by James Kaplan
Walk on the Wild Side (film)
Wallace, George
Wallace, Mike
Wallichs, Glenn, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
Wallis, Hal, 3.1, 13.1
Wall Street Journal, 25.1, 25.2
Walters, Charles, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1
Walters, Ed, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 26.1, 27.1
Walton, William
Waring, Fred
Warm Moods, The (album)
Warner, Jack, 2.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1
and Cal-Neva hearing
Reprise bought by
Warner Bros., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 23.1, 27.1, 27.2
Warner Bros. Records, 20.1, 24.1
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Warner-Reprise Records, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 24.1, 26.1, 26.2, bm1.1
Warren, Harry, 3.1, 22.1, 24.1
Warren Commission
Washington, D.C., racism in
Washington, Ned
Washington, Walter, 25.1, 25.2
Washington Post, 25.1, bm1.1
Washington Star
Wasserman, Lew, 1.1, 10.1
“Watch What Happens” (song)
Watergate scandal
Waterman, Sanford, 16.1, 18.1, 27.1, 27.2, bm1.1
Sinatra’s altercation with
“Waters of March” (“Águas de Março”; song)
Watertown (album), 26.1, 27.1
Watts riots
“Wave” (song)
Wayne, David
Wayne, John, 13.1, 16.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
Sinatra’s altercation with
Wayne, Mabel
“Way You Look Tonight, The” (song)
Webb, Jack
Webb, Jimmy, 25.1, 26.1
Webster, Ben, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1
Webster, Paul Francis
Weill, Kurt, 19.1, 22.1
Wein, George, 22.1, 22.2
Weinstein, Abe B.
Weintraub, Jerry
Weisman, Eliot
Weisman, Frederick, Sinatra’s attack on, 23.1, 26.1
Weiss, Irving “Sarge,” 18.1, 23.1
Weitman, Bob
Welch, Raquel, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3
“Well, Did You Evah?” (song)
“We’ll Be Together Again” (song)
Welles, Orson, 19.1, 26.1
Wellman, Lucille
“We Open in Venice” (song)
Wess, Frank
Westchester Premier Theater, bm1.1, bm1.2
Western Recorders, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, bm1.1
Western World
West Melbourne Stadium
Weston, Melissa
West Side Tennis Club
West Virginia, 1960 election in, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Westwood Village Memorial Park
Wham of Sam (album)
“Whatever Gets You Through the Night” (song)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
“What Is This Thing Called Love?” (song), 3.1, 3.2, 25.1
“What’ll I Do?” (song)
“What Now, My Love?” (song)
What’s My Line? (TV show), 7.1, 22.1, 24.1
“What’s New?” (song)
Wheeling, Ill., 18.1, 18.2
“When I Lost You” (song)
“When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love” (song)
“When No One Cares” (song)
“When the World Was Young” (song)
“When You’re Smiling” (song)
“When Your Lover Has Gone” (song), 3.1, 8.1
Where Are You? (album), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
“Where Are You?” (song)
“Where or When” (song), 10.1, 22.1, 23.1
Whisky a Go Go (discotheque), 21.1, 22.1, 24.1
White, Loray, Davis’s marriage to, 9.1, 9.2
White, Theodore H., 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 15.1
White House:
Advise and Consent luncheon at
Jacqueline Kennedy’s makeover of
Sinatra at, 25.1, 27.1
Whiting, George A.
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney, Nan, 10.1, 10.2
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
“Why Try to Change Me Now?” (song)
“Why We Fight” (propaganda films)
“Wichita Lineman” (song)
Widmark, Richard
Wiedrich, Robert
Wiefels, Howard
Wilder, Alec, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1, 17.1
Wilder, Billy, 2.1, 10.1, 18.1, 23.1, 27.1
Wilder, Thornton, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Wild One, The (film), 2.1, 3.1
William Morris Agency, 4.1, 13.1
Williams, Andy, 21.1, 23.1
Williams, Bob
Williams, Cootie
Williams, Esther
Williams, Joe
Williams, Paul Revere
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William B., 2.1, 20.1
Willis, John
Will Mastin Trio, 2.1, 2.2
“Willow Weep for Me” (song), 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
Wilson, Earl, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 26.1
Sinatra’s relationship with, 7.1, 7.2, 18.1, 25.1, 26.1
Wilson, Rosemary
Winchell, Walter, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 25.1
“Winchester Cathedral” (song), 23.1, 24.1
Wininger, Bo
Winona, Minn.
Winsten, Archer
Winters, Jonathan
Winters, Shelley
Wiseman, Thomas
“Witchcraft” (song), 7.1, 11.1, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1
Witherspoon, Jimmy
“With Every Breath I Take” (song), 5.1, 7.1
“Wives and Lovers,”
Wolf, Irvin
Wolf, Murray, 21.1, 21.2
Wolf, William
Wolfe, Thomas
Wonder, Stevie
Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim, The (album)
Wood, Natalie, 1.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Sinatra’s relationship with, 1.1, 22.1, 22.2, 25.1
Wagner’s marriage to, 9.1, 12.1, 27.1
Woodfield, William Read, 9.1, 18.1, 19.1
Woodstock (film)
World War II, 3.1, 6.1
World We Knew, The (album)
“World We Knew, The” (song), 24.1, 25.1
“Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” (song)
Wright, Bob
Writers Guild of America
Wrong-Door Raid, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 19.1
Sinatra and
WWDC
Wyman, Rosalind, 13.1, 17.1
Wynn, Keenan
Wynn, Ned
Yale Law School
Yankee Stadium
Yellen, Jack
“Yellow Days” (song)
“Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” (song)
“Yesterday” (song), 26.1, 27.1
“Yetta, I Can’t Forget Her” (song)
Yocum, Vern, 5.1, 24.1, bm1.1
Yorkin, Bud, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1
“You, My Love” (song), 2.1, 3.1
“You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me” (song)
“You Go to My Head” (song)
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” (song)
“You Make Me Feel So Young” (song), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 15.1, 22.1, 28.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
“You Never Had It So Good” (song)
Young, Lester, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1
Young, Nedrick
Young, Victor
Young at Heart (film), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 20.1
“Young at Heart” (song), 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 19.1, 19.2
Young Lions, The (film)
> Young Savages, The (film)
“You Really Got Me” (song)
“You’re a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith” (song)
“You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Loves You” (song)
“You’re the Top” (song)
Your Hit Parade (radio show), 2.1, 22.1
“Your Love for Me” (song)
Your Show of Shows (TV show), 8.1, 18.1
Zanuck, Darryl F., 20.1, 21.1, 21.2
Zanuck, Richard
Zarchy, Zeke
Zarowitz, Jerome, 27.1, 27.2
Zinnemann, Fred, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 25.1
Zwillman, Abner “Longy,”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Kaplan has been writing about people and ideas in business and popular culture, as well as notable fiction (The Best American Short Stories), for more than three decades. His essays and reviews, as well as more than a hundred major profiles, have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. His novels include Pearl’s Progress and Two Guys from Verona, a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. His nonfiction works include The Airport, You Cannot Be Serious (coauthored with John McEnroe), Dean & Me: A Love Story (with Jerry Lewis), and the first volume of his definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, Frank: The Voice. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.
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