Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney and Cesar Romero.Īccording to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were: Frank Sinatra (pack master), Judy 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 In his autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon, David Niven confirms that the Rat Pack originally included him but not Sammy Davis, Jr. 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.”may also be a shortened version of “Holmby Hills reference to the home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall which served as a regular hangout. The name “ The Rat Pack” was first used to refer to a group of friends in New York with several explanations offered for the famous name over the years.
we thought as the British Rat Pack are not tribute artists we could help and inform those seeking an excellent show in their search for that kind of entertainment while being unbiased with back ground information into the their origins.ġ st off we’ll start with a popular search question as in “ Who was in the Rat Pack ” which simply answered is of course, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop & Peter Lawford, though the conceptual source of the name is believed to have come from Humphrey Bogart’s wife Lauren Bacall. With so many Rat Pack tribute acts out there performing Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davies Jr.
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