Tina Sinatra

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Christina "Tina" Sinatra (born June 20, 1948 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and film producer . She is the youngest child of Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato , and the sister of Frank Sinatra Jr. and Nancy Sinatra .

Life

From 1968 Tina Sinatra lived for some time in Munich with the director Michael Pflegehar and worked on several television productions in the Bavaria Studios . She also appeared in a number of television films in the USA in the 1970s.

In 1992 she produced the multi-hour miniseries Sinatra - The Road to the Top about her father's life for the television station CBS , with Philip Casnoff in the title role. In 2004 she co-produced the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, a thriller first filmed in 1962 with her father in the lead role. An illustrated book with selected works by the amateur painter Frank Sinatra, published in 1991, was followed by her memoirs My Father's Daughter in 2000 .

Her marriage (1974–1978) to the composer and music producer Wes Farrell remained childless.

In 1997 Tina Sinatra was one of the signatories of an open letter to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , which compared the treatment of the Scientology sect by the Federal Republic of Germany with the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich. The letter was printed in the International Herald Tribune and caused great outrage in Germany.

literature

  • Tina Sinatra (ed.): Frank Sinatra - A Man And His Art. Random House, Westminster 1991, ISBN 0-394-58297-7 .
  • Tina Sinatra / Jeff Coplon: My Father's Daughter. A memoir. Simon & Schuster, New York City 2000, ISBN 0-7432-0433-6 .

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Sinatra, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinatra, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles