Rat Pack Rat Pack The Rat Pack is a term used by the media to refer to an informal group of entertainers centered on the Las Vegas casino scene. Having its origins in a group of friends that met at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, by the 1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group that called itself "the Summit" or "the Clan", featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among others; they appeared together on stage
Rat Pack alongside Sinatra in the 1960 film "Can-Can". She also had an appearance in the 1960 film "Ocean's 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. A biopic, "The Rat Pack", made by HBO in 1998, starred Ray Liotta as Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Martin and Don Cheadle as Davis, dramatizing their private lives and, in particular, their roles in the 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. "Christmas with the Rat Pack", a collection of holiday tunes sung by Sinatra, Martin and