page_title: Peter Lawford
section_title: Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Lawford / Career / Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack
caption_attribution_description: English: (1 in a 4-picture set) Back in the day, the Rat Pack partied hardy at the Cal-Neva Casino. L-R: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. Underground tunnels led from their rooms to the showroom, so that they could avoid the autograph seekers.
context_page_description: Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford was an English-American actor, producer, and socialite, who lived in the United States throughout his adult life.
  He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was said that he was "famous for being famous".
context_section_description: In 1959, Sinatra invited Lawford to join the "Rat Pack" and also got him a role in Never So Few (1959).
  Peter Lawford and Sinatra appeared in Oceans 11 (1960). Lawford had been first told of the basic story of the film by director Gilbert Kay, who heard the idea from a gas station attendant. Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958, imagining William Holden in the lead. Sinatra became interested in the idea, and a variety of writers worked on the project.
  Lawford played a British soldier in the acclaimed Israeli-set drama Exodus (1960) for Otto Preminger and had a cameo in Pepe (1960). In 1960, he became an American citizen and assisted on his brother-in-law's successful presidential election.
  He did a TV remake of The Farmer's Daughter (1962) with Lee Remick and was reunited with the Rat Pack in Sergeants 3 (1962).
  Lawford played a Senator in Advise & Consent (1962) for Preminger and was Lord Lovat in  The Longest Day (1962), a war film with a star-studded cast.
caption: Members of the "Rat Pack", L-R: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Lawford, and Joey Bishop
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