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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore. Welcome to the

Cabinet of Curiosities. Frank Sinatra was one of the most iconic musical artists of all time.

His voice was synonymous with the idea of a crooner or a dreamy singer who sings love songs.

You may know that he was also a successful dramatic actor, but what most people

don't realize is that he was one role away from becoming an action star. Sanatra's acting

career began all the way back in the 1940s, but by 1968, he was looking to challenge himself,

to see if he could get outside of his wheelhouse. Up to this point, Sinatra tended to play characters that were kind of already in his DNA.

He was a singer, so he played singers.

He had a lot of friends in the mob, so he played mobsters.

He played a lot of criminals.

But could he play a character on the other side of the law?

His new film, The Detective, would give him that chance.

The detective was based on a novel by author Roderick Thorpe.

It follows Detective Joe Leland, a tired, working-class man, exposed to heinous crime after

heinous crime.

He doesn't like to listen to orders from his incompetent superiors, and his marriage is disintegrating

as he gets pulled in deeper and deeper by his work.

It was the perfect role for Sinatra.

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