His Way_ The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra - Kitty Kelley [325]
(AP/Wide World Photos)
Sinatra arriving to testify before a grand jury about “Wrong door raid” on Marilyn Monroe, 1957
(AP/Wide World Photos)
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
(Copyright © Stanley Tretick)
Addressing the President and First Lady at their second inaugural gala
(Terry Arthur)
With daughter Tina and the Reagans in the Blue Room after Frank received the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom
(Copyright © Stanley Tretick)
With Harry James rehearsing for a broadcast
(AP/Wide World Photos)
With Aniello Dellacroce, underboss of Gambino family
Frank at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, sporting a mustache and the beginnings of a goatee, 1969
(AP/Wide World Photos)
Frank Sinatra’s attorney, Milton (Mickey) Rudin, at a 1974 news conference after Frank’s Melbourne concert was cancelled
(UPI/Bettmann Newphotos)
So tight is security around Sinatra that he has had it written into his contracts that not a single soul, no matter how famous, is to be allowed backstage, or even to approach him. Yet members of the nation’s most powerful Mafia family managed to get his attention in 1976 at the Westchester Premier Theatre. Top row: Paul Castellano, Gregory De Palma, Thomas Marson, Carlo Gambino, Jimmy Fratianno, Salvatore Spatola; bottom row: Joe Gambino, Richard Fusco
Frank with his bride Barbara Marx and Nancy and Ronald Reagan, 1976
(New York Daily News Photo)
“Little Nancy” and “Little Frank,” as they were known, at a radio broadcast in 1947
Frank and Nancy at their New Year’s Eve party, 1947
Ava Gardner at the same party
In Reno with manager Hank Sanicola and business partner Ben Barton
(New York Daily News Photo)