So called “visiting members” included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney and Cesar Romero, however.Īccording to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were Sinatra (pack master), Garland (first vice-president), Bacall (den mother), Sid Luft (cage master), Bogart (rat in charge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. The name may also refer to the belief that an established pack of rats will belligerently reject an outsider who tries to join them (“Never rat on a rat”). “Rat Pack” may also be a shortened version of “Holmby Hills Rat Pack,” a reference to the home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall which served as a regular hangout. According to one version, the group’s original “Den Mother,” Lauren Bacall, after seeing her husband (Bogart) and his friends return from a night in Las Vegas, said words to the effect of “You look like a goddamn rat pack. Several explanations have been offered for the famous name over the years. The name “Rat Pack” was first used to refer to a group of friends in Hollywood, including the young Frank Sinatra.
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In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart’s death, that called itself “the summit” or “the clan,” featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean’s Eleven.ĭespite its reputation as a masculine group, the Rat Pack did have female participants, including movie icons Shirley MacLaine, Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson, Marilyn Monroe, and Judy Garland. The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. (L to R) Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford & Joey Bishop
Hand color tinted photo of The Rat Pack in front of the Sands Hotel Marque in February 1960
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