TCM's December Spotlight to Honor Frank Sinatra, Marking the 100th Anniversary of his Birth.

In celebration of Star of the Month, Frank Sinatra, TCM will be showing not only 35 of the most important films in his high-octane career but also five TV specials he did between 1965 and 2011, including, on December 23, a holiday musical gift called Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank (1957). In this special, he shares the stage doing holiday songs with the great Mr. Crosby, Frank's longtime friend who once famously said, "A voice like Sinatra's comes along once in a lifetime but why did he have to come along in mine?" 

Every Wednesday TCM will be showing all the important Sinatra film landmarks, from an early screen appearance in 1943 singing "Night and Day" in a B-level Ann Miller musical titled Reveille with Beverly to five films from his years at MGM where he survived being consistently miscast as the nerdy second banana too scared to talk to girls in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949) and It Happened in Brooklyn (1947). 

TCM will also show Sinatra's brilliant dramatic turns in From Here to Eternity (1953), Suddenly (1954), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Some Came Running (1958); also Frank during his icon-in-residence period in such films as High Society (1956), Pal Joey (1957), and a Sinatra thriller never before shown on TCM, 1968's The Detective with Lee Remick.

Watch December Star of the Month, Frank Sinatra, on Wednesdays on TCM.