QUESTION Were any famous figures expelled from school?

Frank Sinatra attended A. J. Demarest High School in 1931. He was expelled 47 days later for 'general rowdiness'. His school principal wrote that he 'showed no real talent for anything'.

Twilight actor Robert Pattinson was expelled from Tower House School, a prep school in London, aged 12, for a rather embarrassing reason. He told Howard Stern's Sirius XM: abuse 'I was stealing porno magazines and selling them at school...'

Marlon Brando was expelled from Libertyville High School in Chicago for riding his motorcycle through the corridors.




Frank Sinatra (pictured) attended A. J. Demarest High School in 1931





Marlon Brando (pictured) was expelled from Libertyville High School in Chicago for riding his motorcycle through the corridors

Humphrey Bogart was expelled from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for indolence and poor academic performance. He later claimed, in an attempt to burnish his image, that he pushed a teacher into a pond.

Alexander Dyer, Stamford, Lincs.

QUESTION How does a song qualify to become part of the Great American Songbook?