“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are.”
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Frank Sinatra
Attributed
c. 1960
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“Well known for a sometimes brittle personality, Frank Sinatra didn’t suffer fools gladly, although the warmth that he projected in his delivery of some of the greatest love songs ever written was also expressed in his personal life. He was an outspoken liberal who did much to promote race relations in the entertainment industry, but his past was clouded by an association with organized crime that he found hard to shake off. That, and a reputation for bursts of violence – particularly against intrusive reporters and paparazzi – meant that there were aspects of his past life that he couldn’t deny.
There is also an anthology to physical disfigurements in the above quotation. Sinatra bore scars to his face from his birth, a forceps delivery. More concerned with the fate of his mother, the hospital staff laid the new-born infant to one side, his grandmother being the one who revived the baby under a cold tap. The scar on the left of Sinatra’s face run from the corner of his mouth, and as a teenager he was nicknamed Scarface. As a teen idol in the 1940s he tried to cover up the blemish, by the 1960s he had admitted that, like the dubious aspects of his past, it made him what he was.” (ME)
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