Las Vegas, the friendly city, where the bank doesn’t lock their doors and everyone knows your name. Sinatra’s first ever film was 1941’s Las Vegas Nights. While boring to watch, it also serves as a fascinating time capsule of a brief era in Vegas history - a specific period of months, not years - and a bizarrely obsolete concept of the city that most have forgotten.

He was born in Estonia and spent his childhood running from the Soviets, before migrating to Australia at 19. In 1949, a bad Frank Sinatra movie called The Kissing Bandit changed his life - and set him on an unbelievable path of reckless adventure. He is a bizarre, lovable, fascinating figure. Why did history forget about Peeter Pedaja?

At nine years old, Bobby Long rose to fame on the vaudeville circuit as a tap dancer to rave reviews. At 14, he scored a big break with Jimmy Durante and Frank Sinatra in 1947’s It Happened in Brooklyn. Everyone was blown away by his talent. Then he disappeared from public life, seemingly almost overnight. What happened?

Much has been written about the American “Sinatra Riots” of 1942-44. But history forgot that Australia had their very own riot at the Sydney premiere of Frank Sinatra’s Step Lively in 1944. The events of that night set off a chain of events that lasted years, throwing a small teenage Sinatra fan club into the centre of a national scandal. In amongst it all, photographer Ivan Ives recognised the humanity of these young fans and decided to show the world who they really were.