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25 “degenerate”: Kelley, His Way, p. 136.
26 “I’ll kill you”: Ibid.
27 “For two years”: Ibid.
28 “Every time Frank”: Ibid., p. 135.
29 “Jeez, I think”: Ibid., p. 137.
30 “SINATRA ARRESTED”: Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1947.
31 “Frankie … was met”: Ibid., Jan. 31, 1947.
32 “Frank came in”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 72.
33 “[giving] the story headlines”: “Words & Music,” Time, April 21, 1947.
34 “1. Mr. Mortimer said he had”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 26.
35 “arrest on a sex offense”: Ibid., p. 31.
36 “I talked this afternoon”: Ibid.
37 “It was a right-hand punch”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 73.
38 “Frank taught me to swim”: Gloria Delson Franks, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
CHAPTER 21
1. She would name names to HUAC in 1952, and regret it the rest of her life.
2. Weirdly enough, considering Sinatra’s future history, Tarantino’s first brush with the law in California revolved around the apparently staged 1945 kidnapping of his son, James junior, and his wife. Tarantino charged that the kidnapping had been engineered by the right-wing demagogue Gerald L. K. Smith in retaliation for Tarantino’s bold editorial stands against anti-Semitism and Fascism in … Hollywood Nite Life. Sinatra telegraphed the district attorney on his behalf.
3. Mostly. A photograph from a late-1940s Los Angeles radio appearance shows Frank and Nat “King” Cole sitting and looking at each other: while Sinatra is grinning with undisguised pleasure at being in Cole’s presence, the latter’s expression is wary and haughty.
SOURCE NOTES
4 “I couldn’t stand kissing”: Kelley, His Way, p. 141.
5 “I wanna house”: Christopher Reed, “E. Stewart Williams: Architect Whose Design for Frank Sinatra’s House Launched a Style of Desert Modernism,” www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/nov/01/.
6 “The show is alternately dull”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 126.
7 “A campaign of propaganda”: Westbrook Pegler, King Features Syndicate, Sept. 10, 1947.
8 “I insist the ‘Communist Party’ ”: Victor Riesel, “Plot—Not a Party,” Chester (Pa.) Times, Sept. 10, 1947.
9 “of many writers”: Westbrook Pegler, King Features Syndicate, Sept. 10, 1947.
10 “impugned the professional integrity”: Ibid.
11 “Sinatra has several”: Kahn, Voice, p. 23.
12 “Kahn writes also”: Westbrook Pegler, King Features Syndicate, Sept. 11, 1947.
13 “From time to time”: Westbrook Pegler, King Features Syndicate, Dec. 8, 1947.
14 “The crooner”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 116.
15 “Broadway whispers”: Ibid., p. 115.
16 “I hurried around”: Davis, Yes I Can, p. 82.
17 “I can speak”: Ibid., p. 86.
18 “always has a colored act”: Ibid., p. 106.
19 “There’s a kid”: Ibid., p. 110.
CHAPTER 22
1. In fact, this may have been the moment when, as a tribute to the great love of his life, Frank Albert became Francis Albert for all time.
2. He had rewritten the script for Gone With the Wind on the same condition.
3. Yes, the very tune with which Dean Martin would score a huge hit sixteen years later, toppling the Beatles from the number-1 spot on the Billboard charts.
SOURCE NOTES
4 “I don’t want her”: Lyrics from “Too Fat Polka,” words and music by Ross MacLean and Arthur Richardson (New York: Shapiro, Bernstein, 1947).
5 “If you looked down”: Cahn, I Should Care, p. 95.
6 “I looked at him”: Gardner, Ava, p. 219.
7 “one of the greatest”: Ibid.
8 “On this trip”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 59.
9 “We’d had a few other governesses”: Ibid.
10 “When the Crosby kids”: Gary Giddins, in discussion with the author, Oct. 2006.
11 “I remember her”: Crosby and Firestone, Going My Own Way, p. 76.
12 “When Bing realized”: Giddins, discussion.
13 “Right now”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 125.
14 “Pompous and funereal”: Bosley Crowther, “Miracle of the Bells,” New York Times, March 17, 1948.
15 “Frank Sinatra, looking”: “The New Pictures,” Time, March 29, 1948.
16 “a hunk of religious”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 100.
17 “the worst single”: “Last Year