Claim: Frank Sinatra wrote the memoir The Man with the Golden Arm.
Evidence: After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity , he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm -LRB- 1955 -RRB- , and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate -LRB- 1962 -RRB-.
The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir , based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren , which tells the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison , but struggles to stay that way in the outside world.