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In honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday, which is tomorrow, this week on «Film Friday» I bring you one of his most iconic films and one of my personal favorites. Original release poster Directed by George Sidney, Pal Joey (1957) tells the story of Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra), a cynical singer who is thrown out of town for romancing the mayor's underage daughter and ends up in San Francisco emceeing at a second-rate nightclub, where he meets a naïve young chorus girl named Linda English (Kim Novak). One night, Joey and the club band are invited to perform at a society fund-raiser hosted by Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth), a wealthy widow whom the crooner immediately recognizes from her old days as a stripper. Later on, Joey walks Linda to her rooming house and notices a room for rent sign in the window. After ascertaining from the sleepy landlady, Mrs. Casey (Elizabeth Patterson), that there is a vacant room adjoining Linda's, the womanizing Joey eagerly rents it. ...

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford relaxing on the set of Charles Vidor's Gilda (1946)

JEAN ARTHUR (October 17, 1900 — June 19, 1991) It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen. RITA HAY WORTH (Octo ber 17, 1918 — May 14, 1987) I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance. MONT GOMERY CLIFT (October 17, 1920 — July 23, 1966) If I'm not interested in the movie, the audience is not going to be. How can you interest the audience if you're not interested yourself? Watch Laura 's wonderful tribute to Montgomery Clift :

In honor of Deborah Kerr's 94th birthday, wh ich was on Wednesday, this week on "Film Friday" I though I'd to tell you a little bit about one of my personal favorite films of hers. Theatrical release poster Directed by Delbert Mann, Separate Tables (1958) revolves around a group of lonely residents of a small British seaside hotel, including the plain and overly protected Sybil Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother Maude (Gladys Cooper), who disapproves of her daughter's friendship with the pompous Major David Angus Pollock (David Niven). Mrs. Railton-Bell is determined to have the major expelled from the hotel, after finding an article revealing his arrest for indecent behavior to several women at the local theater and that his military stories and ranking are fraudulent. Meanwhile, the glamorous Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth) arrives at the hotel looking for John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), a drunken American writer to whom she used to be...