by James Kaplan
O’Brien, Daniel, 4.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1
O’Brien, Ed, 5.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 26.1
Ocean’s 11 (film), 1.1, 4.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 16.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Las Vegas premiere of
remakes of
O’Connor, Donald
Odd Couple, The (Simon)
Odd Couple, The (TV show/film), theme from
“Ode to the Inauguration” (parody medley), 15.1, 15.2
Odets, Clifford
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Ogerman, Claus, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 26.1
O’Hara, John
O’Hara, Quinn
Ohio National Guard
“Oh! Look at Me Now” (song), 3.1, 8.1, 15.1, 22.1
“Oh! My Papa” (song)
“Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (song), 19.1, 19.2
Okinawa
Oklahoma! (film), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Okrent, Daniel
Okrent, John
Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (album), 27.1, bm1.1
Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (TV special), bm1.1, bm1.2
“Old Devil Moon” (song), 2.1, 19.1
Oliver, Bob
Oliver, Melvin “Sy,” 1.1, 5.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
Olivier, Laurence, 15.1, 15.2
“Ol’ Man River” (song), 3.1, 17.1, 19.1, 24.1, 28.1
Olsen, Edward, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6
Claiborne’s cross-examining of
Sinatra’s threats to, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6
Olsen, Leo
Olson, Nancy
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (musical)
“On an Evening in Roma” (song)
“Once I Loved” (“O Amor em Paz”; song)
“Once upon a Time” (song)
O’Neal, Ryan
O’Neil, Paul
Rat Pack article of
“One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)” (song), 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
One Million Years B.C. (film)
“One Note Samba” (song)
“One O’Clock Jump” (instrumental)
Only Game in Town, The (film)
Only the Lonely (album), see Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
“Only the Lonely” (song), 9.1, 9.2, 17.1
On the Beach (film), 11.1, 12.1, 15.1
“On the Road to Mandalay” (song), 8.1, 8.2, 16.1
On the Town (film)
On the Waterfront (film)
Operation Mongoose, 15.1, 17.1
Oppedisano, Tony, bm1.1, bm1.2
Ordóñez, Antonio
organized crime, see Mob
Original Amateur Hour (TV show)
Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy
Orr, Robin
Ortolani, Riziero
Osborne, Richard
Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscars, see Academy Awards
Osmonds, the
Ostin, Mo, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1, 28.1
background of
and founding of Reprise
inaugural-gala LP and
at Reprise, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2
and sale of Reprise
at Verve, 14.1, 14.2
at Warner-Reprise, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 24.1, 26.1, 26.2
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1
Our Gang series
Our Miss Brooks (TV show)
Our Town (TV special), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Our Town (Wilder), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
“Our Town” (song)
“Out of Nowhere” (song)
Oxnard (Calif.) Press-Courier
Paar, Jack, 14.1, 22.1
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Pagliai, Bruno
“Paint It Black” (song)
Paint Your Wagon (musical)
Pajama Game, The (Broadway show)
Pakula, Alan
Palance, Jack
Paley, William S., 6.1, 22.1
Pal Joey (film), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 17.1, 19.1
Palladino, John
Palm Desert
Palm Springs, Calif., Sinatra’s compound at, 4.1, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1, 26.1
Palm Springs Desert Hospital, Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center at
Palm Springs Racquet Club, 26.1, 26.2
Pan, Hermes, 7.1, 12.1
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (film)
Pantages Theater, 3.1, 5.1
Papa’s Delicate Condition (movie)
“Paperback Writer” (song)
Paramount Pictures, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 18.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Paramount Theater (New York), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Paris, Sinatra’s concerts in
Park, Jacqueline, 20.1, 21.1
Parker, Charlie
Parker, Colonel Tom, 13.1, 14.1
Parker, Sol
Parker, Stanley
Parker, William
Park Lake Enterprises, Inc., 16.1, 18.1
Nevada Gaming Control Board’s formal complaint against, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
Parks, C. Carson
Parks, Van Dyke
Parsons, Louella, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2
and breakup of Bacall-Sinatra affair
Nancy B. Sinatra and
Sinatra, Jr. and
Party, The (TV show)
Patinkin, Mandy
Patriarca, Raymond
Patrick, John
Patton (film)
Paul, Pope
Payn, Graham
Payne, Sonny, 18.1, 22.1
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
Pearl, Ralph
Pearlman, Irving
Pearson, Drew, 14.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3
Peck, Gregory, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, bm1.1, bm1.2
Pegler, Westbrook, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 20.1
Peña, Ralph
Penn, Arthur, 17.1, 25.1
“Pennies from Heaven” (song), 18.1, 27.1, 28.1
“Perdido” (song)
Performing Arts Research Center at the New York Public Library
Perkins, Anthony, 11.1, 11.2
Perlberg, Bill
Perón, Eva
Perón, Isabel
Perón, Juan
Perrella, Robert
Perrine, Jimmy Jaye
Perry Como Show, The (TV show)
Person to Person (TV show), 6.1, 6.2
Peter Gunn (TV show)
Peterson, Oscar, 2.1, 14.1, 14.2
Peterson, Verita, 4.1, 9.1
Peterson, Virgil
Peyton Place (TV show), 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2
Philadelphia Story, The (film), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Philbin, Regis
Phillips, Michelle
Photoplay
“Pick Yourself Up” (song)
Picnic (Inge)
Pidgeon, Walter
Pied Pipers, 2.1, 11.1, 16.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2
Pilat, Oliver
Pink Panther (film)
Pink Panther, The (film)
Pink Tights (film), 1.1, 1.2, 21.1
Pitt, Brad
Playboy, 7.1, 22.1
Shore’s fictional Sinatra interview written for, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
Playhouse 5.1 (TV show), 17.1
Please Please Me (album), 19.1, 21.1
“Please Please Me” (song)
Pocketful of Miracles (film)
“Pocketful of Miracles” (song)
Podell, Jules, 4.1, 9.1, 13.1
Point of No Return (album)
Poitier, Sidney
Polanski, Roman, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Polk, Louis
“Polk
a Dots and Moonbeams” (song), 3.1, 15.1
Polo Grounds
Polo Lounge (Beverly Hills), 23.1, 23.2, 26.1
Ponedel, Bernard “Beans,” 6.1, 10.1
“Poor People of Paris, The” (song)
Porcino, Al, 16.1, 24.1
“Port au Prince” (instrumental)
Porter, Cole, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 19.1, 24.1
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth)
“Ports of Call” (“Escales”)
Powell, Benny
Powell, Dick
Powers, Dave, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1
Power, Tyrone
Prado, Pérez
Prado Museum
Preminger, Otto, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 25.1, 27.1
Presley, Elvis, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1
on Sinatra’s dislike of rock ’n’ roll
as guest on Sinatra’s Timex show, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
press:
on Sinatra
Sinatra-Farrow affair and, 22.1, 22.2
Sinatra’s relations with, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 22.1, 23.1, 25.1, 27.1, bm1.1
Pressman, Joel
“Pretty Colors” (song)
Previn, André, 5.1, 26.1
Price, Vincent
Pride and the Passion, The (film), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 23.1
Pride of the Family, The (TV show), 1.1, 1.2
Prima, Louis, 9.1, 10.1, 15.1
Principal, Victoria
“Private World and Thoughts of Frank Sinatra, The” (Life photo story)
Production Code
Profaci, Joe
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy)
Provine, Dorothy, Sinatra’s affair with, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Prowse, Juliet, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1, 24.1
career as important to, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
Goldstone’s relationship with
Sinatra’s affair with, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1
Sinatra’s breakup with
Sinatra’s engagement to, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1
Pryor, Thomas M.
“P.S. I Love You” (song), 5.1, 7.1
Psycho (film)
Pucci, Ed
Puccini, Giacomo, 7.1, 16.1
Puccini (restaurant), 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 16.1
“Put the Blame on Mame” (song)
Putnam, Bill
Putnam (publisher)
Puzo, Mario
Sinatra’s confrontation with
Quiet Man, The (film)
“Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars” (“Corcovado”; song), 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Quinlan, John
Quinn, Anthony
Quonset hut casino, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
race riots
racism, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 11.1
black musicians and
Racquet Club, Palm Springs, 12.1, 12.2
Radio City Music Hall, 6.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Radio Luxembourg
Radziwill, Lee
Raffell, Don
Raft, George, 13.1, 23.1
Raggio, William
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1
Ramone, Phil
Rand, Jess
Randazzo, Teddy, 25.1, 26.1
Random House, 22.1, 26.1
Rangel, Charles
Raposo, Joe, 27.1, bm1.1
Rappleye, Charles
Raskin, Hyman
Raskin, Milt
Rat Pack, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
beginnings of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
in Europe
Hollywood criticism of
Life article on
movies of, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
as myth, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1
Rat Pack (Bogart’s), 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1
Rat Pack Confidential (Levy)
Ravel, Maurice, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1, 19.1, 24.1, 25.1
Ray, Nicholas
Rayburn, Sam, 6.1, 14.1, 24.1
Razaf, Andy
RCA, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
“Ready, Willing, and Able” (song)
Reagan, Nancy, 23.1, 28.1, 28.2, bm1.1
Sinatra’s relationship with
Reagan, Ronald, 12.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 25.2, 28.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
presidential inauguration of
Sinatra at second gubernatorial inauguration of
Sinatra’s campaigning for, 27.1, 27.2, bm1.1
Sinatra’s dislike of
“Real Frank Sinatra Story, The” (newspaper series; Kilgallen), 5.1, 5.2
Reardon, Frank
Red Norvo Quintet, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 14.1
“Red Roses for a Blue Lady” (song)
Reed, Rex
Regan, Edwin
Reginelli, Marco
rehearsals:
Martin’s hatred of
Sinatra’s hatred of, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 17.1, 20.1, 22.1
Reiner, Carl
Reinhardt, Django
“Remember” (song)
Remick, Lee, 18.1, 24.1
Sinatra’s affair with
Remick (music publisher)
Reprise Records, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 24.1, 27.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
financial difficulties of, 18.1, 20.1
founding of, 14.1, 14.2
inaugural-gala LP of
Livingston’s attempted sinking of
Sinatra’s loss of interest in
Warner’s acquisition of
Reprise Repertory Theatre, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
Reston, James
Reynolds, Debbie, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 10.1, 18.1
Reynolds, Dick
Ribicoff, Abraham
Ricca, Paul “the Waiter,” 9.1, 10.1, 14.1
Rich, Buddy
Richards, Emil, 17.1, 17.2, 21.1
Richards, Keith
Ricketts, Al
Rickles, Don, 13.1, 20.1, 24.1, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Sinatra’s relationship with
Rickles, Etta
Ridder, Walter T.
Riddle, Doreen, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Riddle, Nelson, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 25.1, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 28.2, bm1.1
Capitol contract of, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2
depressions of, 9.1, 14.1
insecurity of, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 14.1, 19.1, 19.2
Jenkins compared with, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, 22.1, 22.2
JFK inaugural and, 15.1, 15.2
Mancini envied by
on Sinatra-Gardner relationship
Sinatra’s break with
and Sinatra’s Capitol albums, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1
Sinatra’s relationship with, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 14.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 28.1
and Sinatra’s Reprise albums, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 25.1
Tommy Dorsey’s relationship with
Ride, Vaquero! (film)
Ring-a-Ding Ding (album), 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
“Ring-a-Ding Ding” (song)
Rio Bravo (film)
Rishikesh, India, Mahesh ashram at, 25.1, 25.2
Ritter, Thelma
Rive Gauche
Rivers, Mavis, 15.1, 18.1
Riviera (casino)<
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Riviera hotel, Havana
Rizzo, Ermenegildo “Jilly,” 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1
background of
Barbara Sinatra and
death of
houseboat of
Sinatra’s first meeting of
as Sinatra’s friend and bodyguard, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1, 28.2, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
Rizzo, Sorrel “Honey” King, 16.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2
Rizzo, Joey
RKO Pictures
RKO Studios, 4.1, 11.1
Roach, Hal
Roach, Maria
Roach, Max
Road to Hong Kong, The (film), 16.1, 16.2
Roaring 20’s, The (TV show)
Robb, Inez
Robbins, Ralph
Roberts, George, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1, 21.1
Roberts, Ken
Roberts, Ralph, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Robeson, Paul
Robin, Tina
Robin and the 7 Hoods (film), 2.1, 17.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1
Sinatra as star and producer of
Robinson, Edward G., 10.1, 14.1, 16.1, 20.1, 23.1
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Robinson-Patman Act
Robson, Mark
Rochlen, Kendis
“Rock Around the Clock” (song)
Rockefeller, Nelson
rock ’n’ roll, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 22.1
Sinatra’s dislike of, 8.1, 13.1
Rocky Fortune (radio show)
Rodgers, Richard, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 24.1
Roemer, William F., Jr., 14.1, 19.1, 19.2
Rogers, Henry
Rogers, Shorty, 4.1, 18.1
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2
“Roll over Beethoven” (song)
Roma (yacht), 26.1, 26.2
Romanoff, Gloria, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Romanoff, Michael, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 21.1, 22.1, 24.1, 26.1, bm1.1
Romanoff’s (Beverly Hills), 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2
Romanoff’s (Palm Springs), 9.1, 12.1
Romão, Dom Um
Rome, 1.1, 3.1, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2
Romero, Cesar
Ronell, Ann
Room at the Top (film)
Rooney, Mickey, 1.1, 23.1
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
Roosevelt, James
Root, Gladys Towles, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Rose, Billy, 5.1, 14.1
Rose, Frank
Rose, Jack
Rosemary’s Baby (film), 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 24.8, 24.9, 25.1
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin)