn/The Nose Knows

In It Happened in Brooklyn, Frank Sinatra takes Gene Kelly’s place as alpha-male for the majority of the film thus a shy British noblemen fills his former role without threatening Sinatra’s dominant masculinity. What’s funny is that Sinatra begins as somewhat of a carbon copy of his character in Anchors Aweigh up until he returns to Brooklyn where he “magically’’ is transformed into a confident masculine man with an almost ever present smile. Sinatra’s musical prose and ability to land women are on full display in It Happened in Brooklyn and because his character, conveniently, works at a record store Sinatra is able to easily mirror his recording persona, often breaking out in song and entertaining the customers. Still the one who steals the show for me has got to be Jimmy “Schnozzola” Durante. The man’s a comic genius. He reminds me of The Penguin from the Batman TV show but with Danny DeVito’s voice, plus this monkey….

In It Happened in Brooklyn we begin to see a connection between the Sinatra on screen and the presumed Sinatra off screen as a recording artist, that being said we see many situations in which it is easy to see why girls found him attractive but also keep him down to earth as a “Brooklyn boy” who despite this recording artist persona remains a masculine figure especially compared to his co-star, the lovably square Peter Lawford.

From here it seems Sinatra is coming in to his own film-wise and a merge of similarities between his movie characters and recording artist characters is evident.

I also found this old cartoon called "Little 'Tinker" it's about a skunk who wants to find love but, let's face it he stinks so he decides to act like Frank Sinatra and wouldn't you know it his act works! enjoy
(Sinatra bit starts at 3:00) Little 'Tinker

Over and out, Ha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaa!