by James Kaplan
The studio engineer Lee: Herschberg, discussion.
“Costa could write”: Malin, discussion.
“extremely upset”: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 156.
“Don Costa was a great”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 162.
“Do you know who Don”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 381.
“Sinatra and Strings,” the arranger: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 162.
“Don Costa was among”: Ibid.
to the tune of $100,000: Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Dec. 12, 1961.
He also liked to carry: Anka, My Way, p. 193.
“one unusual distinction”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 209.
“There was a beef”: Nollen, Jilly!, p. 30.
“A remarkable Chinese”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, March 13, 1961.
“the blue Jew”: Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” Esquire, April 1966.
And not impressed: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Jilly was successful”: Nollen, Jilly!, p. 33.
“One night, somebody”: Monty Alexander, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2006.
He also was not a drinker: Ibid.
in Thailand, the maharaja: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, Dec. 27, 1961.
“agonizing loneliness”: Walter Winchell, Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, Jan. 24, 1962.
“serious inasmuch as I was”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 301.
Sinatra’s old nemesis: Lee Mortimer, syndicated column, Jan. 20, 1961.
“to induce [Goldstone]”: Lee Mortimer, syndicated column, Dec. 30, 1960, and March 6, 1961.
“got excited seeing attractive”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 4, 1962.
“soaking it all up”: Saunders, Torn Lace Curtain, p. 134.
“I was surprised”: Ibid.
That same month: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 308.
CHAPTER 17
“Somewhere east of Suez”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 310.
“The Clansmen loaf”: Knight, Sinatra, p. 227.
“Sammy Davis’ idol worshiping”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 4, 1962.
When Juliet Prowse returned: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 308.
“A great girl”: James Bacon, syndicated column, Jan. 10, 1962.
“I don’t believe there’s any”: Associated Press, Jan. 10, 1962.
He produced a diamond: Shaw, Sinatra, pp. 301–2.
“I don’t think Frank will ever”: Ibid., p. 302.
“a few moments”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 18, 1962.
“Juliet Prowse will ascend”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 15, 1962.
“I have no idea”: United Press, Jan. 29, 1962.
“The word was out”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Jan. 26, 1962.
“merely a marvelous”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Jan. 17, 1962.
“Irresponsible people”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 302.
“Those were really something”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 345; Peter Levinson, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
He’d directed adaptations: Roberts, Great American Playwrights, p. 403.
“the most spectacular”: John Crosby, syndicated column, Feb. 13, 1960.
“as his first truly personal”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 142.
“Without you, we wouldn’t”: See special-features interview on Manchurian Candidate DVD.
“rehears[ing] other cast”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 317.
“I thought it would be”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 161.
He carried it around: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 142.
He told everyone who would listen: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 161.
“Sinatra treated his fellow”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 145.
for a fee of $270,000: Ibid., p. 143.
“As Ball aged”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 316.
“According to the gossip”: Joe Hyams, syndicated column, Herald Tribune News Service, Feb. 10, 1962.
“The scene was a two-shot”: Ibid.
Frank sent Rizzo: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 1, 1962.
“Instead of putting a thumb”: New York Herald Tribune, Feb. 21, 1962.
“Frank Sinatra and Richard Nixon”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 9, 1962.
“that, if Sinatra goes through”: Hy Gardner, syndicated column, Feb. 4, 1962.
“All those who bet”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 303.
Sammy Davis Jr. even: Ibid.
Then, on February 20: Miami News, Feb. 22, 1962; Shaw, Sinatra, p. 304.
“Juliet Prowse and Frank Sinatra today”: United Press, Feb. 23, 1962.
“Neither will be available”: Miami News, Feb. 22, 1962.
“I don’t intend to give up”: Ibid.
“No tears whatsoever”: United Press, Feb. 23, 1962.
“Why should she”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 304.
Meanwhile, according to: Ibid.
“Talk about short”: Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger, Feb. 27, 1962.
“Juliet wanted Frank to give up”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 304.
“Frank Sinatra’s pals”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, March 4, 1962.
“I would have married Frank”: Shaw, Sinatra, pp. 304–5.
“an upward spiral”: Friedwald, Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, p. 195.
“The inclusion of Frank”: Cynthia Lowry, syndicated column, Feb. 26, 1962.
“Unfortunately the years”: William E. Sarmento, Lowell (Mass.) Sun, Feb. 26, 1962.
The visit was set: Associated Press, March 23, 1962.
as arranged by Peter: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 78.
“We worked for weeks”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 163.
“The news fed Dad’s”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 78.
“Bobby, the Puritan”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 163.
“simply misread”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 167.
“For Kennedy, the association”: Ibid., p. 160.
“Sinatra had been at center”: Ibid., p. 159.
“Frank Sinatra has been asked”: United Press, Dec. 1, 1961.
“The split came in two”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 164.
“always the bureaucrat”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 312.
“the extraordinary danger”: Ibid.
“A review of her telephone”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 158–60.
She had also made: Kelley, His Way, p. 300.
“that he had to stop”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 312–13.
“ ‘What is this shit’ ”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 163.
“There was an endless”: Ibid.
though Tina Sinatra: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 79.
“When Jack got out here”: Kelley, His Way, p. 302.
“rubbing salt in a sore”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 150.
“remote, affect-less”: Ibid.
“Sinatra’s petulance”: Ibid.
“was in a snit”: Ibid., pp. 150–51.
“the Campbell calls”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 494–95.
“I saw Jack in March”: Exner, My Story, p. 252.
“Frank Sinatra flew out”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 28, 1962.
“Had the Kennedys sought”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 79.
“Sinatra was a great Democrat”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 166.
“It meant nothing”: Ibid.
“If he would only pick up the telephone”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 496.
A couple of months: Peter Edson, syndicated column, June 15, 1962.
He would get another: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 166.
“The breach with JFK”: Kelley, His Wa
y, p. 305.
His former publicists: Ibid., p. 304.
“Sinatra’s humane contribution”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 309.
“We went all over”: Kelley, His Way, p. 304.
“the largest humanitarian”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, pp. 384–85.
“If it weren’t for Neal”: Down Beat, Nov. 2, 1955.
“easy, very easy”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 403.
Besides George Jacobs: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, April 25, 1962; Kelley, His Way, p. 305; Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 180.
The assemblage didn’t: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, April 26, 1962.
A UPI telephoto: United Press Telephoto, April 23, 1962.
“total lack of curiosity”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 179.
“The only cherries”: Ibid., p. 183.
“tanned and dapper”: Pacific Stars and Stripes, April 21, 1962.
“a living legend”: Al Ricketts column, ibid.
received a gold key: United Press, April 24, 1962.
and had an orphanage: Kelley, His Way, p. 304.
But he’d underestimated: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 185.
“Frank worked especially”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 391.
“ ‘Fucking slant-eye’ ”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 185.
After handing a $17,000: United Press, May 2, 1961.
In Nazareth, he laid: United Press, May 7, 1961.
Israel, he said: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 188–89.
“seen everywhere”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, May 17, 1962.
“My job was basically”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 389.
“Ava did not think”: Ibid.
“Some like the perfume”: Emil Richards, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
Bill Miller considered the first: Giuseppe Marcucci, interactive biodiscography, Where or When: The Definitive Sinatra Database.
“his favorite of all”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 189.
“He called all of us”: Richards, discussion.
“I look out, and there’s Frank”: Ibid.
In 1961, the Joint Civic: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.2050-411X.1996.tb00141.x/asset/j.2050-411X.1996.tb00141.x.pdf?v=1&t=i9ack6gq&s=f113c9669853a566eb36e52a4a4c43aaa402bd78.
“The switch is”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, June 19, 1962.
A planned album: Marcucci, Where or When.
“Ava, Ava”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 191.
“I’m-a have a little”: Recording of May 26, 1962, Milan concert.
“Thank you very much”: Recording of May 30, 1962, London concert.
“the height of professionalism”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 390.
“Ol’ Man River,” too: Wilder, American Popular Song, p. 56.
“Sinatra needed ‘Ol’ Man River’ ”: Decker, Who Should Sing “Ol’ Man River”?, p. 188.
CHAPTER 18
“he had next to nothing”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 390.
“We had our most fun”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 192–93.
Like Billy May: Clarke, Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, p. 409.
“the greatest writer”: Ibid.
“big disc plans”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 392.
whose head of A&R: Lewisohn, Tune In, p. 589.
“on the evening of June 12”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, pp. 395–96.
“This tea I drink”: Private recording of June 1, 1962, Royal Festival Hall concert.
“Damn, we gotta sleep”: Private recording of Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain outtakes.
“He was finding it”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, pp. 396–97.
While the arranger was: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 206.
Riddle had been part: United Press, June 2, 1962.
“Frank was in a good”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, June 21, 1962.
“I wish it was five”: Kelley, His Way, p. 306.
“I found out a lot”: Associated Press, June 20, 1962.
“It was windy”: Associated Press, June 18, 1962.
By the first quarter: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 51.
“offered its entire Sinatra”: Ibid.
“that Reprise artists”: Ibid., p. 49.
“Cronies aside”: Ibid., p. 50.
“The only thing that was meaningful”: Ibid.
“The bands that I loved”: Crystal, 700 Sundays, pp. 112–13.
“Frank actually forbade”: Mo Ostin, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2012.
“dealer demands that Reprise”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 311.
Her chaos had proved: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 171.
“Well, it wasn’t a big thing”: Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, p. 403.
despite the insistences: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 104.
Their third meeting: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, pp. 486–87.
“She spent the night”: Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, p. 403.
The singularity of the occasion: Ibid.; Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 697.
“Thank you. I can now retire”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 315.
“We were all moths”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 590–91.
Concerned that her over-the-top: Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, p. 411.
On June 9, the same day: Associated Press, June 9, 1962.
“It’s sad, but no studio”: Ibid.
“a pawn—an interesting”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 535.
Shortly after she was fired: United Press, June 11, 1962.
“Frankly, I don’t know”: United Press, June 18, 1962.
“In the meantime”: David Lewin, dispatch, July 18, 1962.
“Lying [expletive]!”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 156.
“Let’s show ’em”: Kelley, His Way, p. 329.
“Once I got $1,750,000”: Ibid., p. 313.
But apparently Giancana: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 186.
Skinny D’Amato was wiretapped: Kelley, His Way, p. 312.
an I. Magnin clothing: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 183.
“a completely new swank”: Nevada State Journal, June 23, 1962.
The piece did not mention: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 184.
“I am going to get”: Kelley, His Way, p. 313.
“help improve local roads”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 158.
if not, as some have asserted: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 176.
“The dawn mists”: Associated Press, July 15, 1962.
“They’d call up and tell”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 289.
“Frank Sinatra’s first business venture”: Variety, July 11, 1962.
“The shapely South African”: James Bacon, dispatch, July 2, 1962.
“Everything’s wonderful”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, June 14, 1962.
sneaking in by helicopter: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 290.
In retaliation, Sinatra: Kelley, His Way, pp. 314–15; Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 186.
a maroon convertible: Nevada State Journal, July 19, 1962.
“with his curiosity”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 591.
“You can’t not hear”: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, p. 404.
“Marilyn Monroe is a soldier”: Ibid., pp. 404–5.
“near-verbatim” transcript: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 103–4.
a combination of tranquilizers: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, p. 402.
Engelberg, too, had: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, pp. 537–46.
“Frank is a very, very”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 272.
Variety places the Lawfords: Variety, July 24, 1962.
And while Joe DiMaggio: Associated Press, July 29, 1962.
Newspaper accounts confirm: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, July 27, 1962.
a former Cal-Neva bell captain: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 190.
“If the guy don’t want”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 273.
“Mr.
Sinatra wanted a special”: Ibid., p. 272.
“when Frank saw Marilyn”: Ibid.
“scurrilous and unfounded”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 548.
“We need coffee”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 272.
“I did see Frank briefly”: Kelley, His Way, p. 329.
Woodfield said that Sinatra: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 290.
“I was in Lake Tahoe”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 549.
“she could have a crisis”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 272.
“Marilyn and Joe planned”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 549.
It’s most likely that he proposed: Wire photograph, July 26, 1962.
“She seemed to him”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 547.
“He felt that if she were”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 275.
“Yeah, Frank wanted to”: Ibid.
“She was a toy”: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, p. 405.
“Bobby Kennedy was the one”: Ibid., p. 415.
“people who had served”: Ibid., p. 417.
who had been the last: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 571.
“I’m shocked”: James Bacon, dispatch, Aug. 9, 1962.
Marilyn’s friend Inez Melson: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, p. 418; Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 311.
“Tell them,” DiMaggio said: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, p. 418.
Joe E. Lewis, a strangely: Nevada State Journal, June 23, 1962.
Yet though businessmen: Petersburg (Va.) Progress Index, Aug. 6, 1962.
“His liaison with Judith Campbell”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 344.
What’s more, though any: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 166.
“He handed me the camera”: United Press, Aug. 14, 1962.
It had been a “guy”: United Press, Aug. 15, 1962.
Three days later: Associated Press, Aug. 18, 1962.
who later settled: Associated Press, March 13, 1964.
“well over $1 million”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 166.
In Sanicola’s version: Freedland, All the Way, p. 299.
“I was seventeen then”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 22.
Suddenly stray: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, April 26, 1962.
“for two-fold purposes”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 169–70.
“While conducting inquiry”: Ibid., p. 167.
“The nature of [the call]”: Ibid.
On the final evening: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 193.
On a recording: Private recording of Aug. 25, 1962, 500 Club show.
