Originally, The Rat Pack was a group of friends who met at Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s house. As legend has it, the “Den Mother” Lauren Bacall said to her husband Bogie and his friends when they were coming back from a night in Vegas:  “You look like a goddamn rat pack.” If she was calling them out for looking worse for wear, they probably shouldn’t have driven the 4-and-a-half-hour drive from Vegas. But hey, it was the 50s. By all accounts, the original members were: Frank Sinatra (pack master), Judy Garland (first vice-president), Sid Luft (cage master), Bogart (rat in charge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), Lauren Bacall (Den Mother), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. (That’s quite a group).