by James Kaplan
Rosen, A.
Rosenberg, Aaron, 24.1, 25.1
Ross, Don
Ross, Dorothy
Ross, Jane
Ross, Steve
Rosselli, Johnny, 9.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1
in Castro assassination plot
FBI investigation of
FBI surveillance of
Sinatra and
Rossellini, Roberto
Roth, Eleanor
Roth, Philip
Route 4.1 (TV show), 14.1
Rowan, Dan, 15.1, 23.1
Rowan and Martin
Rowlands, Gena, 24.1, 24.2
Royal Festival Hall, Sinatra’s benefit performances at, 27.1, 27.2
Ruark, Robert
Rubenstein, Irwin “Ruby,”
Rubirosa, Odile, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Rubirosa, Porfirio, 3.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2
Ruby’s Dunes (restaurant)
Rudin, Milton “Mickey,” 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 27.2, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4
character of
Farrow divorce and, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3
film cameos of, 20.1, 24.1
and founding of Reprise
Nevada Gaming Control Board and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
and sale of Reprise, 20.1, 20.2
and Sinatra’s aborted Verve deal, 14.1, 14.2
and Sinatra’s Capitol suit
Ruditsky, Barney, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1
Rugolo, Pete
Runswick, Daryl
Runyon, Damon, 3.1, 20.1
Ruser, Billy
Rush, Barbara
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Jane
Russell, Leon
Russell, Rosalind, 13.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 26.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Russia
Rustic Cabin (restaurant), 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
Rutland, Marshall
Ruttenberg, Joseph
Ryan, Paul
Sacks, Emanuel “Manie,” 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
death of, 9.1, 9.2
Sinatra’s relationship with
Safire, William
Saga (music-publishing company)
Sahara (casino)
Sahl, Mort, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Saint, Eva Marie
“St. Francis of Hoboken” (Okrent)
St. James Theater
St. John, Jill, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
Sinatra’s affair with
St. Louis Woman (film)
St. Regis (hotel)
Sale, Richard
Salerno, Ralph
Salinger, Conrad
Salinger, Pierre, 12.1, 16.1, 18.1, 20.1
Salt and Pepper (film)
“Same Old Saturday Night” (song)
San Bernardino, Calif.
Sanchez, Baby
Sandburg, Carl
Sands (music-publishing company)
Sands, Tommy, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1
breakup of Nancy’s marriage to, 22.1, 22.2
Nancy’s marriage to, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1
in None But the Brave, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
Sands Hotel and Casino, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2
Bishop’s appearances at
Cohen as casino manager of
Copa Room of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2
Davis’s appearances at, 13.1, 16.1
design of
Hughes’s purchase of, 24.1, 24.2
Judy Garland’s appearance at
Martin’s appearances at, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Mob control of, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
Sinatra’s exclusive contract with, 8.1, 9.1
Sinatra’s appearances at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1
Sinatra’s credit cut off by, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Sinatra’s last weekend at
Sinatra’s ownership stake in, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 24.1
Summit shows at, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2
San Fernando Valley, 5.1, 6.1
“San Fernando Valley” (song)
Sanicola, Henry W. “Hank,” 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.6, 21.1
San Mateo Times
Santana (sailboat)
Santangelo, Alfred
Santopietro, Tom, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 24.1
Sarmento, William E.
Saroyan, William
Sassoon, Vidal
Saturday Evening Post
“Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)” (song)
Saturday Review
Saunders, Frank, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Sawyer, Grant, 13.1, 20.1, 20.2
Saxony Hotel
Sayers, Scott P., Jr.
Schaefer, Hal, 2.1, 2.2
Schary, Dore
Schenck, Joseph
Scheuer, Philip K.
Schirra, Wally
Schlatter, George, 27.1, bm1.1
Schlesinger, Arthur M., 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2
Schulman, Arnold
Schumach, Murray, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Schwartz, Arthur
Schwartz, Danny, 25.1, 27.1
Schwartz, David
Schwartz, Jonathan, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 21.1, 22.1, bm1.1
Schwartz, Natalie
Schweitzer, Albert
Scorsese, Martin, 9.1, bm1.1
Scott, George C., 21.1, 21.2, bm1.1
Scott, Joe
Scott, John L.
Scott, Vernon, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 25.1, 27.1, 27.2
Searchers, The (film)
Sebring, Jay
“Second Time Around, The” (song), 14.1, 19.1
Secret Ceremony (film), 25.1, 25.2
“Secret Love” (song), 2.1, 21.1
see It Now (TV show)
Selleck, Tom
Sellers, Peter, 21.1, 25.1, 25.2
Senate, U.S.
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of, 4.1, 11.1
Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Kefauver Committee) of, 6.1, 9.1, 13.1, 25.1
Senate Rackets Committee (McClellan Committee), 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1
Giancana’s appearance at
“Send in the Clowns” (song)
Seniceros, Lorenzo Holguin
“Sentimental Journey” (song)
September of My Years, The (album), 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
“September of My Years, The” (song)
“September Song” (song), 15.1, 22.1
Sergeants 3 (film), 8.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
Rat Pack in
reviews of
Serling, Rod
Server, Lee, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 15.1, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1, bm1.1
Sesame Street (TV show)
Sevano, Nick, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1
Seven Year Itch, The (film), 2.1, 16.1
Severed Head, The (film)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)
“Shadow of Your Smile, The” (song), 23.1, 23.2
“Shake Down the Stars” (song)
Shank, Bud
Shanley, J. P.
SHARE Boomtown show, 11.1, 13.1
Sharif, Omar, 24.1, 25.1
Sharp, Sid
Shavelson, Melville
Shaw, Arnold, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 15.1, 18.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1
“Sh-Boo
m” (song)
Shearer, Lloyd
Shearing, George
Shea Stadium, Beatles concert at
Sheed, Wilfrid
“She Loves You” (song), 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Shepard, Alan, 28.1, 28.2
Sheridan, Tony
Sherman, Norman
Sherry-Netherland Hotel, 3.1, 4.1
Sherry’s (nightclub)
“She’s Funny That Way” (song)
She Shot Me Down (album)
“She’s Leaving Home” (song)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (film)
Shirelles
Shor, Toots, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1, 15.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1
Shore, Dinah, 6.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
Shore, Merle
Shore, Mike, 15.1, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1
fictional Sinatra Playboy interview written by, 19.1, 19.2
Shorty Rogers and His Giants
Show Boat (film), 1.1, 19.1
Show Boat (musical)
Show Business Illustrated, 15.1, 19.1, 22.1
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 14.1, 15.1, 22.1
Shriver, Sargent
Shure, Paul
Shuster, Alvin
Shute, Nevil
Sickel, Norman
“Side by Side” (song)
Sidney, George, 7.1, 17.1
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 9.1, 9.2
Siegel, Sol C., 5.1, 10.1
Sigman, Carl
Silva, Henry, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1
Silvani, Al, 13.1, 22.1
“Silver Bell Waltz, The” (Hopkins)
Silver Chalice, The (film)
Silvers, Dolores Vicki
Silvers, Phil, 7.1, 19.1, 28.1
Silver Slipper (casino)
Simmons, Ed, 10.1, 18.1
Simmons, Jean
Simms, Ginny
Simon, Neil, 18.1, 18.2
Simon, Paul
Simon & Garfunkel, 23.1, 26.1
Sinatra, Anthony Martin “Marty,” 5.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2
anniversary party of
death of
Sinatra, Barbara Marx, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4
Beverly Hills house of Sinatra and
divorce of
Graydon and
memoir of, see Lady Blue Eyes
Oliver’s marriage to
prenuptial agreement signed by
Rizzo and
Sinatra’s affair with, 28.1, bm1.1
Sinatra’s first meetings with
Sinatra’s marriage to, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4, bm1.5
Tina on, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
Zeppo Marx’s marriage to, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, bm1.1
Sinatra, Christina “Tina,” 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
on Barbara Marx Sinatra, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4
on Frank Jr.
on Frank Jr. kidnapping, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 21.1
on Gardner’s death
on grandparents
on Mia Farrow
Parsons and
on Sinatra-JFK relationship, 17.1, 17.2
and Sinatra’s death, bm1.1, bm1.2
on Sinatra’s emotional remoteness, 2.1, bm1.1
on Sinatra’s firing of Maltz
and Sinatra’s marriage to Farrow, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
on Sinatra’s Mob connections, 9.1, 14.1, 25.1, bm1.1
on Sinatra’s political activism
Sinatra’s relationship with
sole recording of
Wagner and
Sinatra, Francis Albert “Frank,” 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4
Academy Awards hosted by
acting skill of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, 18.1, 18.2
acute diverticulitis attack of
as afraid of heights
aggression of
apologizing as difficult for, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2
appearance of
arrogance of, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1, 14.1, 15.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 25.1, bm1.1
artifice as lacking in
Beverly Hills pied-à-terre of
business interests of, 15.1, 16.1, bm1.1; see also Cal-Neva Lodge; Sands Hotel and Casino
canceled Far East tour of
children’s charities tour of, 17.1, 17.2
Coldwater Canyon house of, 5.1, 6.1
commercial power of, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2
concert touring by, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 18.1, 24.1, 28.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4, bm1.5, bm1.6
creative control exercised by, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 23.1
drinking by, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 27.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3, bm1.4
emotional remoteness of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 24.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
entourage of, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1, 27.2
as father
fiftieth birthday of, 22.1, 22.2
finances of
fortieth birthday of
forty-second birthday party of
funerals feared by
gambling by, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 27.1
gangster image of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
generosity of, 1.1, 5.1, 22.1
hair loss of, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 28.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
hand surgery of, 18.1, 27.1, 27.2
heart attacks of
Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar given to
hospitals feared by
humiliation of, as hot button, 11.1, 15.1, 18.1, 24.1, bm1.1
impatience of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 6.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 26.1
insecurities of, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, bm1.1
lavish spending by, 8.1, 14.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
liberalism of, 2.1, 5.1, 11.1
loneliness of, 4.1, 19.1
loyalty demanded by
memory failure of, bm1.1, bm1.2
Mob and
money problems of
on mother
musical style of, 12.1, 12.2
in near drowning, 21.1, 21.2
New Jersey subpoena of, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2
1954 career comeback of, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1
1973 comeback of, bm1.1, bm1.2
on-stage collapses of, bm1.1, bm1.2
perfectionism of, 8.1, 13.1, 14.1, 17.1
pneumonia of
political influence desired by
promiscuity of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 19.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 25.1
racial slurs used by, 11.1, 16.1, 24.1, 27.1
rehearsing disliked by, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 17.1, 20.1, 22.1
Reprise masters owned by
restlessness of, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 27.1
retirement announced by
self-contempt of, 15.1, 22.1
self-destructiveness of
self-righteousness of
sense of humor of, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1
on singing technique
smoking by, 7.1, 10.1, 25.1, 27.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
social ambitions of, 26.1, 26.2, bm1.1
stage patter of, 8.1, 8.2
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suicide attempts of, 1.1, 12.1, 15.1, 25.1
travel disliked by
as uncomfortable expressing gratitude
unpredictability of, 7.1, 9.1
unpublicized philanthropy of
vindictiveness of, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1
violent temper of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
vision problems of, bm1.1, bm1.2
vocal problems of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, bm1.1
voice of, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1
wealth of, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 19.1, 22.1
weight gain by, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
on women and marriage
Sinatra, Francis Wayne “Frank Jr.,” 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1
Americana Hotel show of, 20.1, 20.2
boarding school attended by
on Ed Sullivan Show, 21.1, 21.2
European tour of, 21.1, 21.2
kidnapping supposedly planned by, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
at kidnapping trial, 21.1, 21.2
Las Vegas debut of
Parsons and
Sinatra’s relationship with, 19.1, 21.1
Tina on
Sinatra, Francis Wayne “Frank Jr.,” kidnapping of, 20.1, 22.1, 25.1
Amsler in, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
FBI and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1
Foss and, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1
Irwin in, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Keenan in, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
press and, 20.1, 22.1
publicity value of, 21.1, 21.2
Sinatra and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 21.1
as suspected hoax, 21.1, bm1.1
trial in
Sinatra in Hollywood (Santopietro)
Sinatra, Nancy Barbato (wife), 21.1, bm1.1
and kidnapping of Frank Jr., 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
Parsons and
Sinatra-Gardner relationship and, 2.1, 5.1
Sinatra’s 1976 liaison with
Sinatra’s divorce from, 9.1, 20.1
and Sinatra’s marriage to Farrow
Sinatra’s marriage to, 1.1, 7.1, 14.1, 17.1, 20.1
Sinatra’s relationship with, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2
Sinatra, Nancy Sandra (daughter), 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 10.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm1.3
breakup of Sands’s marriage to, 22.1, 22.2
dating by, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1
on Davis’s banning from JFK inaugural
on Farrow’s marriage to Sinatra, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1