Frank Sinatra was at rock bottom as far as his career in Hollywood was concerned, but made his way back to the spotlight via Finspångs Folkets park in 1953 in front of 537 local fans. Hollywood no longer wanted to know about Frank Sinatra, he divorced his wife Nancy in 1951 to marry the actress Ava Gardner, "the most beautiful woman in the world" and he went to Las Vegas to get his career going again. But in 1952 he was fired from Columbia Pictures.. A year later he was in Sweden on tour and performed in Finspång. Only 537 turned up.The ticket was a whopping SEK 4 against the normal 1:50. The arrangement backfired.
Jan Harry "Janne" Halldoff was a Swedish photographer, film director and writer. His first feature film was "Myten/The Myth" in 1966. Two years later he landed his breakthrough, "Korridoren/The Corridor" a socially critical depiction of a Swedish medical care in crisis. Halldoff mades some 21 films in all. Ingmar Bergman thought highly of him; "A tall talented boy who would eventually make major films. "
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