Frank

by James Kaplan

  18 “Frank Sinatra and Artie Shaw”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Feb. 26, 1954.

  19 “I’m a saloon singer”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

  20 “What does Ava”: Laura Lee, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

  CHAPTER 40

  1. Fred Zinnemann, who had won the Best Director Oscar, also said as much: “The picture never could have won these honors without Montgomery Clift. He was the heart of the whole movie” (United Press, March 26, 1954).

  SOURCE NOTES

  2 “an ocean’s roar”: Lyrics from “Day In, Day Out,” words by Johnny Mercer, music by Rube Bloom (New York: Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, 1939).

  3 “In working out”: Shaw, Entertainer, p. 27.

  4 “Just for the record”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 11, 1954.

  5 “Ava was sure”: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, March 15, 1954.

  6 “Frank Sinatra’s excuse”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

  7 “Frank Sinatra off to Italy”: Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, March 18, 1954.

  8 “Frank Sinatra, an intimate”: Wisconsin State Journal, March 16, 1954.

  9 “Sinatra’s participation”: Westbrook Pegler, syndicated column, March 16, 1954.

  10 “Willie Moretti”: Ibid.

  11 “Bring back that Oscar”: Kelley, His Way, p. 238.

  12 “To Daddy—all our love”: Ibid., p. 237.

  13 “After being exiled”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, March 23, 1954.

  14 “NEWCOMER IS HOT FAVORITE”: El Paso Herald-Post, March 24, 1954.

  15 “Tonight’s the night”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 25, 1954.

  16 “Nominees for the best”: Twenty-sixth Academy Awards broadcast, 1954.

  17 “A peculiar thing”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 185.

  18 “Unbelievable”: Twenty-sixth Academy Awards broadcast, 1954.

  19 “That’s it”: Kelley, His Way, p. 239.

  20 “I wanted to thank”: Hopper and Brough, Whole Truth and Nothing But, p. 47.

  21 “I ducked the party”: Shaw, Entertainer, p. 32.

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