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10 “It was late”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 174.
11 “Could they have been”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, April 2, 1953.
12 “Sinatra appears”: Hal Humphrey, syndicated column, April 15, 1953.
13 “The singer said”: Associated Press, April 15, 1953.
14 “Deborah Kerr and me”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 109.
15 “Sinatra was at his best”: Zinnemann, Life in the Movies, p. 124.
16 “Frank was very”: Wagner, Pieces of My Heart, p. 123.
17 “Every night, after work”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 97.
18 “Frank Sinatra, who tossed”: Dorothy Kilgallen, The Voice of Hollywood, syndicated column, April 24, 1953.
19 “He was very, very good”: Zinnemann, Life in the Movies, p. 130.
20 “Frank and Monty”: Kelley, His Way, p. 218.
21 “His fervor, his anger”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 112.
22 “I was on the sidelines”: Kelley, His Way, p. 218.
23 “Sinatra delivered”: Zinnemann, Life in the Movies, p. 130.
24 “I can’t blame him”: Ibid. 616 “got the string”: Lyrics from “I’ve Got the World on a String,” words by Ted Koehler, music by Harold Arlen (1932).
25 “Who wrote that”: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 113.
26 “He couldn’t help”: Ibid., p. 24.
27 “Riddle was still”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 216.
28 “Now we have”: Ibid., p. 217.
29 “ ‘South of the Border’—I thought”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 176.
30 “Jesus Christ”: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 113.
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1. The previous December, while she and the children were away, she’d received a visit of another kind: from a burglar, who took some $30,000 worth of her jewelry.
2. Though some people were listening. “What are they talking about in Hollywood?” wrote Bob Thomas of the Associated Press, on July 18. “The amazing comeback of Frank Sinatra on his new records. He sings zingy like the old Frankie-boy.”
3. One wonders if he was thinking, consciously or unconsciously, about the magic Sinatra had once worked at the Capitol with Miss Grant Takes Richmond.
SOURCE NOTES
4 “Sinatra was at his”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 218.
5 “Nelson was standing”: Ibid.
6 “Crooner Frank Sinatra”: Associated Press, May 4, 1953.
7 “Nancy Sinatra’s steadfast date”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 4, 1953.
8 “There was no way”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 50.
9 “I’d rather swim the Channel”: Kelley, His Way, p. 222.
10 “Sinatra has been a flop”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 177.
11 “Agence France Presse”: International News Service, May 31, 1953.
12 “FRANK SINATRA HAS COLLAPSE”: United Press, June 1, 1953.
13 “We came back”: Gardner, Ava, p. 336.
14 “Sinatra is still”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 176.
15 “Imagine”: Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 90.
16 “Cohn had decided”: Zinnemann, Life in the Movies, p. 131.
17 “came up from the lobby”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 111.
18 “Dialogue between Ava”: Frank Morriss, syndicated column, Aug. 12, 1953.
19 “Looking through my”: Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, Aug. 19, 1953.
20 “For the first time”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 177.
21 “ACADEMY AWARD RACE”: Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal, Aug. 30, 1953.
22 “Frank Sinatra has been receiving”: Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, Aug. 31, 1953.
23 “Those dark cheaters”: Lee Mortimer, syndicated column, Aug. 31, 1953.
24 “Ava, honey, you do know”: Gardner, Ava, p. 336.
25 “A close friend”: United Press, Sept. 9, 1953.
26 “FRANKIE AND AVA FEUDING”: United Press, Sept. 10, 1953.
27 “I saw a picture”: Kelley, His Way, p. 224.
28 “You start with love”: Ibid.
29 “Every big star”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 11, 1953.
30 “Electrifying”: Fisher, Eddie, p. 226.
31 “Frank let loose”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 182.
32 “Frank Sinatra’s intimates”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Sept. 16, 1953.
33 “As a Cupid”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 12, 1953.
34 “She kissed me”: Kelley, His Way, p. 224.
35 “The Voice unleashed a torrent”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 226.
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