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They appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s, including the movies Oceans 11, 2 and Sergeants 3; after Lawfords expulsion, they filmed Robin and the 7 Hoods with Bing Crosby in what was to be Lawfords role.

Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the groups lead members after Bogarts death.

According to one version, Lauren Bacall saw her husband Humphrey Bogart and his friends returning from a night in Las Vegas and said, You look like a goddamn rat pack.

According to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were Frank Sinatra (pack master), Judy Garland (first vice-president), 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.

This group was originally known as the Clan, 7 but that name fell out of favor because it was reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.

Kennedy (dubbed Brother-in-Lawford by Sinatra), 11 and Kennedy spent time with Sinatra and the others when he visited Las Vegas, during which members sometimes referred to the group as the Jack Pack.

Kennedy advised his brother to sever ties to Sinatra because of his association with Mafia figures such as Sam Giancana and he cancelled the visit.

Kennedy instead stayed at Bing Crosby s estate, which further infuriated Sinatra.

Lawford was blamed for this and Sinatra never again had a good word for him.

Lawfords role was written out of the upcoming 4 for Texas, and his part in Robin and the 7 Hoods was given to Bing Crosby.

At the press conference to announce the tour, Martin joked about calling it off, and Sinatra rebuked a reporter for using the term Rat Pack, referring to it as that stupid phrase.

Martin had since become increasingly dependent on alcohol and prescription drugs.

Davis had hip replacement surgery two years previously, and was estranged from Sinatra because of Davis use of cocaine.

Davis was also experiencing severe financial difficulties, and was promised by Sinatras people that he could earn between six and eight million dollars from the tour.

Get him out. For that alone it would be worth doing.

Sinatra and Davis still performed regularly, yet they had not recorded for several years.

Both Sinatra and Martin had made their last film appearances together in 1984s Cannonball Run II, which also starred Davis.

This marked the trios first feature film appearance since 1964s Robin and the 7 Hoods.

Martin expressed reservations about the tour, wondering whether they could draw as many people as they had in the past.

Sinatra and Davis complained during private rehearsals about the lack of black musicians in the orchestra.

The tour began at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena on March 13, 1988 to a sold-out crowd of 14,500.

During the show, Martin threw a lit cigarette at the audience.

He withdrew from the tour after just five shows, citing a flare-up of a kidney problem.

Sinatra and Davis continued the tour under the title The Ultimate Event with Liza Minnelli replacing Martin as the third member of the trio.

He was buried with a gold watch that Sinatra had given him at the conclusion of The Ultimate Event Tour.

A review in The New York Times praised Daviss performance, describing it as pure, ebullient, unapologetic show business.

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She had a major role (and Sinatra a cameo) in the 1956 Oscar -winning film Around the World in 80 Days.

MacLaine played a Hindu princess who is rescued by, and falls in love with, original Rat Pack associate David Niven, and Sinatra had a non-speaking, non-singing role as a piano player in a saloon, whose identity is concealed from the viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring Marlene Dietrich and George Raft.

She also had an appearance in the 1960 film Oceans 11 as a drunken woman.

The 1984 film Cannonball Run II, with MacLaine, marked the final time members of the Rat Pack shared theatrical screen-time together.

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