How did "The Rat Pack" get that name? Hurry! I have to know by 4/7/09. Thanks for doing my research. Best, Ellen Kimball in Oregon?

May have come from 1) Lauren Bacall, after seeing her husband and his friends return from a night in Las Vegas, said words to the effect of "You look like a (expletive deleted) rat pack. 2) "Rat Pack" may also be a shortened version of "Holmby " a reference to the home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, which served as a regular hangout.3) Or, it may refer to the belief that an established pack of rats will belligerently reject an outsider who tries to join them (e.g."Never rat on a rat") 4) One other rumor holds that a certain gossip columnist wanted to be invited to the group's parties. The group didn't want their private parties becoming the subject of the writer's next column, and so the columnist was never invited.

Later, she was said to have written about "that rat pack in Holmby lls" Regarding the 1960’s Rat Pack, it seems the actual members of the group never referred to themselves as the Rat Pack, although journalists popularized the name. Members instead preferred to call themselves the Summit or the Clan.

There are actually two “Rat Pack”s… one from the 1950’s (originally consisting of people such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Humprey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and others), and the one more famous today from the 1960’s (comprised of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., etc. ) The origin of the name for the 1950’s “Rat Pack” may have come from 1) Lauren Bacall, after seeing her husband and his friends return from a night in Las Vegas, said words to the effect of "You look like a (expletive deleted) rat pack. 2) "Rat Pack" may also be a shortened version of "Holmby " a reference to the home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, which served as a regular hangout.3) Or, it may refer to the belief that an established pack of rats will belligerently reject an outsider who tries to join them (e.g."Never rat on a rat") 4) One other rumor holds that a certain gossip columnist wanted to be invited to the group's parties. The group didn't want their private parties becoming the subject of the writer's next column, and so the columnist was never invited.

Later, she was said to have written about "that rat pack in Holmby lls" Regarding the 1960’s Rat Pack, it seems the actual members of the group never referred to themselves as the Rat Pack, although journalists popularized the name. Members instead preferred to call themselves the Summit or the Clan.

Originally, the Rat Pack was a group of entertainers who were (drinking) friends of Humphrey Bogart. Frank Sinatra was one of the 'members. ' When Bogart died, early in 1957, Sinatra, who became romantically linked with Lauren Bacall, Bogart's widow, more or less took over the group.

The most plausible explanation for the origin of the name was Bacall's saying, one afternoon, when the Pack assembled at Bogart's house, that they looked like a pack of drowned rats. Since most, if not all, of the Pack were extremely heavy drinkers, with Bogart at the lead, this seems to make sense.

According to "legend," when Humphrey Bogart's wife saw the group, looking particularly bedraggled and disheveled, she said they looked like a "rat pack.

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