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Article: Hollywood and the White House; Presidents and movie stars have long shared their power with each other.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 24, 2004
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Byline: Jonathon Keats
On Nov. 4, 1944, Frank Sinatra performed for a crowd of 40,000 in Boston's Fenway Park. But they hadn't come to hear him. Nor were they there for Orson Welles, who followed Sinatra's "Star Spangled Banner" with a spitfire oration excoriating Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey. The star attraction that floodlit evening was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who followed Welles with a 45-minute campaign speech that brought the crowd to its feet. Sinatra, already world-famous in his own right, watched with admiration and a touch of envy. "What a guy," he murmured, "and boy, does he pack 'em in."
Of course, Sinatra's star-spangled ...