by James Kaplan
“Frank and his entourage”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 194.
And the week—between: Variety, Aug. 29, 1962.
“It is the belief of”: Uniontown Morning Herald, Aug. 29, 1962.
“The 28-year-old association”: Variety, Sept. 18, 1962.
“I didn’t care for it”: Lewisohn, Tune In, p. 731.
Nancy Sinatra, wanting to give: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 150; Kelley, His Way, p. 333.
“I certainly didn’t approach”: Bud Yorkin, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
“Frank came and sat down”: Ibid.
“I was confused”: MacLaine, My Lucky Stars, p. 68.
“At 3:16 AM”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 170–71.
“I’ve waited twenty years”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 404.
“would be a bad musical marriage”: Ed O’Brien, Sinatra 101, p. 128.
But the truth of the matter: Will Friedwald, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2015.
“If I could put together”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 405.
“Frank Sinatra, on a fast visit”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 20, 1962.
“Using a double only”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 145.
The ability to grip: Winspur and Parry, The Musician’s Hand, pp. 77–80.
“I thought this might”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 327.
“Following his own acting”: Ibid.
“Every once in a rare”: Ibid.
“The picture is really fascinating”: Ringgold and McCarty, Films of Frank Sinatra, p. 187.
Frank’s daughter Nancy remembered: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 185.
“Dad flew in and met”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 95–96.
“I don’t know how”: Freedland, All the Way, p. 285.
“On the set”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 29, 1962.
“It was low-key”: Tony Bill, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
In the 1920s, it had been: Sengstock, That Toddlin’ Town, p. 144.
It was the kind of place: United Press, Feb. 12, 1961.
Giancana was a part owner: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 227.
some reports said as much: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 277.
“I was singing”: Ibid., p. 278.
“That Frank, he wants more”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 168.
In the meantime, more: Sheilah Graham, syndicated column, Nov. 2, 1962; Ed Sullivan, syndicated column, Dec. 5, 1962.
“Because a friend asked me”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 278.
“who himself owed Mooney”: Ibid.
and the showroom, in which: Don MacLean, syndicated column, Dec. 8, 1962.
“Lines snaked around”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, pp. 228–29.
But Giancana made his real money: Kelley, His Way, p. 296.
Matty Malneck, the composer: Marcucci, Where or When.
The two had become deeply: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 323.
“Baby, that’s a very good”: Kelley, His Way, p. 297.
On the third, just before: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 314.
FBI wiretaps later: Ibid., p. 298; Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 230.
“Good thing Peter”: Sheilah Graham, syndicated column, Dec. 11, 1962.
CHAPTER 19
“Do you remember me”: Server, Ava Gardner, pp. 404–5.
“Ava Gardner and Yves Montand”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Jan. 16, 1963.
“We stayed at a villa”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 406.
“The hospital didn’t disclose”: Associated Press, Jan. 21, 1963.
On February 3: Long Beach (Calif.) Independent Press-Telegram, Feb. 3, 1963.
On January 1: San Mateo (Calif.) Times, Jan. 1, 1963.
At the end of the first week: Parade, Dec. 9, 1962.
He’d come east: United Press, Feb. 11, 1963; Kelley, His Way, p. 309.
she had a disconcerting: Author interview with confidential source.
“She was a pisser”: MacLaine, My Lucky Stars, p. 85.
“I remember Dolly”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 73.
“For the [parents]”: New Castle (Del.) News, Feb. 11, 1963.
“I’ve never heard”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 120–21.
Frank had left the invitation: Kelley, His Way, pp. 309–10; also see Kaplan, Frank, pp. 23–24.
“My son is like me”: Kelley, His Way, p. 310.
“Everything happens to Frank”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 14, 1963.
“Ava Gardner has become”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 18, 1963.
“Ava Gardner, hair straight”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 20, 1963.
“Ava Gardner and Peter Duchin”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 25, 1963.
Frank junior says there were: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 170.
“as a kind of work therapy”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 261.
“on 35-millimeter”: Will Friedwald, in discussion with the author, July 2014.
“it was such an incredibly”: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 154.
“The Reprise version”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 328.
“the worst possible time”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 70.
“cute, smart, and funny”: Ibid., pp. 71–72.
“They shared a certain”: Ibid., pp. 73–74.
He was packed off: Ibid., p. 81.
“Until September 1958”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 322.
But that summer: Associated Press, July 30, 1962.
“If my son is going”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 9, 1962.
“He’s more of an actor”: Associated Press, Dec. 23, 1962.
a ghost band: Levinson, Dorsey, p. 309.
“Mike was absolutely”: Mo Ostin, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2012.
“I used to go to have”: Mike Shore, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2007.
“Sinatra said, ‘I don’t want’ ”: Ibid.
“PLAYBOY: Many explanations”: Playboy, Feb. 1963.
ABC’s cameras were: Cynthia Lowry, syndicated column, April 9, 1963.
“a little lecture in show biz”: Ibid.
“Before we get on”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vnDMyQcfo.
“Frank Sinatra sold”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, April 16, 1963.
“consolation prize”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 157.
And second, Betsy: Betsy Duncan Hammes, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
“I had some sugar cubes”: Ibid.
a new toy: Sun Lakes Aero Club, “Frank Sinatra and His Lear Jet N175FS,” www.sunlakesaeroclub.org/updates_web_data/081231/Sinatra.htm.
and a Hughes 269A: Jimmy Van Heusen, private memoir.
He had also just bought: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Dec. 11, 1962.
“Every time Frankie spits”: Associated Press, Jan. 10, 1962.
“If you approve one”: Ibid.
“not more than 35”: Ibid.
As Friedwald points out: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 260.
Bernhart had a soundtrack-recording: Ibid.
“They put a tiny turd”: Berg, Goldwyn, p. 473.
“Both RUDIN”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 181.
But after the FBI reviewed: Ibid., pp. 182–83.
“The Los Angeles Division”: Ibid., pp. 184–85.
“TO: SAC”: Ibid., p. 186.
“After going at top”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, May 1, 1963.
“HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS”: FBI file on Giancana.
Warner Bros. had offered: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, April 19, 1963.
“needs the power not”: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000736/bio.
“Sinatra, tanned and rested”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, June 14, 1963.
“Out for a good time”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide,
p. 154.
“She’s back, and I’m”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 282.
“It’s on. All the way”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 408.
“Ava had met the fierce”: Ibid., pp. 408–9.
“These creeps are going”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 282.
“We had a great time”: Kelley, His Way, p. 317.
“So when are you two”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 409.
the twenty-one-year-old sensation: Lowell (Mass.) Sun, June 9, 1963.
“got into the worst fight”: Kelley, His Way, p. 317.
Frank, being Frank: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, June 14, 1963.
Frank strove to please: Ibid.
“never liked women”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 226.
“Sam didn’t like her”: Kelley, His Way, p. 318.
“This was more than Frank”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 283.
“Buddy boy”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 410.
“Suddenly,” a witness recalled: Kelley, His Way, p. 318.
“that while GIANCANA”: FBI file on Giancana, CG 92-349.
“Why don’t you fucks”: Kelley, His Way, p. 316.
“We have learned”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 186–87.
“If Bobby Kennedy wants”: Kelley, His Way, p. 316.
But unknown to Giancana: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 496–97.
The grounds: the agency: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, pp. 321–22.
“SAD TALE”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 195.
“that the G-men were”: United Press, July 1, 1963.
“detailing every aspect”: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 322.
And the FBI car: United Press, July 16, 1963.
“[Redacted] furnished”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 187.
“much to the consternation”: Ibid.
On July 19: Oakland Tribune, July 19 and 21, 1963.
“Most of the time”: Life, Sept. 27, 1963.
Kitty Kelley writes: Kelley, His Way, p. 319.
Soon, in any case: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 322.
“[Redacted] advised”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 187–88.
“Sam came charging”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 319–20.
“Phyllis was pounding”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 202–3.
Someone called the police: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 188; Kelley, His Way, p. 320.
“I call it a wonderful”: Don Alpert, syndicated column, July 22, 1963.
The altercation in Chalet 50: “Edward A. Olsen,” University of Nevada Oral History Archive, http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/unohp/id/2517, p. 159.
CHAPTER 20
By early 1963: Bowen, Rough Mix, p. 86.
“I finally went to Frank”: Mo Ostin, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2012.
“Giving up on Reprise”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 52.
“It was a gamble”: Ibid., p. 51.
And the label’s roster: Ibid.
Dean Martin was down: Bowen, Rough Mix, p. 86.
the man who had first brought: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 214.
Burke would also work: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 51.
Nitzsche had a Top 10: Van Nuys (Calif.) News, Aug. 16, 1963.
And then there was: http://www.allmusic.com/album/trini-lopez-at-pjs-mw0000591232.
“It was a huge picture”: Ostin, discussion.
“Because Mickey knew”: Ibid.
“Draft one of the deal”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 52.
“A startled Ostin”: Ibid., p. 53.
“Mickey, it was known”: Ibid.
“That turned out to be”: Ibid., p. 132.
“Selling his two-thirds”: Ibid., pp. 53–54.
“SINATRA NAMED WB”: Variety, Aug. 7, 1963.
He carried it around: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 204.
“This is what I call”: Kelley, His Way, p. 324.
“Jack went crazy”: Ibid., pp. 324–25.
“Since there has been”: Ibid., p. 325.
On the advice: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 196.
“Everybody had a short”: Olsen oral history.
As a result of a childhood: Ibid.
“We interviewed him”: Ibid.
Frank sat ringside: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Aug. 16, 1963.
“I’m so nervous”: Life, Aug. 23, 1963.
The place was packed: United Press, Aug. 9, 1963; Variety, Aug. 14, 1963.
“It’s obviously good”: Variety, Aug. 14, 1963.
“I’m very proud”: United Press, Aug. 9, 1963.
“he had charge accounts”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 207.
“That huge seashore”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, July 14, 1963.
“The new Sinatra sound”: Life, Aug. 23, 1963.
“red-carpet treatment”: United Press, Aug. 30, 1963.
“Sinatra’s attorney, a very charming”: Olsen oral history.
“There’s no truth”: Kelley, His Way, p. 321.
“conducted very”: United Press, Aug. 30, 1963.
“Hancock opened the conversation”: Olsen oral history.
Grandly, Sinatra suggested: Ibid.
“To describe him”: Ibid.
“Throw the dirty”: Ibid.
“Here’s one for each”: Ibid.
“Skinny tried to grease”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 199.
“Well, that was just”: Olsen oral history.
“This was the last thing”: Ibid.
On Thursday night: Marcucci, Where or When.
Twelve reels of tape: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, p. 113.
Jackie Gleason was there: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 13, 1963; Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 207.
“He is handicapped”: Variety, Sept. 11, 1963.
“I spoke to Dad”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 321.
“sojourned to Chalet No. 50”: Ibid.
“all hell broke loose”: Olsen oral history.
“Italian-Americans Make”: George E. Sokolsky, syndicated column, July 22, 1959.
“Trouble, trouble”: Arizona Republic, Sept. 12, 1963.
“Sinatra has 15 days”: Associated Press, Sept. 12, 1963.
“Sinatra being the national”: Olsen oral history.
“If I’m ever roasted”: Ibid.
“I cannot think of any”: Kelley, His Way, p. 322.
“I’m going to kick”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 322.
“the great uplifter”: Ibid., pp. 322–23.
“Anybody want to buy”: Kelley, His Way, p. 323.
“There are legal brains”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 18, 1963.
“What the local gambling”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 323.
“I don’t think it should”: Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 18, 1963.
At the end of September: Associated Press, Sept. 30, 1963.
“Aren’t you people being”: Olsen oral history.
“Now, that’s about the highest”: Ibid.
The lawyer later told Nancy: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 168.
He had come well prepared: Olsen oral history.
In the midst of the proceedings: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 168.
“because the investigation was”: Ibid.
“not only as an entertainer”: Ibid.
“Even this enforced”: Variety, Oct. 9, 1963.
In the case of his 50 percent: Ibid.
“his dream, Cal-Neva”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 176.
“That fucker shouldn’t”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 201.
“called Ed Olsen a cripple”: Kelley, His Way, p. 323.
“That bastard”: Ibid., p. 327.
“Mr. S never met”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 204.
“And Davis looks at me”: Olsen oral history.
“The press, of course, had”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 168.
Kelly, whose phone wasn’t: Ibid., p. 156.
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p; “The reason isn’t too hard”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Oct. 21, 1963.
“I wasn’t making any decisions”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 329.
the three-picture deal: Louis Sobol, syndicated column, Nov. 24, 1963.
Dean played Robbo’s: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 157.
Production began on Halloween: Ibid., p. 158.
then shifted to the busy: Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, Nov. 16, 1963.
The only hint of tension: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 158.
On his audio commentary: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 347.
Her father was stunned: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 178.
“Let’s shoot this thing”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 171.
Gordon Douglas shot nine: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 259.
“Casino execs reported”: Variety, Nov. 27, 1963.
Sinatra and George Jacobs retreated: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 178.
“he holed up”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 205.
“Frank was pretty broken up”: Kelley, His Way, p. 328.
The Hollywood trade papers: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 158.
Nancy senior did: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 97.
“Thanksgiving was a jovial”: Ibid.
As a student: Dean Torrence, in discussion with the author, July 2013.
By age twenty-one: “205: Plan B,” This American Life, www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/205/transcript.
“Not here”: Wilson, Sinatra, pp. 200–201; Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 297–98.
He left not realizing: “205: Plan B.”
“Good Lord, Rona”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 299.
“I got no comment”: Ibid., pp. 299–300.
along with Mickey Rudin: Ibid., p. 300.
Both men said: United Press, Dec. 11, 1963.
“Please. Don’t do”: Ibid.
The pair were presumed: Associated Press, Dec. 9, 1963.
“Sinatra is ready”: Nevada State Journal, Dec. 11, 1963.
Many years later: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 293.
“God talked to me”: “205: Plan B.”
He also planned to tithe: Torrence, discussion.
“Since I was going to have”: “205: Plan B.”
“And just imagining”: Ibid.
“It would bring father”: Ibid.
“No. Fuck you”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 303–4.
“He asked me if I’d turned”: Torrence, discussion.
Barry Keenan and Joe Amsler: Ibid.
