by James Kaplan
Bennett, Tony, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 15.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
Sinatra on
Benny, Jack, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 19.1, 22.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Berg, A. Scott
Bergen, Polly
Bergman, Alan, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Bergman, Ingrid, 6.1, 17.1
Bergman, Marilyn, 13.1, 13.2
Berigan, Bunny
Berkshire Downs racetrack
Sinatra’s ownership stake in
Berle, Milton, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 22.1
Berlin, as Cold War hot spot, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Berlin, Irving, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 24.1, 26.1, bm1.1
Berman, Shelley
Bernhart, Milt, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 24.1
Bernstein, Elmer, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
Bernstein, Leonard, 7.1, 7.2, 15.1, 15.2
Berry, Chuck
Berry, Jan
Best, Pete
“Best Is Yet to Come, The” (song), 21.1, 21.2, bm1.1
Beverly Hills Hotel, 3.1, 4.1, 23.1, 23.2, 26.1
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (song)
Bey, Ilsa
Bhowani Junction (film)
Bible, The (film), 21.1, 21.2, 23.1
Big Brothers of America, Sinatra benefit for, 25.1, 25.2
Big Fat Brass (album)
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” (song)
Big Knife, The (film)
Bigley, Isabel
Big Sleep, The (film)
Bill, Tony, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2
Billboard, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 26.1
Billy Ruser’s
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 14.1, 14.2
Birdman of Alcatraz (film)
Birmingham, Ala.
Biroc, Joseph, 24.1, 25.1
“Birth of the Blues” (song)
Bishop, Joey, 4.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1
drinking avoided by
late-night talk show of
as master of ceremonies at inaugural gala, 15.1, 15.2
in Ocean’s 11, 13.1, 13.2
opening acts of, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 22.1
as Rat Pack member, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
in Sergeants 3, 16.1
Bisset, Jacqueline
Bittan, David B.
Black, Hugo L.
Black Book, 10.1, 12.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1
blacklist, 12.1, 13.1
Blackman, Joan
Black Orpheus (movie)
blacks, blackness
Sinatra’s identification with, 21.1, 21.2
Blackwell, Richard
Bladen, Barbara
Blaine, Hal
Blake, Eubie
Blakeley, Barbara, see Sinatra, Barbara Marx
“Blame It on My Youth” (song)
Blane, Ralph
Blasgen, Virginia
Bleyer, Archie
Blocker, Dan, 18.1, 25.1, 25.2
Blondell, Joan
Bloom, Rube
Bloomingdale, Mrs. Alfred
“Blow High, Blow Low” (song)
Blue Angel, 4.1, 6.1
Blue Hawaii (film), 6.1, 17.1
“Blue Lace” (song)
“Blue Prelude” (song)
“Blues in the Night” (song)
Bobbi home permanents, 1.1, 4.1
Bobby Tucker Singers
Bob Hope Desert Classic
“Body and Soul” (song), 5.1, 14.1
Bogart, Humphrey, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 18.1, 24.1
Bacall’s marriage to, 4.1, 8.1
cancer diagnosis of, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
death of, 7.1, 10.1
drinking by
Rat Pack of, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1
Sinatra’s admiration for
Verita Peterson’s affair with, 4.1, 9.1
Bogart, Stephen
Bogdanovich, Peter, 4.1, bm1.1
Boggs, Bill
Bohrod, Aaron, 4.1, 4.2
Boléro (Ravel)
Bolling, Tiffany, Sinatra’s affair with, 24.1, 24.2
Bonanno, Bill
Bonanno, Joseph, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 19.1
Bond, Ward, 12.1, 13.1
Bonfá, Luiz
“Bonita” (song)
Bonney, Nick
Bonnie and Clyde (film)
Bono
Boone, Pat
Booth, Fifi
Borgnine, Ernest, 5.1, 5.2
“Born Free” (song)
Borodin, Alexander
bossa nova
“Both Sides Now” (song)
Boulanger, Nadia
Bourke, George
Bowen, Jimmy, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2
Bowes, Major
“Boy From…, The” (song)
“Boy Next Door, The” (song)
“Boys’ Night Out, The” (song)
Brackett, Charles
Brackett, Eddie
Brando, Marlon, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 10.1
Sinatra’s dislike of
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film), 16.1, 21.1
Breen, Richard
Brel, Jacques, 26.1, 27.1
Brennan, William J.
Brent, Earl K., 9.1, 28.1
Brisson, Freddie, 21.1, 23.1, 26.1, 28.1
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Empire Cancer Campaign
Britt, May, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 20.1
Davis’s engagement and marriage to, 14.1, 14.2
Bronfman, Edgar M.
Bronson, Charles
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooks, Foster
Brooks Atkins Theatre
Broom, William
Brotherhood, The (film)
Brown, Edmund “Pat,” 12.1, 14.1, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1
in 1960 presidential race
Sinatra’s fund-raiser for, 23.1, 23.2
Brown, James
Brown, Les
Brown, Ray
Browning, Kirk
Browning, Norma Lee, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Brownstein, Ronald, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 17.1
Bruce, Lenny
Bruno, Angelo
Bruyère, Gaby
Brynner, Yul, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1, 20.1, 21.1, 26.1
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,”
Buchanan, Pat
Buchholz, Horst
Buchwald, Art
Buck Privates (film)
Buddy Rich Orchestra
Bunche, Ralph
“Bunny Hop, The” (song)
Buono, Victor
Burke, Johnny, 3.1, 5.1, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1, 18.1, 21.1
Burke, Sonny, 20.1, 21.1, 24.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Burnett, W. R.
Burns, George, 6.1, 17.1, 22.1
Burrell, Belinda
Burrows, Abe, 12.1, 19.1
Burton, Richard, 18.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Bushkin, Joe, 3.1, 5.1, 12.1
“But Beautiful” (song)
Butterfield 1.1 (film), 17.1
Byas, Don
Byers, Billy
Byron, James
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (song)
Caesar, Sid, 8.1, 18.1
Caesars Palace
Cal-Neva bought by
FBI raid on
federal investigation of
Nancy’s premiere at
Sinatra’s appearances at, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 27.2, bm1.1, bm1.2
Sinatra’s credit cut off by
Café de Paris (Fox commissary)
Cagney, James, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 22.1
Cahn, Sammy, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 25.1, 26.1
parodies written by, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1, 15.1, 18.1
, 22.1
on Sinatra, 4.1, 6.1, 26.1
at Sinatra’s 42nd birthday
as songwriter, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
Caifano, Marshall
Caine Mutiny, The (film)
Calamity Jane (film), 2.1, 21.1
Caldwell, Gayle
Calello, Charles, 26.1, 26.2
California Studios, 2.1, 4.1
Callas, Charlie
“Call Me Irresponsible” (song), 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Cal-Neva Lodge, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 27.1
Caesar’s purchase of
casino gaming license of
Celebrity Room at, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 20.1
Chalet 50 brawl at, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
finances of, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2
Giancana’s ownership stake in, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 20.1
Giancana’s visits to, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7
Joseph Kennedy’s ownership stake in, 10.1, 14.1
Martin’s ownership stake in
Nevada Gaming Control Board investigation of, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
renovation of
Sinatra’s ownership stake in, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Camarata, Tutti
Cambodia, bombing of
Camelot (musical)
Campbell, Glen, 12.1, 23.1, 25.1
Campbell, Judith, see Exner, Judith Campbell
Campbell, William
Canby, Vincent, 18.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3
Can-Can (Broadway musical)
Can-Can (film), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 21.1
Can-Can (soundtrack album)
“Can I Steal a Little Love?” (song), 7.1, 7.2
Cannon, Jimmy, 3.1, 7.1
Cannonball Run II (film)
Cano, Eddie
Cantor, Eddie
“Can’t Take My Eyes off You” (song)
“Can’t We Be Friends?” (song), 3.1, 3.2
Capital Times (Madison, Wis.)
Capitol Records, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1
Beatles and, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
EMI as parent company to, 5.1, 8.1, 18.1
new producer assigned to Sinatra by
Riddle as arranger at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1
Sinatra’s contract with, 1.1, 14.1, 15.1
Sinatra’s lawsuit against
Sinatra’s recordings for, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Sinatra’s renegotiated contract with, 5.1, 13.1
Sinatra’s unhappiness with, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 21.1
Capitol Records Tower, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1
Studio A of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Capitol Theater (New York)
Capone, Al, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 15.1, 15.2
Capote, Truman, 3.1, 5.1, 26.1
Black and White Ball of, 23.1, 23.2
Capra, Frank, 10.1, 19.1
“Caravan” (song)
Carbone, Anna
Carey, Macdonald
Carey, Michele
Carmen, Eric
Carmichael, Hoagy, 3.1, 22.1
Carnegie Hall:
Martin Luther King benefit at
Sinatra’s benefit for blind at
Caro, Robert A.
Caroline (JFK plane), 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Carousel (film), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 12.1, 19.1, 21.1
Carpenters, the
Carr, Vikki
Carra, Raffaella
Carroll, Diahann, 25.1, 25.2
Carroll, Harrison, 4.1, 23.1
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Jack
Casino (film)
casinos:
entertainers’ role in
Mob control of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 25.1
Cassavetes, John, 24.1, 24.2
Castaways (casino)
Cast a Giant Shadow (film)
Castellana Hilton
Castellano, Paul
Castle, William
Castro, Fidel, 1.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 18.1
CIA assassination plot against, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1, 24.1
Catch-22 (Heller), 27.1, 27.2
Catena, Jerry
Catholicism
“Cathy” (song)
Catlett, Buddy
Cavallo, Bob
Cavanaugh, Dave, 9.1, 13.1, 16.1, 17.1
CBS, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 22.1, 22.2
CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Celentano, Andy
Celeste (yacht)
Central Intelligence Agency, see CIA
Central States Pension Fund
Cerf, Bennett, 23.1, 23.2, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1
death of
Sinatra’s relationship with
Cerf, Christopher, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 27.1
Cerf, Phyllis, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 26.1, 26.2
Cernan, Gene
“C’est Magnifique” (Porter), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Chairman, The (film)
Champlin, Charles, 25.1, bm1.1
Chandler, Jeff
Chaney, Lon, Jr.
“Change Partners” (song), 24.1, 24.2
Chapin, Dwight
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin, Oona O’Neill
Chaplin, Saul
Charles, Ray, 21.1, 26.1, bm1.1
Charlie Spivak Orchestra
Chasen’s, 23.1, 24.1, 27.1, bm1.1
“Cheek to Cheek” (song)
Cheever, John
Chemical Bank
cherry bombs, Sinatra’s delight in throwing, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
Cheshire, Maxine, 25.1, 25.2, bm1.1
Chesterfield cigarettes
Chevalier, Maurice, 12.1, 12.2
Chez Paree
Chez Show, The (radio show)
Chiari, Walter, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Chicago, Ill., 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
1968 Democratic Convention in
Chicago Crime Commission
Chicago Outfit, 9.1, 14.1, 15.1
Chicago Police Department
Chicago Sun-Times, 8.1, 19.1
Chicago Tribune
Christina (plane), 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 20.1
Christina II (plane), 22.1, 22.2
“Christmas Song, The” (song)
“Christmas Waltz, The” (song)
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
FBI turf war with
in plot to assassinate Castro, 15.1, 17.1, 24.1
CinemaScope, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
CinemaScope 55
Circus Maximus, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, bm1.1
Ciro’s, 2.1, 21.1
City Center theater (New York)
City National Bank of Beverly Hills, 12.1, 18.1
civil rights, 2.1, 6.1, 14.1
Civil Rights Act (1957)
Claiborne, Harry
Clan, the, see Rat Pack
Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City, 12.1, 18.1
Clark, Blair, 13.1, 13.2
Clark, Charles Dismas
Clark, Mahlon
Clark, Petula, 23.1, 24.1
Clark, Wilbur
Clark County Gaming License Board
Clarke, Charles G.
Clarke, Donald
Clarke, Kenny
Clarke, P. J.
Claude Productions
Cleopatra
(film), 18.1, 21.1, 21.2
Clift, Montgomery, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1, 10.1
Clooney, George
Clooney, Rosemary, 2.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 14.1, 18.1, 19.1, 22.1
Close to You (album), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
“Close to You” (song), 6.1, 27.1, 27.2
Close to You and More (album)
Cobb, Buff
Cobb, Lee J., 7.1, 18.1
Coburn, James
Cocoanut Grove, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1, 16.1
Cohen, Carl, 9.1, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 27.1
Sinatra’s fight with, 24.1, 25.1
Cohn, Harry, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 14.1, 15.1
death of
Cohn, Joan
Cohn, Roy
Colbert, Claudette, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 26.1
Cole, Natalie, bm1.1, bm1.2
Cole, Nat King, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 23.1, 28.1
Coleman, Cy, 7.1, 11.1, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 24.1
Coleman, Ray
Colgate Comedy Hour, The (TV show), 4.1, 10.1, 12.1, 18.1
Colleran, Bill
Collette, Buddy
Collins, Judy
Collins, Michael
Collins, Victor, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
Collinson, Dennis
Colony (nightclub), 15.1, 19.1
Coltrane, John
Columbia Pictures, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 14.1
Columbia Records, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 14.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 22.1
Comden, Betty, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1
“Come Back to Me” (song)
Come Blow Your Horn (film), 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 22.1
Come Blow Your Horn (Simon)
Come Dance with Me! (album), 11.1, 14.1, 17.1, 24.1
“Come Dance with Me” (song)
Come Fly with Me (album), 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 17.1
“Come Fly with Me” (song), 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1, 21.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
“Come Running Back” (song)
Come Swing with Me! (album), 15.1, 16.1, 17.1
“Come Waltz with Me” (song)
“Comme d’habitude” (song)
Commodore (record label)
Communist Party, American
Communists, Communism
U.S. fear of, 12.1, 13.1
Community Property (film), see Marriage on the Rocks (film)
Como, Perry
Composer of Desafinado, Plays, The (album)
Compton, William
Concert Sinatra, The (album)
Condon, Richard, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1
Confidential, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1
Congress, U.S.
Congressional Record
Connecticut Yankee, A (film)
Connelly, Peggy, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1, 12.1, 21.1
Sinatra’s affair with, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2
Connolly, Mike
Conte, Richard, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 25.1
Cook County, Ill., 1960 election in, 14.1, 14.2
Cooper, Gary, 4.1, 15.1
Coots, Fred
Copacabana, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 17.1, 18.1
