LOS ANGELES, CA.- A 1945 Golden Globe awarded to Frank Sinatra for the short film “The House I Live In” will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 12, 2019.

Sinatra was awarded his first Golden Globe for the “Promoting International Understanding” category. In the 1945 film “The House I Live In,” Sinatra convinces a group of young boys to stop bullying a Jewish boy, telling them, "Do you know what this wonderful country is made of? It's made up of 100 different kinds of people, and 100 different ways of talking, and 100 different ways of going to church. But they're all American ways."

The Hollywood Foreign Press awarded the “Promoting International Understanding” Golden Globe from 1946-1964. Sinatra was the first recipient of this award.

This Golden Globe is the only major award won by Frank Sinatra ever to appear at auction. Sinatra’s family donated the majority of his awards to the University of Southern California where they are displayed at Frank Sinatra Hall.

“The House I Live In” is a ten-minute short film and was written by Albert Maltz. It received an Honorary Academy Award and was selected by the Library of Congress in 2007 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Sinatra was a long-time advocate for racial equality. He was a major supporter for desegregation in the Las Vegas hotels and casinos throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra and his Rat Pack entourage boycotted hotels that banned entry to black performers and patrons. After Sinatra found out Nat King Cole was prohibited from eating at the Sands Hotel and Casino dining room, he threatened to have all the hotel’s servers fired and invited Cole to dine with him the following night. In 1961, Sinatra played a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in New York for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Frank Sinatra Jr. said King wept in the audience at a 1963 Sinatra concert. Sinatra sang Ol' Man River, from the musical Show Boat, which is sung by an African-American stevedore.

Sinatra was also a strong supporter of Jewish causes. In 1942, Sinatra responded to reports about the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews by having hundreds of medallions engraved with an image of Saint Christopher on one side and the Star of David on the other. The medallions were delivered to American soldiers fighting in Europe. The following year, Sinatra joined Ben Hecht’s national tour of “We Will Never Die,” a dramatic pageant dedicated to the two million Jewish civilians murdered in Europe at the time. Sinatra was an avid supporter for the establishment of the State of Israel. In September 1947, he performed at an Action for Palestine rally at the Hollywood Bowl that drew 20,000 supporters. The famed singer was even involved in a secret operation on behalf of the Haganah. According to long-time Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, “I had an Irish ship captain sitting in the port of New York with a ship full of munitions destined for Israel. He had phony bills of lading and was to take the shipment outside the three-mile limit and transfer it on to another ship. But a large sum of money had to be handed over, and I didn't know how to get it to him. If I walked out the door carrying the cash, the Feds would intercept me and wind up confiscating the munitions.

"I went downstairs to the bar and Sinatra came over, and we were talking. I don't know what came over me, but I told him what I was doing in the United States and what my dilemma was. And in the early hours of the following morning I walked out the front door of the building with a satchel, and the Feds followed me. Out the back door went Frank Sinatra, carrying a paper bag filled with cash [estimated at $1 million]. He went down to the pier, handed it over, and watched the ship sail.”

Sinatra also actively fund-raised for Israel Bonds and established two intercultural centers in Israel, the Frank Sinatra Brotherhood and Friendship Center for Arab and Israeli Children in Nazareth: and the Frank Sinatra International Student Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Sinatra’s Golden Globe features a sculpture in relief of the Earth encircled by a laurel wreath at its base. The sculpture sits atop a metal base with the plaque engraved, "To FRANK SINATRA / For the Picture With the Best / International Feeling Produced in / 1945 / Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association.”

Bidding on Sinatra’s Golden Globe begins at $50,000.