Everything You Didn't Know About the Rat Pack

Compromising with Sinatra

Peter Lawford was the first of the rat pack to acquire the rights to the famous heist movie Ocean's 11. His idea was to have William Holden play the lead role of Danny Ocean. When Lawford ran that idea by Frank Sinatra, Sinatra said, 'Forget the movie, let's pull the job!" In order to quell his feelings of pulling off a million-dollar heist, Lawford cast Sinatra as Danny Ocean. 

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