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by J. Randy Taraborrelli


  Sinatra, Rosa (grandmother), ref1

  Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (TV special), ref1

  Sinatra 101—The 101 Best Recordings and the Stories Behind Them (album), ref1

  Sinatra and Strings (album), ref1

  Sinatra at the Sands (album), ref1

  Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (album), ref1

  Sinatra: Best of the Best (album), ref1

  Sinatra Christmas Album, The (album), ref1

  Sinatra Swings (album), ref1, ref2n

  Siravo, George, ref1

  Skelton, Georgia, ref1

  Skelton, Red, ref1, ref2

  “Sky Fell Down, The,” ref1

  Slatkin, Felix, ref1

  Smith, Gerald L. K., ref1

  Smith, Jean, ref1

  Smith, Keely, ref1, ref2

  Smith, Dr. William, ref1

  Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (film), ref1

  Softly, As I Leave You (album), ref1

  Some Came Running (film), ref1, ref2

  “Some Enchanted Evening,” ref1

  Some of Manie’s Friends (TV special), ref1

  “Something,” ref1

  Something’s Gotta Give (film), ref1

  “Somethin’ Stupid,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Song Is You, The,” ref1, ref2

  Songs for Swingin’ Lovers (album), ref1

  Songs for Young Lovers (album), ref1

  “Song Sung Blue,” ref1

  “South of the Border,” ref1, ref2

  South Pacific (Broadway musical), ref1

  Speedway (film), ref1

  Spice (album), ref1

  Springsteen, Bruce, ref1, ref2

  Stafford, Jo, ref1, ref2

  Stanwyck, Barbara, ref1, ref2

  Stapely, Bill (butler), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  “Stardust,” ref1

  Steeper, Harry, ref1

  Steiger, Rod, ref1

  Stephens, Dave, ref1

  Stephens, Ted, ref1

  Step Lively (film), ref1

  Stevens, Morty, ref1

  Stevenson, Adlai, ref1

  Stewart, Jimmy, ref1

  St. John, Jill, ref1

  Stoliar, Steve, ref1

  Stordahl, Axel (arranger), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Stradella, Debra, ref1

  “Strangers in the Night,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Strangers in the Night (album), ref1

  Streisand, Barbra, ref1, ref2

  Strickling, Howard, ref1

  Styne, Jule, ref1, ref2

  Suddenly (film), ref1

  “Sugar Town,” ref1

  “Summer Wind,” ref1

  “Summer Wine,” ref1

  Surtees, Robert, ref1

  Swing Along With Me (album), ref1n

  Swing Easy! (album), ref1

  Swingin’ Affair, A (album), ref1

  Symington, Stuart, ref1

  Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film), ref1

  Tamburro, Fred “Tamby,” ref1, ref2

  Taradash, Daniel, ref1

  Tarr, Beatrice “Bappie,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Tarr, Larry, ref1

  Taylor, Elizabeth, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Taylor, Robert, ref1

  Tebbett, David, ref1

  Tender Trap, The (film), ref1

  “Texas Cowboy Night,” ref1

  “That Old Jack Magic,” ref1

  “That’s Life,” ref1, ref2

  “Theme From New York, New York.” See “New York, New York”

  “These Boots Are Made for Walking,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” ref1

  Thibaut, Gilles, ref1

  “This Nearly Was Mine,” ref1

  Thomas, Danny, ref1, ref2

  Thomas, Kevin, ref1

  Thompson, Tommy, ref1

  Thomson, Virgil, ref1

  Thorp, Roderick, ref1

  Tillis, Mel, ref1

  Time magazine, Sinatra cover, ref1

  Tolson, Clyde, ref1

  Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tony Rome; ref1

  “Too Romantic,” ref1

  Torre, Marie, ref1

  Torrence, Dean, ref1, ref2

  Tracy, Spencer, ref1

  Trafficante, Santo, ref1

  Traubel, Helen, ref1

  Tredy, John, ref1

  Tredy, John (cousin), ref1

  Trilogy (album), ref1, ref2

  “True Love,” ref1

  Turner, Lana, ref1, ref2, ref3; warns Ava about Sinatra, ref1

  20th Century-Fox, ref1, ref2; Marilyn Monroe and, ref1; Mia Farrow and, ref1, ref2

  Uhlemann, Dorothy, ref1, ref2

  United Artists, ref1

  Universal Amphitheatre, ref1

  Universal Music Group, ref1

  Unruh, Jesse, ref1

  Uris Theatre, NYC, ref1

  U. S. Congress, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), ref1

  Vallée, Rudy, ref1

  Van Heusen, Jimmy (songwriter/friend), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Vanity Fair; ref1, ref2

  Venker, Marty, ref1

  Venturi, Nancy, ref1

  Victor Hugo’s, Beverly Hills, ref1

  Villa Venice, Chicago, ref1, ref2

  Viner, Mort, ref1, ref2

  Voice, The (album), ref1

  Von Ryan’s Express (film), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wagner, Robert, ref1

  Walker, Clint, ref1

  Wallach, Eli, ref1

  Wallachs, Glenn, ref1

  Walsworth, James H., ref1

  Ward, Father Herbert, ref1

  Waring, Fred, ref1

  Warner, Jack, ref1

  Warner Bros. and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, ref1, ref2, ref3; buys out Sinatra’s interest in the Sands and Cal-Neva, ref1; Sinatra as a vice president with, ref1; Sinatra films, ref1

  Warner Music Group, ref1

  Waterman, Sanford, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Watertown (album), ref1

  Wayne, John, ref1

  “Way You Look Tonight, The,” ref1

  Webb, Jimmy, ref1

  Webb, Stephen, ref1

  Weisman, Eliot, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Weitman, Bob, ref1

  Welding, Pete, ref1

  “Well, Did You Evah?,” ref1

  Wellman, Lucy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, NY, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Weston, Paul, ref1

  “What Now My Love,” ref1

  Where Are You? (album), ref1

  “Where or When,” ref1, ref2

  White, Loray, ref1, ref2n

  Whiting, Jim, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Why Me? (Davis), ref1

  “Why Should I Cry Over You,” ref1

  “Why Try to Change Me Now?,” ref1

  Wilken, Bea, ref1

  Wilken, Betty, ref1

  Wilkerson, William R., ref1

  Williams, Emlyn, ref1

  Williams, Esther, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Will Mastin Trio, ref1

  Wilson, Earl, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; book and Sinatra’s lawsuit, ref1

  Wilson, Joseph, ref1

  Wilson, Robert, ref1

  Wilson, Woodrow, ref1

  Winchell, Walter, ref1

  Winters, Shelley, ref1

  “Wishing,” ref1, ref2

  “Witchcraft,” ref1, ref2

  “Without a Song,” ref1

  WNEW radio, ref1

  Wolf, Jack, ref1

  Wood, Natalie, ref1

  World Mercy Fund, ref1, ref2

  World Tour for Children, ref1

  World War II: film industry and, ref1; “I’ll Never Smile Again” and, ref1; Sinatra rejected for service in, ref1

  Wright, James (butler), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Wrubel, Allie, ref1

  Wyatt, Andrew, ref1r />
  “You’ll Never Know,” ref1

  “You Make Me Feel So Young,” ref1

  “Young at Heart,” ref1, ref2

  Young at Heart (film), ref1

  “You’re Sensational,” ref1

  Your Hit Parade (radio show), ref1

  “You Will Be My Music,” ref1

  “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart,” ref1

  Zinnemann, Fred, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  List of Illustrations

  1. Francis Albert Sinatra in 1938, at the age of twenty-three.

  2. Frank Sinatra with Benny Goodman at CBS on “The Frank Sinatra Show” in 1940.

  3. Frank’s young wife Nancy Barbato Sinatra, in 1940, pregnant with her first child, Nancy Jr. Frank and Nancy were married on February 4, 1939.

  4. Sinatra in 1943. “I think it had a lot to do with the time period,” Sinatra would say of his success at the time with bobby-soxers. “It was important for people to have someone to root for during the war years. In their mind, I was one of the kids from their neighborhood who made good.”

  5. Frank and his firstborn, Nancy Jr., circa 1944.

  6. Frank and Nancy at the Trocadero nightclub in Hollywood in 1945. “If he loved you, that was it,” said their daughter Nancy Jr. of Frank. “He loved you through and through. There would be no change in that.”

  7. Frank in 1945.

  8. Dolly and Marty Sinatra stand proudly with their son, Frank, during the ceremonies for “Frank Sinatra Day” in Hoboken, New Jersey, October 30, 1947.

  9. Frank and Nancy with their daughter Tina, born in 1948.

  10. Frank, from the MGM film On the Town, in 1949.

  11. Frank and Ava Gardner, on their wedding day, November 7, 1951. It was Ava’s third marriage, Frank’s second. Frank always loved Ava’s wit: “Part of me had no doubt I would end up a movie star,” she liked to say. “Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.”

  12. The passionate—and combustible—marriage of Frank and Ava is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Here they are at the gala debut of Ernest Hemingway’s drama Snows of Kilimanjaro on September 18, 1952, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York. Ava was one of the stars of the film.

  13. Frank stands with fellow actors Montgomery Clift (left) and Burt Lancaster between scenes on the set of From Here to Eternity. Sinatra’s performance won him an Oscar as best supporting actor in 1953.

  14. Sinatra during a recording session at Capitol Records in 1954. “I like recording late at night,” he once said. “The later the better. My voice was not meant for daytime use.”

  15. Classic Frank, 1954. “There was a tremendous level of excitement—an air of expectation—every time he recorded,” recalled his son, Frank Sinatra Jr.

  16. Frank and his very good Rat Pack friend Sammy Davis Jr. at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood, August 1, 1955. Actress Lauren Bacall is visible in the background.

  17. When Frank ended his engagement to Lauren Bacall in 1957, it broke her heart. “But Frank did me a great favor,” she would say. “He saved me from the complete disaster our marriage would have been.” The two are seen here at a party after the Academy Awards on March 30, 1955.

  18. Frank and his best friend, Dean Martin, at a 1958 recording session at Capitol Records in Hollywood for Martin’s album Sleep Warm, which Sinatra conducted.

  19. Frank in 1959, during the recording of his Come Dance with Me album at Capitol.

  20. The legendary Rat Pack during filming of Ocean’s Eleven in 1960: (left to right) Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis Jr.

  21. Sammy, Dean, Frank, and Joey Bishop during a playful moment in 1960.

  22. Frank, in the middle, taking a steam at the Sands Hotel in 1960, flanked by Peter Lawford and Al Hart (Sinatra’s banker), with Sammy Davis Jr.

  23. Frank and his friend President John F. Kennedy, at a Democratic Party fundraising dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 10, 1960. Sinatra supported Kennedy’s run for the presidency in 1960 and sang the campaign’s theme song, “High Hopes,” with refashioned lyrics touting Kennedy’s candidacy.

  24. Frank escorting the First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, to her box at the Inaugural Celebration gala in 1961.

  25. A casual moment at the Santa Monica home of Peter and Pat Lawford in 1961: (left to right) Peter Lawford, Pat Kennedy Lawford, Frank Sinatra and his occasional lover Marilyn Monroe, May Britt (who was married to Sammy Davis Jr.), and Shirley MacLaine.

  26. Frank Sinatra Jr. at age seventeen, 1961.

  27. Eighteen-year-old Frank Jr. performing at Disneyland in 1962.

  28. Frank, his daughter Nancy Jr., and first wife, Nancy, beam after Frank Jr.’s opening night at the Flamingo Hotel in 1963.

  29. Frank in his dressing room (with his friend Jilly Rizzo) at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1964.

  30. The Sinatras: Tina, Nancy Sr., and Nancy Jr. with Frank Jr., circa 1965.

  31. Frank, flanked by Tina, seventeen, and Nancy Jr., twenty-five, arrive at the Beverly Hills Hotel for his fiftieth birthday in 1965. The party was hosted by Frank’s first wife, Nancy, and his daughters.

  32. Frank and Mia Farrow in 1965. Frank’s second wife, the much-older Ava Gardner, would tell Mia, “You, my dear, are the child Frank and I never had.”

  33. Fifty-two-year-old Frank takes a third wife, Mia, just twenty-one, on July 19, 1966, at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Their marriage would last two stormy years.

  34. Mia on her wedding day. She has said that the marriage was, in some ways, “more like an adoption.”

  35. Though father and son had a difficult relationship, despite it all they had an abiding love for one another. Frank Jr. and Sr. at a taping of The Dean Martin Show in 1967.

  36. Nancy Sinatra and Frank record their hit single “Something Stupid” in March 1967.

  37. Nancy could always bring a smile to Frank’s face.

  38. Posing for the cover of their 1968 Christmas album, The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas: (left to right) Tina, Frank, Nancy, and Frank Jr.

  39. Pals Frank and Dean in the late 1970s.

  40. Photo session for the My Way album, 1969. “I think we all see now how timeless the music is,” observed Frank’s daughter Nancy. “His songs, hopefully the great American songbook, will live forever.”

  41. Throughout his career, there was no separating the singer from the meaning of his songs.

  42. Frank and his fourth bride, the former Barbara Marx, on their wedding day, July 11, 1976, at the home of Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s.

  43. Frank and his proud mother, Dolly, on the evening Frank received the coveted Scopus Award from the Hebrew University of Israel in Los Angeles, November 14, 1976. Sadly, Dolly would die in a plane crash less than two months later, en route from Palm Springs to Las Vegas to see her son perform.

  44. Though Barbara was always at odds with Frank’s daughters, Nancy and Tina, she did seem to make Frank happy during their twenty-two years of marriage.

  45. Frank continued to perform all the way up until February 1995; here he is at the Long Beach Arena, in California. “May you live to be one hundred,” Frank would tell his audiences before leaving the stage, “and the last voice you hear be mine.”

  1. Francis Albert Sinatra in 1938, at the age of twenty-three.

  2. Frank Sinatra with Benny Goodman at CBS on “The Frank Sinatra Show” in 1940.

  3. Frank’s young wife Nancy Barbato Sinatra, in 1940, pregnant with her first child, Nancy Jr. Frank and Nancy were married on February 4, 1939.

  4. Sinatra in 1943. “I think it had a lot to do with the time period,” Sinatra would say of his success at the time with bobby-soxers. “It was important for people to have someone to root for during the war years. In their mind, I was one of the kids from their neighborhood who made good.”

  5. Frank and his firstborn, Nancy Jr., circa 1944.

  6. Frank and Nancy at the Trocadero nightclub in Hollywood in 1945. “If he loved you, that was it,” sai
d their daughter Nancy Jr. of Frank. “He loved you through and through. There would be no change in that.”

  7. Frank in 1945.

  8. Dolly and Marty Sinatra stand proudly with their son, Frank, during the ceremonies for “Frank Sinatra Day” in Hoboken, New Jersey, October 30, 1947.

  9. Frank and Nancy with their daughter Tina, born in 1948.

  10. Frank, from the MGM film On the Town, in 1949.

  11. Frank and Ava Gardner, on their wedding day, November 7, 1951. It was Ava’s third marriage, Frank’s second. Frank always loved Ava’s wit: “Part of me had no doubt I would end up a movie star,” she liked to say. “Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.”

  12. The passionate—and combustible—marriage of Frank and Ava is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Here they are at the gala debut of Ernest Hemingway’s drama Snows of Kilimanjaro on September 18, 1952, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York. Ava was one of the stars of the film.

 

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