Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular US entertainers of the 1950s, has died at 93.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”