rat pack

[huntlyn]

can you name the original members of the rat pack please

[Machecoul]

Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford (I think it's Lawford)

[isca]

and Joey Bishop...he wrote most of the gags.

[andy-hughes]

The original Holmby Hills Rat Pack was started by Humphrey Bogart - it was Lauren Bacall who said that "...they all look like a goddamned rat pack ..." and the nickname stuck. Sinatra, who more or less took over the 'leadership' after Bogart's death never liked the name, preferring to refer to his loose band of drinking pals as The Sumit, although he had originally called them The Clan, but dropped the name in 1960 to avoid association with the Ku Klux Klan which was becoming active at that time.

[isca]

Was 'the summit' not originally in reference to Sinatra and his pals when they were partying at The Sands in Las Vegas rather than as a general term for the rat pack?

[team_nemo]

wow...andy so knew that off the top of his head....and didnt go on google

[huntlyn]

thanks all, really helpful