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40 “When Frank Sinatra”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 108.
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1. Though for the average American family in 1953, $1,000 was over two months’ income.
2. In the novel, Woltz’s racist rant is subtly different and less florid, to wit: “I don’t care how many guinea Mafia goombahs come out of the woodwork.” (Period, not exclamation point.) Strikingly, the word “Mafia” never occurs once in the movie of The Godfather, due to an agreement struck between the producer Al Ruddy and the crime-family chief Joe Colombo, the figurehead of the Italian-American Civil Rights League.
3. Appearing on Texaco Star Theater on February 3, Sinatra showed a horrified Uncle Miltie a shrunken head he had brought back from Africa. “It was Clark Gable,” Frank said. “Do you think I would leave him there with Ava?” (Server, Ava Gardner, p. 406).
4. Including the May 1952 miscarriage.
5. Ironically, in his turn as Nathan Detroit in the 1955 Guys and Dolls, Frank would find himself in a sense imitating himself imitating Maggio imitating Runyon’s original 1930s characters.
SOURCE NOTES
6 “He was delighted”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 170.
7 “Frank Sinatra, needing”: Earl Wilson on Broadway, syndicated column, Jan. 23, 1953.
8 “I wanted to tell”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 110.
9 “Pearl, they’ve offered”: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 111.
10 “Cohn hated Sinatra”: Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, p. 132.
11 “Now listen to me”: The Godfather (Paramount Pictures, 1972).
12 “Frank Sinatra and Harry Cohn”: Thomas, King Cohn, p. 305.
13 “It was the first time”: Ibid., p. 306.
14 “He doesn’t look”: Kelley, His Way, p. 210.
15 “Frank Sinatra has been”: International News Service, Feb. 3, 1953.
16 “Talked to Frank Sinatra”: International News Service, Feb. 4, 1953.
17 “Chums say Frankie”: Dorothy Kilgallen, The Voice of Broadway, syndicated column, Feb. 20, 1953.
18 “I didn’t think”: Gardner, Ava, p. 210.
19 “He never got over it”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 260.
20 “MONTGOMERY CLIFT”: Kelley, His Way, p. 215.
21 “DEAR HARRY”: Ibid.
22 “a kind of intensity”: James Jones, From Here to Eternity, p. 776.
23 “Because I want”: Bosworth, Montgomery Clift, p. 247.
24 “His scenes bristled”: Ibid., p. 130.
25 “Good dialogue”: Kelley, His Way, p. 217.
26 “We had a mutual”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 137.
27 “Monty really coached”: Kelley, His Way, p. 217.
28 “By his intensity”: Zinnemann, Life in the Movies, p. 122.
29 “As a singer”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 137.
30 “Sinatra here took”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 137.
31 “This outfit”: From Here to Eternity (MGM, 1953).
32 “He was scared”: Ernest Borgnine, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2009.
33 “The three of them”: Bosworth, Montgomery Clift, p. 252.
34 “got so used to carrying”: Buford, Burt Lancaster, p. 129.
35 “After we filmed”: Ernest Borgnine, in discussion with the author, Dec. 2009.
36 “box office insurance”: Wood Soanes, syndicated column, March 27, 1953.
37 “a smash success”: Ibid.
38 “We concocted a little”: Frank Morriss, syndicated column, March 26, 1953.
39 “Crooner Frank Sinatra”: International News Service, April 7, 1953.
40 “I told him”: Kelley, His Way, p. 216.
41 “Isn’t Frank Sinatra”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, March 2, 1953.
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1. Not to be confused with Lucy’s El Adobe Café, which opened just a few doors away on Melrose, years after the original Lucey’s closed.
2. A decade later, Dexter would go on to another form of infamy when, as head of the label’s Capitol of the World division, he turned down the Beatles—twice—as Capitol artists.
SOURCE NOTES
3 “Alan, we’ve just”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 206.
4 “Really?”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 171.
5 “He was meek”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 207.
6 “Frank Sinatra was signed”: Associated Press, March 14, 1953.
7 “We had every salesman”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 207.
8 “All hair restorers”: Newspaper Enterprise Association, March 16, 1953.
9 “Salient