Sinatra

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