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was filing cation for an interest inpthe
Bay, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, with
with SINATRA will be his
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investing $12,of North Ho , invest-
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LIt appears that SINATRA will end up with a
25 per cent interest in the casino wi
controlling 57 per cent of the stock ed
that several months ago considerable punrrczty was
attached to SINATRA's hiring of ALBERT MALTZ, described
as one of "Hollywood Big Ten Communists," to produce
or direct a film SINATRA was backing and later dischar~in~MALTZ following revelation MALTZ was allegedly a,Commu§is¬.
It is requested you furnish this division with
information your files may contain concerning SINATRA,
SANACOLA, MARTIN, and MALTZ with particular reference to
any positive connection between SINATRA and MALTZ.
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I Handsome, volatile, magnetic, al-
ternaieiy exuberant and depressed,
Francis Albert Sinatra, usually re-
ferred 16' simply as F rank" or
Sinatra or The Voice," now iorty-
two enervating years old, a man
whose hair is thinning as rapidly as
his moods and torments and whims
and rages are thickening in fre-
quency, is today at the peak of his
many careers.
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much frenetic activity into three score
and ten as Sinatra has jammed into
less than a half century. He is known
today mainly as a singer and an
actor, but he is more than that: he is
also a director, occasional writer,
producer, music publisher, composer,
gambler, carouser, practical joker,
political campaigner, father, and. . »,_ ,-
lover. -e - . E :'-;
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million!, much of which, after the
government has taken its ravenous
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much, much more where it all came from. He is fully
aware that Sinatra isthe greatest single male drawing
card that is to be found in the entertainment business
today.
At the same time, Sinatra is something phenome-
nal. lie is not -iin::'ely an entertainer and a personal-
ity. He is an immensely powi=rl'ul force--a law unto
l1imS6lf. His lanl: shadow, now bulging a hit at the
waist, falls across the world of show business. The
psychological drives that usually send a periornier
into the business are generally quieted after security
and recognition have been acliieved. Sinatra has
not relaxed in the least. indeed, as he has gruwlt
l1igge1' and more powerful, he has grown nmru alv-
mandingly arroganti he rft'i.ii ilaamis iiis arro;.u||n-i-
in public. The vast amounts of nnnn-}' hr has |n;uh:
apparently lm92'e-not lItl'll able lu ln|_t him vunutiimal
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entourage is something special. lt is composed of
friends, associates, press agents, song pluggers, and
cosmeticians, hut, in addition, it is composed of stars
who are very nearly as big as is Frank Sinatra
himself.
This entourage is often referred to as The
Clan. When the members of the Clan who are per-
[ormet's-Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, _]'r., Peter
Lawford, and Joey Bishop--get together with Sinatra
for a public appearance. they reverently call him
The Leader," and he speaks of the gathering as
"The Summit Meeting. This is a joke, but at bottom
it" is not; it is kidding on the square. It is as
though the approval of millions. freely ltanded him,
openly dedicated to him, were .o.-Minuet! on page I79!
Riglir. an so! of Or-ran: Eli-r¢'n." Sinatra relaxes at the roa-
lwrlr irhr-i-I. Opposite. renter. Irv rlim-ns on stogr with Chm
rm-mbi-rs D:-an Martin, Pen-r Lrm'[ord', dud Sammy Davis, ]r.,
aml, lIt",ll', .rr:'rb Dar-is. Oppasiri-. rap. r gazes at his cur-
r--ur girl friend. rlanrc-r Jirlirt Prairsr: cu for right. hr is
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era-ed attention so desperately that he
Sinatra's power is not merely per-
sonal; it is also scal. Because he is
ranked high among the top-drawing lm
attractions, he can demand a share i.n~
the production of the lm from all major
studios that ask for his services-and
practically all of them are constantly ash- 1;
ing for his services. Frank could spend Y
the rest of his life making all the lms
offered to him in a single month, a.
friend of his has told me. He also can H
demand the right of approval of the pro-
duction siaii and oi his costars. This
means that he can, by grintacing. put the-
kiss of death on an actor or actress he
does not like-or build up an inated
reputation for one he does like.
AT CAPITOL Records. Sinatra is the ac-
knowledged king. He seldom tnakm
an LP disk that docs not hit the 2lI.l.lIll-
copy mark. A new Sinatra LP is all but
automatically played on the nations radio
stations. Officials at Capitol let him pick
his own tunes and his own accompanists.
They listen carefully-to his advice. too.~
They bow to his work schedule, which 1
is irregular; if he decides to remrd at 1
midnight. they pay the overtime charges
without protesL .
A word irorn Sinatra can boost the?
progress of new singers or slow that of 1
others. Similarly, Sinatra is powerful in
the selection of songs that the company
records, not only for his records but for
these made by others. He has interests. *
in a couple of music-publishing compa-
tries. the names oi which change from
time to time; the biggest was called
Barton. l-le can dictate to these compa-
nies the songs he wishes to be plugged,
by live performance on television and
radio.
A few months back there was a small
revival of Oh, Look at Me Now, a song
Frank used to sing with Tommy Dorsey, 92
a publisher told me. l oouldnt under-
stand why. Then l learned that Frank1~
wanted it brought back. He-d called the
company that handled it and oered to-
put his own plugging facilities behind it.
Then he'd called other singers and asked t
them to use it. Before longltingn! A
re-rival."
, Sinatra's voice is powerful. as well.
in the talent-agency business. There is
every indication that his oft-voiced de-
termination to lornt a talent agency oi
_lti.s own may become reality before
this year is out. It is taken for granted
that members oi his Clan will ock into
any new organisation he may ionn or
will even follow him ii he decides to go
to another organization. Sure, I'd go
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told me, as though there were no question
in his mind. And it is conceivable that
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pounds of weight around when he wishes
was indicated by a situation that devel-
oped when he held his Summit ting
at his favorite Miami Beach h this
past March. Sammy Davis. .lr., was un-
der exclusive contract to another hotel;
his contract stated he could not appear,
even in an informal, impromptu way,
anywhere else_in Miami Beach. Sinatra
made a telephone call to the manager
holding the contract. When Frank wants
something, he drips charm, a friend
says. He wanted Davis. Before the man-
ager could object, Sinatra had proposed
a solution, :'Ho,w about_ making an ex-ception? said. We"woni advertise
him; as far as the general public knows,
youl.l still have him exclusively. And
he promised to make it seem that Davis
had just dropped in to see his pals. Then
he promised a favor to the manager; the
latter agreed; Sammy Davis, ]r., appeared.
What all of this means to you is that
Francis Albert Sinatra exercises a most
powerful control over much of what you
enjoy or don't enjoy! in films, on tele-
vision, on records, on the radio, in night-
clubs-indeed, in every medium of en-
tertainment except newspapers and snag-
azines. To Sinatra's apparently intense
disgust, there is very little he can do
about controlling the press. Nevertheless,
he tries. When any clusrly independent
writer is about to do a story on him, he
throws a hlsnket of silence over all his
companions. Sometimes he threatens law-
suits. Occasionally he actually does sue
when a published article displeases him.
Sinatra's influence as a pace setter is
unparalleled in Hollywood. The infor-
mality of many recent TV eatravaganzas
shows in which a couple of singers sim-
ply stand around and sing snatches of
tunes! is an attempt to copy the success-
ful shows Sinatra has done.
Sinatra also has tremendous influence
on the changing styles oi music. it used
to be that most singers sang ballads with
strings or soft reeds as a background.
Sinatra has always liked to sing with a
strong beat. ln recent years he has been
making more and more records with
Nelson Riddle. an arranger known for
his use of dynamics and for his contrasts
in brass and strings. Many other sing-
ers are hiring Riddle-oriented arrangers
and leaders.
FULLY aware of all these facts, Si-
natra.still does not seem to live com-
fortably with them.__He continues to as-
sert himself as though he were climbing
and not yet on the top.
The root of Sinatras lK'ltavi0rwhicll.
because he is both powerful and seem-
ingly inaatiablt.'could conceivably deter-
mine the quality of the entertainment
you see and hearrnay lie in his chilling
awareness that if he has not yet begun
to slip he ultimately will. All performers
fall out of favor rventttally to some dc-
grec: this is as sure as the rhangr of
s-ear-ons in naturi-. Yet Sinatra evidently
rrfus-es to recognise inevitability: he is. he
seems hound In proclaim osrr and over.
the inlles-trurtihlc exception. lfis attitude
M.tt|- to he that failure must not happen
to him. lle will light it off by sheer power.
tanFailure is only for those he calls the
clydes -the squares, the inepts, those
on whom fortune has not smiled.
In 1951 and 1952 Sinatra himself at
pcared to have reached the end of one_
of the most fantastic ropes ever woven
by pure appeal to the ticket-buying pub-
lic. From 1945 on he had been earning
over a million dollars a year; highbrow
magazines were printing articles about
his unprecedented hold on not only the
swooning teen-agers hut also their par-
ents and even their grandparents. His
rise_had made those of Rudyvallec and
Bing Crosby seem like ripples beside the
tidal wave of his personal popularity. -
ALL at once, Sinatra was in trouble.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his home film
studio, was disturbed by his habit of pro-
ducing unfavorable headlines; his rec-
ords were not selling as well as they had
been; even in nightclubs he was not
drawing as he once had. He seemed to
be washed up. He was broke, and he was
borrowing from friends. His second mar-
riage, to Ava Gardner, was falling apart.
He was as low as a man of his former
eminence could get. Then he pulled him-
self o the floor.
Buddy Adler, now production chief at
Twentieth Century-Fox, was a Columbia
Pictures producer under the bombastic
and autocratic Harry Cohn. Sinatra went
to Adler and odered to play Maggie in
From Here to Eternity for nothing. Or
his agents made the offer; there are as
many versions of this story as there are
people to tell it.! Adler tested him re-
luctantly. Sinatra nally got the part
and we given eight thousand dollars lot
his servicesplus, eventually, an Acad-
emy Award; plus, almost _at once, an
even greater measure of esteem than he
had had before. Hit lms followed. one
after another. He was red-hot again.
Today Sinatra refuses to admit he was
ever down and close to being out. What
do they mean, I was nished? he once
shouted, a friend reports. "I was never
finished!
You were close. Frank. the friend
said piacatingly nearly all Sinatrais
friends are accustomed to speaking to
him in soothing tonesl.
I was never nished! he yelled. ao-
cording to this friend. l showed them,
didn't I?
There is no denying it. But somewhere,
under the red-faced belligerence, there
may be a small, pulsating vein of .un-
certainty.
Of late Sinatra has been getting enough
bad reviews to unsettle the average per-
former. Few critics saw anything valid
in his performance in Some Come Raul-
ning: the picture was received almost
as badly as latnes .lones'a original book
had been. ln the London Daily Express.
rrititf-pianist Robin Douglas-llome wrote
of Sinatra: last long-playing record:
llfe is notl up to brilliant standard. . . .
The ro||ndne.-'-I of his voire of the early
days serm- to haw given way recently
lo a harsher, ru.1r-er tone that gels more
pronounverl with each new record. = . ."
John Crosby, the television and radio en].
umnist. recently said. l hate always
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wrote of Sinatra's performance Illt
Can Hts tired voice and
suggest to moviegoers . . that
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QINATBA himself is hoarding
" handing the Voice." Eace t
cording, he usual!
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was touring
man last autumn,
show coming up He
at once. He oered to
Goodman a substitute musician,
send Norvo back When it became
that Norvo could not make
nccttons ut time Sinatra
at himself, for forgetting
p Many of Sinatra's rages are
,,at himself Before he moved in
$250 000 house he now occupies tn
Palisades, he lived in a small
Wdslnre %ulcvard, e little
erly Hills Agent Irving Paul Lazar
next door, tn a l.l.t'l.'0I' image
decorated, as Sinatra's had
Loretta Young: mother Mrs
Belzer Often Lazar would come
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Cat, hunched over a table
and a glass before him, bl
something he had done or had
do the htfi system rattling
against the walls. I used to
mm up, i-ii-if i ilu me,
he got tn one of those moods,
nothtng anybody could do
friend says, When Sinatra
screams and shouts and
then, a second later, he
does some nice thtngs Unce, on
Ill Spain, he was furious at on
prop kids for something he
would have bun
he was feeling
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preserve has voice. Th
ntghtclub date. he
age, eyes blanng.
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spending to the
with a half-dozen
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don! hes sun: mot!
any given song. llll "198
and often hll I
after a fen llIIl'l- All -
bqm resorting to such
hrs own words and phrarea
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passages. -. -
Ltrtc-changing fl ll! one
.' tar disapproval. Lastme ueauer
because he
himsel hat
goes of
filkb ru[Jl.l°
he made
headlines by hiring Albert to write
the screenplay for a planned Sinatra-
produced lm, The Execution of Private
Slooik. Malt: is one of a group of writer!
known as the Hollywood Ten; he served
a prison sentence for contempt of Con-
gress aiter he had reiused to discuss his
Communist affiliations. It was no secret
in Hollywood that the Ten, "ocially"
blaelclisted by studios. had been -writing
scripts under the table. so to spealr, ever
since they got out oi iaii. Sinatra may
have felt that it was more honest his
friends say he has a passion for stark
honesty! to come out in the open with
the hiring of Malta, but many interpretedtnvolvernent in politics, oi course, is
not new lor Siiiatra. Probably through
the good oices oi Peter Lawlord, who
is m_arried to Senator Kennedy's sister
Patricia, Sinatra recorded quite a iew
plugs for the Kennedy cause. He also
campaigned for Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman and for Adlai Stevenson, twice.
Sinatra's friends like to rib him by sib-
ing him whether he plans to become
Secretary of Health, Education and Wel-
iare if Kennedy is elected. . . .
Now and then word of Sinatra's ap-
parent contempt for the public seeps
through the stone wall erected around
the performer by his press agents, the
rm of Henry Rogers-Warrut Cowan,
inc. in illiadison, Indiana, Sinatra, on
location for Some Came Running, was
riding in a bus past people who were
lined up to see him. He reportedly kept
up a running commentary on them that
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it as an insult to the public. Sinatra was
sub j ected to an enormous amount oi crit-
icism, by newspaper editorial and from
pulpit and lectern, and nally announced
that he was dropping Maitr-
Such a complete concession--even to
such indignant and orerwltelrning public
opinion as Sinatra faced in the .92laltz
situstionis so uncharacteristic oi the
Franlt Sinatra oi today that observers
are inclined to the belief that some tre-
mendous and unusual pressure must have
been applied to Sinatra to mahe him givel
they could not hear. Look at that ugly
broad over there, he allegedly said. Hi,
fat boy. Hi, you horrible bag. All the
while he ltept beaming. Outside a bar
named the Oasis, he ourished a glass
in the air. Our people do not aunt
their drinlting. . . . We like to think
we're gentlemen, one Madison resident
said. Later Sinatra was accused oi having l~
abused a sixty-seven-year-old clerk in the
motel in which he was staying because
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'2 .aa Jewish musician, Sinatra cracked him
with a bottle, and when a cou"'errnan
in a diner refused to serve tgro,
Sinatra slugged him. Nothing bl ..gs out
Frank's temper as quickly as bigotry,
his press agent, Warren Cowan, says.
In view of this, some recent develop-
ments are incomprehensible. For example,
what I heard during a performance of Si-
natra's Summit Meeting in Miami Beach
in March made me wonder ii my ears
were working properly. Not only antirace
and antircligion jokes but also open pro-
fanity cascaded from the stage.
SINATRA demandsand gets--strict
ohedience from those around him.
While he was working in Lss Vegas, he
decreed that none of his gang should set
toot inside a certain club; nobody would
have considered defying him. He insists
on absolute loyalty, even to the point
that none oi his cronies may say any-
thing remotely critical oi him. For ex-
ample, in the winter of 1959, Sammy
Davis, .lr., in an interview conducted by
Jack Eigen, a disk jockey in Chicago,
said, Talent is not an excuse for bad
manners. l love Frank, but there are
many things he does that there is no ex-
cuse for. . . ."~Word at once came to him
that Sinatra was furious. Sinatra is said
to have got a tape of the program. He
took action promptly. He had previously
had the screenplay of Never So Few re-
written so that there would be u part for
Davis. He ordered lite Negro part written
out and hired actor Steve McQueen in-
stead. Earl Wilma, the Broadway re-
porter, later said, Twas reported that
Sammy was ready to hurl himself pros-
trate on the stage to ask Frank's forgive-
ness. Later Sinatra did relent, and since
then Davis has seemed determined never
to fall from favor again, using only the
most glowing terms when he speaks of
the Leader.
On March 25, 1959, while Davis was
appearing at the Copacabana in Man-
hattan. l interviewed him in his suite in
the Hotel New Yorker. He dgeted con-
stantiy, moving irom chair to chair, inap-
ing to the huge sofa and squatting there
on his haunches; he was like an excitable
nuthatch. When I asked Davis about
Sinatra's reactions to his Chicago corn-
ments, he said he could not discuss the
incident. Presently I asked him what it
was about Sinatra that caused him and
other members of the Clan to he so,
slavish in tlteir adoration. Davis looked
shocked. l'le glanced over his shoulder
nervously. then said solemnly. Why. be-
cause Frank is a very. very. very great
man. Dean Martin later echoed this to
me in an interview. That Frank: the
greatest, he slid. A great. great man,
that Frank.
With his new great am-ress. Sinatra
has taken on the lush living ltaliita oi
the wry. u'r3' rirh. llarry Ktlfltilz, the
screen writer and hunmrist. tnlrl of the
time he was a gm-st on a vat-ht Sinatra
haul rhartrrl for I grtulp of friends
ior a cruise down the Caiiinrnio coast.
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until all hours, Kurnitz added, You knov
Frank is the only person in the wor.
who will invite you to a black-tie dinner
and tell you to bring your sunglasses."
On that same cruise, according to actor
Martin Gabe], husband of TV personality
Arlene Francis, Sinatra hired a seaplane
to follow the yacht, to take guests home
and bring aboard new waves of them.
Once, last spring in Miami Beach. when
he needed a haircut, Sinatra had his own
barber flown in from New York and gave
him a hundred-dollar tip; when his
throat was bothering him. he had his
physician brought down. When he gam-
hles, he plunges like the legendary Bet-
a-Miliion Gates. lve seen him go up to
the baccarat table with ten thousand dol-
lars, sit down, put the bundle on the
table, ride it up to thirty thousand, lose
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shrug." says fled Norvo.
itt itionte Carlo, columnist Leonard
Lyons once watched Sinatra place a
packet of ten-thousand-franc notes ap-
proximately two thousand dollars] on
the red, lose with one turn of the wheel.
then take out another packet of bills of
the same denomination, and another, and
keep playing until the place closed and
he was ahead by around three thousand
dollars. He walked out jauntily, leading
his entourage to a nightclub named the
All Baha. where he suddenly was moved
to sing. The piano player did not suit
him. He gave the man ten thousand
francs to let his own accompanist take
over.
THE Clan. evidently believing that imi-
tation is the most desirable fonn oi
flattery, does its best to emulate its
Leader in his gaudy ways. All members-
with the possible exception oi two female
members, Shirley Maclraine and Iudy
Garland the latter has been iii and in-They wear
theirs from
5y Devore;
screen eredit on shows!, and
even drive can like Frank's. His is-a _
Dual-Chin, a custom-made model -with _';
an American motor and an Italian body,
costing. around ten thousand dollars.-__.
Martin once told me, regretfully, he had
tried to buy a Dual-Chis but could not,
find anybody who would sell him one; _§*-7.
He now drives a Jaguar hard-top road-
ster, evidently with Sinatra: approval? g
The Clan also tries to emulate Si--
natraa own peculiarspeech habits. All?-=¢_:
secret societies have secret languages, but
the Clan'a is so obscure that a lady '1jo-._l~'Ii-
porter once complained, _after Sinatra _"-"
had granted her a few minutes of '=
time, For years I tried. to get an __ext".l_tt_-_.,7:l3-I Isive interview . . . and when I got one, <_ --;
I couldn't understand a word he said. '_ .
ONCE Sinatrh has put his stamp of ap-
proval on a slang word; it is obliga-
tory for the members to use it on all
occasions. Ring-a-ding" was ior a time
the number-one word. Sinatra would itt--o--Q--o do :I92.ao LL. -,._|-- at-as-I "-- do -..-la--.92l=lJ§IwL as out-U uao aualgra aaaau I-Its; an. Iflli-l* H
ever he wanted to express approval, as
in: Shirley MacLaine is a ring-a-ding
lbad. Broad, oi course, is the stand-
ard Clan word for woman, even a. to- ' '
spectable woman, although Sinatra some? .-
times applies it to women he does not-
like. A girl who especially pleases him
is a gasser, and anything that is _fun_ .=
or thrilling is a gas. The synonymalmost any word is elyde,
inally bad an o-color meaning
show folk, as in Kick him in the clyde.'_.f.92.§';§
Sinatra and his cronies now use it__for-f-fri-Q
nearly everything. Hand me the elyde,Y'; E;-.;
Siuatra might say, asking forthe telo---
phone book in the unlikely event;be;Tf;;-
ever looks up a number in the telephone
hook! ; or, Let's go to the clyde, mean-_=:
ing, Let's go into the dining room _ot'___d__"'
Let's go to the party.
At a party, when Sinatra becomes -
bored. he often says, I think it's going g.a- __:.. II 'lL: . _ . --- st.-. oL_ I _-.l__tu amass. a also IIIIFIIII lllll uat; aacaauca 9a-.-.wishes to go elsewhere. Sinatra is always _-_t
going elsewhere; he once said to director
Vincent: Minnelli. I can't help it._ ;
Nobody seems to be able to help me with 3 5-,
it. l've got to go! I have to move! ' ' - -1"
He was gripp'ed_hy -thiicontpulaionthe night of the reception following" Jack
Benny: daughter: first wedding. 'I'he_?}-,;
Bennys are topight Beverly Hills so-5;,cialitea, loved and respected members,
a community that prises talent ev""7'--2
above ridtes. They had given 'm=a'-:2?
daughter such an elaborate party that:
their peers talked about it for
afterward. Sinatra became bored_ soon;-T .
alter he and his grouphadthink it's going to rain, he muttered.jl.f ~Those who did not hear him
sensed his eagerness to move. Hisparty departed. ' '
Sinatra's war with the press has nowjfit-1
become familiar to the P-litlii-1-l l¢',lll5','_n',f§='-
insisted that the broke up
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He haswill aloof from
R -.:ra. t a no re- has had anything amounting to
a genuine interview with Sinatra for two
years. Requests for interviews are turned
aside with the eaplanation Qt Sinatra
is away, "sick," or busy. Whether
he wishes to he or not, Sinatra has be-
come the most feared man in Hollywood
Sinatra is a closed corporation in this
town, a veteran Hollywood reporter told
me recently. No one will talk about
l'|.im.. He's an untouchable. '
Sinatra takes nearly everything written
about him the wrong way, for some rea-
son that is not entirely clear. When Bill
Davidson, one of the best of the "report-
ers in depth, wrote a three-part article
about Sinatra for Look magazine, in
which he indicated that the performer was
less than superhuman, Sinatra promptly
led suit for libel. Later this suit was
dropped, and another, claiming that the
magazine had invaded Sinatra's privacy,
was substituted. That suit is now await-
ing trial in the Los Angeles courts.
When l began working on this article,
l sent a telegram asking for interviewwith Sinatra to Warren Cowtrl, his press
agent. It was ne927Er'92""s'iivi:'i', but I wastold by Guy Mellwaézl, then an employee
of Cowan's,"'My s oitgest recomenda-
tinn to him will be that he see you. I can't
promise anything beyond that.
vwhen I reached Miami Beach, Mell-
waine stated, rst, that Frank was too
tied up over the Albert Malta thing" he
had just hired Malta, and the press was
hitting him hard! and, second, that he
was too busy rehearsing his television
show {the show, telecast in May, in
which he welcomed hack Elvis Presley
to civilian life!. /3
I learned it is useless to attempt to get
othe to talk ahou ' the LeaderMa Sammy Jr., P ,_I'. -for Joey B ', Hank Sdzola i-natra| riglit- d man}. ack____ I-7.
Beans Ponedel Sinatra's make-up an!
persistently avoided me. I nally up
trying to see them.kept
j ..l. this would have been merely nus-
trating ii it had not been for one
incident that was alarming. While I
was in Miami Beach on this story. III!
phone rang at lour one morning. Word
apparently had been circulated that 1
was writing an article. A low voice said.
German? this is a common mispro-
nunciation oi my name!. I_i you know
whgfl good for you," the voice wt on,
lay oil Frank. The receiver cliched in
my ear. _ _ _ _ _
At rst I was convinced it Ill I joke-
The trouble was, my rapidly bell-ill;
heart didn't act as if it had been a ioke;
nor did my shaking hands. It land to be
a prank, I reasoned. Even those most
infected by Sinatra's highly contagious
devil-may-care attitude would not be
rash enough to threaten a man. But I
could not help being disturbed.
Much has been written of Sinatra'sl___-
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hoodlum companions. Whether he has
any such connections is dicult to verify.
However, the iact that Sinatra himself is
only 100 well aware that many people be-
lieve _he has them is evinced by a line he
permits Joey Bishop to use in the Summit
Mlfel-"'5 I611 Later on, says Bishop,
Sinatra will give a lecture on all the
good work the Maliia does."
Sinatra do-..s not depend m his eo-
horts to be pugnacious in his behalf.
He does considerable ghting on his own,
or he has in the past. In Monte Carlo
one night, he was approached by an Eng-
lishmitn who once had insulted Ava
Gardner. The man put out his hand, try-
ing to patch things up. -He was well over
6'4" and weighed at least 250 pounds.
Sinatra stared at him oontemptuously.
Beat it, hum, he said. Taken aback,
the l.'nanwbo could have demolished
Sinatra with one slap-retreated, apolo-
gizing. Another time, a man kept trying
to crash one of Sinatra's parties in Palm
Springs. Later he disappeared, and a
friend asked what had happened to him.
He became punched, Sinatra said, with
a wink.
Besides the actual physical combat,
there also have been any number of ver-
bal set-tos with directors, producers, and
other actors. Sinatra walked off the set
of Crou-tel when it was on location in
Maine because he disagreed with Henry
Ephron. the producer. On the Some Came
Running location in Indiana, M-G-M ex-
ecutive producer Sol Siegel had to make
peace between Sinatra and Vineente Min-
nelli, the director. The Guys nnd Dolls
set was a far from happy one; Sinatra
and Marlon Brando could notget along
together. -
WHEN Sinatra is working, either things
go his way or he automatically rebela
I-le sets his own hours, usually begin-
ning work at ll AM. This invariably
costs a studio extra money, since over-
time costs mount considerably when a
company has to be kept working until
seven or eight t'.tt., as is often the case
with Sinatra's companies. Sinatra's rec-
ords arc also made on his own personal
schedule. He has been known to keep
an orchestra waiting around a"studio
until close to midnight, when he feels
1-elssed enough to sing at his best.
Sinatra claims he works as he does
because he knows exactly what is best
for him. Directors who have worked with
him have been known to disagree. ll
he would just listen. Stanley Kramer,
the producer-director, once said, he
might become the greatest actor in the
world." Sinatra will seldom listen. He
dictates not only to the director and pro-
ducer, but even to minor participants.
On many occasions be acts_also as an
uno$cial casting director. Shirley Mac-
Laine'a rapid rise has not come about
entirely as a result of her talent, which
is adequate. It is reasonable to assume
that Sinatra's interest in her and his
encouragement have been of great help.
Time and time again Sinatra has told
people that he hates being alone. And
it is a good possibility that his extraor-
dinary work schedule is predicated on-._ 4 I '- -:-_ ,-as LI
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women. To list all of Sinatra's girls
would be an endless task, hut in recent
years Lauren Ba was the it unner,
as far as the H yivood gue- .s were
concerned, whe er anyone happened
to ask, Will Sinatra marry again?
Sinatra met Miss Bacall while her
huiband, Humphrey art, was still
alive. Bogart then l a small group.
called "The liol;nhy_ __ill.s Rat Pack.
which rnetregularly hishouse to mobk
study Hollywood soc' ty. Sinatra became
a member in good standing. Hes a hell
of a guy, Bogart once said to me. lie
tries to live his own life. ll he could only
stay away lrom broads and devote some
time to developing himself
as an actor, he'd be one ofLast year, S atra was involv_'§"lvith
Lady Jydglle 'tty, the American-bo-~
ex-wife oi _ ' Beatty, son _of Adm
Beatty, hero o Jutland. S'ni:' visited h
in the United States, at Palm Springs,
and also went to sec him when he was
making his annual pilgrimage to__Miarni
Beach. He visited her in London where
he demonstrated to British reporters that
his hatred of the press is not limited by
national boundaries: He appeared to
loathe us just as much as he loathes
Americans, said Gerald McKnight of
the Sunday Dispatch!.
Sinatra was annoyed by reports that
he was about to marry Lady Beatty; heimZ§1'.i;}}LZh.
stopped. I
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natra's current
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ing. By the time this is read, -
have been replaced.!
sINATfl.A'S friends say his
ardor is an indicatr
mental zest for__1ife and experience
chiatrists might have different views,
ing into consideration them: that
is fantastically meticulous. He takes :_'a;': Q
shower two or three times a day, ":
clothes more often than that, and is end-,-.'*
i ishly insistent that his ,4:
tera be__kept_immacula I, '
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Sinatra was around the Bo- §
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only when the Rat Pack
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at other times. He some-
times stopped in the mom-
ing; other times he would
drop by in the afternoon,
stay for dinner, and sit
DPa'92lIII92a" until lain ll nia-in} sltuuaau lllla-ll nan. ma "-5-"-
hirn, Bogart told me. It's 1 , __
as though he doesn't have a i?
home of his own. We seem
In he parent symbols or 5
something. Or maybe it's
just that he likes a place ...;'-;._
where he can relax com- ..
pletely.
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haps it was only natural for
Lauren Bacall to turn to
Sinatra for companionship,
but their relations rapidly
progressed upward from
mere sociability. One eve-
ning, while the relationship
was at its warmest. I had
a drink with her in Beverly
Hills. She was awaiting a
telephone call from Sinatra. l don't know what it is _ '
about this joint; it seems - _
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woundedotionallyhe was very young and hiagfii
not been able to heal the_f§;"
wounds with the salve
maturity. Like his relations-~_
with women, the saga of
icrmative years has
set down so many tinJ_es_;l_'.
~ that to repeat it except -_ =
briey would only waste
space. He was born in L
bolten, New Jersey, "thc_-Q-_'
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was a minor politician attii,'g: =
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nndary character in tl_t_aI§-J
eonnuhial drama. Variousyt
relatives and friends helped
raise him. Skinny andf_'[email protected]:-slight-muscled, he made_t2_'§v§for an not of staturewia compensating eockine_sa'-i;f
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be found in recent accounts
who was in Florida. Her
eyes danced in anticipation.
After she came from speaking to him on
the phone, she was radiantly happy. Are
you going to marry him? l asked bluntly.
She gave me a mysterious smile and
changed the subject.
Later Louella Parsons broke the news
that they were to be married. Some men
close to Sinatra have told me he was in-
furiated; they say he blamed Miss But-all
lor the report and icrthwith hrclte ed
their relationship. Others say she was
troubled by rumors she kept hearing of
Sinatra's herculean interest in the oppo-
site sex and decided that he could not
take Bogart's place as a father ior her
children. Whatever happened, a month
or so later, when they brushed near each
nlher at a party. they scarcely spoke.
The romance had lasted a year. Recently
Miss Bacall told me that Sinatra still
calls her occasionally. Others have re-
ported that he calls his lirst wife, Nancy,
134told an audience which included Prin-
cess Margaret!, l did not come here to
get married. One friend of Lady Beatty's
recently told me, She felt he was too
mercurial for marriage. Sinatra's reason
for the eventual breakup has not been
registered for posterity.
Sinatra. as a lover. is a hit like an
avalanche. Not long ago a starlet, who
wan gig aria-l fnr I In" fags» risaara fthnrniau _" ' §"- U. _ ""' "' ' _ 92 " """I'
setting some sort of tenure record!, de-
scribed his courtship. First. there were
the incessant calls, the said. Funny
callsjoky, kookie calls. You know,
Frank is a real wit. Uniortunately, ahe
could not remember anything iunny he
had said to her.! "Then there were all
the ilowers and champagne and presents
by the doeen. And then, when he nally
got back to town he'd been awltlt there
were the nights at his favorite restau-
rants. She stopped. f prodded her toraphera not strongly indii-_,_
enced by him, his clique or his agents.
Once Sinatra told a reporter that he
gone to see a psychiatrist for a time _b§tt .
then he had given it up; he had iound__;f_
out what he wanted to know, he"aait_i.{
The resulting combination'of'his
havioral tendencies and of his vaat'"a'n"d;'-_-
growing personal power should '
cause of concern to all who watch and
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human being. When it iain the hands.
oi 1 man torn by emotions that he app'a'r;?.
ently either cannot or does not care
control, it is something to viewalarm. As Lord Acton'a _iamousstates: Power tends to corrupt and _r'_:
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ill. "Big john opldns, |n road manager tor entertalm I
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ujohn Does! as ;_t!Q_,";!ner__.
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{handled byainatra, atber at
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Deputy City Atty. Edward
Davenport. -
He was to tell his own ver-;
sion of events in a May 14
parking lot tracas as part of:
a hearing started yesterclaylby Davenport.Davenport had said he 1wanted to hear all sides" be-l
fore determining whether orow Up
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not assault and battery!- " WAYNE ROW
The ght took place at the=
Moulrn -Rouge following-11 ;'
$100-a-plate charity party forj
SHARE, at which Sinatra
earlier became involved in an
argument with actor John
Wayne. r - -
Moran's testimony was sup- 5
ported by three "other Moulin;
Rouge parl-zingiot attendants. ;
All stated that Sinatra had
called down another at-;
tendant and shook another
attendant by the lapels, be-y
fore turning on'Moran. i
The three were Michael J.
Hart, night parking lot man-.
ager, Lex Winter, and Bud
Hakim.
Moran has led a $10U,0U0icivilgdarnage suit against Hpap-itkins -and 10 John Does" as 1
an aftermath of the alleged
Elllllbill. H-pl'¬S92il'lLll1g J.92r'1U.l_Hni
is Atty. Samuel Brody. charges should be filedlj
against the singer. .
SECOND CHANCE
Since Sinatra did not
take advantage of his sec-
ond chance to appear today I
and had refused to attend '
the initial hearing ycster- ~.
day Davenport stated he
would determine late today 1
or early tomorrow if crim-
inal action should be filed.
The hearing was called 1
on charges made by Eddie
Moran, parking lot attend-
ant, that he was shoved bySinatra and beaten up by
Johnliopkins, road man- i
Sinatra's attorney, Miltonager {or Sammy Davis jr.
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day that he might be able to
persuade the singer to ap-
pear today.
The singer, he said, had
tayed away from yesterdays
ession partially to avoid pub-
icity and partially because he
felt that the criminal pro-
ceedings were being used as
means to get more money in
a civil action. i
Charges of battery and dis-i
turbing the peace will be
brought against Hop kins,
who is named in Moran's
complaint as the person. 2
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17., .'.:=.,i.,;;,.m, H,_i_, W, Sinaiiza. said Hopkins andx i-my ::Icr:-. ar. -P-i.7f3l3-£1, iiM0"a'ég?i]jntO 3 scuffle almost,.; "My j: K -mrne 1816 y. ~ iCI'i§.8l:i;2H]!=i'3 i92£?OlLJ8g¬i ¬- GAVE $20 TIP . i_iM_,____'_ Hf ' Asked if he called 1.0 Hnpinns _Ii-imp.-~_ M mi: 92i.';;<mi xi Sirnat-ra answered.
_92;m-1;: 1~;0i}.-'i.'~-"»i:r.. ciaiin-ed 8? "'" " "5'm" 'Jnaira ".<i;'aig'hi arn-=nc;" him Sinatra said the paiiking Int.§9292.'i. |. E1: 92.'{_>r'|1 m we aid gflmanager later apologized 1'01 110;'i"» !' ailen.r?am_ Ciarence U16 ?*$$9T1Bd P9616655 d1'i92;'iI1E',Eiigirsii. PH. the singer was b9_ii3y the attendant and promised
'1-aging. :1: would nOl happen again.; i92»iGi';iE: also ch-argeci tiiai. aj Sii"|aLi3 said as he left theiman uiiii Sii1an"P.. later iden-"night club he gave a $20 tiplzified as John Hopkins. body-{Lo the head parking iot attend-jguard of singer Sammy Davisiant.!Jri. pummeled him about the; He insisted Mom was thelhead. SNATRA "LPPSET, Eetual ag%}11"eS?0rd and I pushed mm 1. OV. Sii1aua._ who failed is show, EDGE? qu':S[§;-Iii; Ob; ii;up at a f9292'8~i'JOU1 hearing conrlrmfs jawyel-' Samuei Brody;ildllitd bf Davenport 011 I92/I01]-{Sinatra insisted h&_ma__not in_i§3!§h_§i9m'_§d hf _m5l_1'u¢t@d Blg toxicated and that he tried U0ii 0,11. LO 3ft. ff? _____ ibreak up the scuffle between5 .9? 3n»E':i3_m¢i, wiiu i;cai'i_92I§}{Op!;jn_<; and Mm»an_ ., ,-got min a fight wmb -movzca _ ,
ihern Joni: 9292a92=iin at the Qua"-iiume pai"1_'.', said he was "up-~ /
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Singer Frank Sinatra will
noa be charged witli battery
resulting out of a Hollywood
night club parking lot brawl,
but one oi his buddies will
be accused of assault and
battery and disturbance of
the peace. s, _ ..,_
Chief Deputy City At-ton l F 1 _ - .i / /,1-I ' /15 l ney Edward L. Davenport
decided late this afternoon
that there was not suffi-
cient" evidence to file a
complaint against the thin
singer, but there was
enough against his friend 92
John Big John! Hopkins,
Sammy Davis road mana-
ger.
_ Sinatra denied he used his
fists against parking lot at-5
tendant Edward Moran, 21,
who said that the singer and
iopkins assaulted him with-;
but cause.
Moran asked for a mis-i
demeanor complaint against
both Sinatra and Hopkins.
The city attorney granted the
atter request and is consider-
.I.ng doing the same in Sina-
IIiras case.
According to Sinatra, heihad just come out of the
Moulin Rouge after a charity
show when one attendant
skidded a sports car to within
inches of his leg-
- I berated the youngster
drivilli saying Are you
crazy, Sinatra told Daven-
I port. When I turned away
I another boy" came up ges-
? ticulating with his arms.
Sinatra "said the secondI
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youth pushed him over a car;
adding: . 9. '_""'
I put up -my hands to
ward him off_and the next
, thing I knew, heiwas sort
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INFORMATION OONUlBNIRG
Re your letter dated T/18/B0
You! request 1 a review or the Loo Angela Ottioe
files on SINATRA DRAM MARTIN, EH18! I BANIOOLA and PAUL I.D'Al!A10 or Atlantic City, New Jereey, who have t led an
application tor a financial interest in the cal-Reva Lodge
at Crystal Bay Lake, Tahoe, Nevada
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has been completed, although it will not brpoaaible to
flnilh the review for approximately 30 dean.
For your information at prelent, SAHIGOLA in not
at Attorney, but in Personal llanager for BHAHA. D'AIlA'l'0
ia owner or the 500 Club at Atlantic city, New Jersey.
Upon completion or the rile review, your Office
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FRANK SINATRA
INFORMATION CONCERNING
Re your letter Z/18/GO, requesting information
concerning FRANK SINATRA, HENRY W. SANICOLA, DEAN MARTIN
and PAUL E. D'AMATO of Atlantic City, New Jersey, as well
as any connection between SINATRA and ALBERT MALTZ, a
Hollywood motion picture figure.
Files of the Los Angeles Division contain extensive
references to FRANK SIHATRA. They indicate he became a
prominent entertainer as a singer with the dance band of
the late TOMMY DORSEY at a time when MARIE MC DONALD was
a feature singer with the band. Since that time, he has
engaged in radio, television, night club and motion picture
produetions, has resided in the Les Angeles area, although
he has traveled extensively, and has invested funds, or at
least has allowed his name to be used as an investor, in
several businesses in this area.
During his more recent endeavors, his business
manager has been HENRY W. SANICOLA.
He has maintained a residence at 10051 Valley
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He is divorced from NANCY SINATRA and AVA GARDNER.
The Villa Capri Restaurant, 6735 Yucca, Los Angeles,
lif iie Hollywood area.
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It was in the Villa Capri that MICKEY COHEN engaged
in an altercation in January, 1958, with a waiter for which
COHEN was subsequently convicted and fined although he has
not paid the fine and is currently under prosecution for
Federal Income Tax evasion. _
Confidential information haa been received which is
considered . L, Chicago 00in machine n contact with operator, - eportedly i
FRANK SINATRA and DEAN MARTIN in 1958. About that time,
FRANK SINATRA and DEAN MARTIN were in Madison, Indiana, in
connection with the shooting of a motion picture. According
to confidentiai and reliable information, an aeaociate of
MICKEY COHEN requeated COHEN to make arrangements with FRANK
SINATRA and DEAN MARTIN at Madison, Indiana, so that COHEN's
friend could take them to dinner.
" Information furnished by confidential police informants
on a number of occgeiona has indicated that COHEN keeps FRANK
SINATRAs residence address and telephone number in his phone
books for ready reference,Zhe-b
Aimreceived that
indicated an
inte the summer of 1959, although
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In
nTsnnnmmT.er--____-__-__ Chicago, Illinois,1957, an inquiry was made concerning JOSEPH
and Miami Beach, Florida,
who reportedly had made a trip to Los Angelee. This
inveetigation developed information that a JOSEPH H, FISHER
7601 Miami View Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, was a guest
at the Beverly-wilahire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California,
from 10/16/57, to 10/E3/57, and that he had two telephoneJ
calls charged to his hotel bill on 10/1o and 10/20/57, which
were made to telephone Cestview 11-.1c13: 11111,: te lephone,
at the time, was listed to FRANK SINATRA, 260$ Bowmont
Drive, Beverly Hills, California
it was believed that the JOSEPH
Hotel was JOSEPH FISCHETTI.
Information obtained i
Office in 1958, indicated that J
occupied with FRANK SINATRA
was some indication FISCHETTI hi
FRANK SINATRh's entertainment co
that during the 1946-194? winter
and JOSEPH FISCHETTI both travelat the time, From informition aveilab
H. FISHER registered at the
n confidence by the Riimi
OSEPH FISCHETTI was quite
in Florida and ther
d an ownership interest in
ntracts. It wa reported
season in Florida, §IATA
ed to Cube at about the sem
time but they were not known to have traveled on the same
plane.
On 3/Q0/58, JOSEPH FIS
g W , t _ i r
SINATBA were riding that night.
In June, 1958, confidential information was receivedCHETTI and FRANK SINHTRA
a.m. in a cocktail lounge.
t the Fontainbleau Hotel,
in which FISCHETTI and
from a banking source in Cuba, that TONY MARTIN and FRANK
SIHATRA were among a group of U.
million dollars for the conatruc
gambling oasino;m the Barlovento
A confidential informant or the Loe Angelea DivisionS. residents putting up 10
tion of the onte Garlo and
development in Cuba.1¬
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reported a group of proginent restaurants in the Log Angelee
area are owned by a number of pe
Italian extraction, who have persons not of Italian extraction
fronting the operations for them.
_3iople, many of whom are of
One of the investors
LA 62-3867
reportedly was FRANK SINA$RA and another person having
something to do with the arranging of the sale of one of
the restaurants according to this source, was FAEB SICA.
former los Angsles top hcodln.
- Confidential information was received from the
haw gork Qffice that GENEROSO BEL DUCCA of New York was
rataily stricken in the Fontainhleau Hotel, Miami Beach,
on the evening of 3/23/60. At that time he was at a table
in the company of FRANK SINAERA. It was reported that
TONY BENNETT,another singer, and FRANK SINATRA, attended the
wake in Brooklyn, New Zork, for DEL DUGGA. A source had
advised in confidence that SINATRA's association with DEL
DUCCA dated back many years to a time when DBL DUOCA paid
$10,000.00 to arrange with someone to put'FRANK SINATRA on
the BOB HOPE Show.
A Newark informant, in 1960, reported that JACK
DAVIES, R8 Heat 48th Street, New York City, who died early
in 1960, was the "front man" at the Sands Hotel, Ins Vegas,
Nevada, for the ABNER ZWILLHAN-JOSEPH STAOHERGERARDO CATENA
syndicate and that FRANK SINAERA had a two per cent ownership
investment in the Sands Hotel which originally coat SINATRA
$120,000.00. Later in 1960, SINATRA had a seven per cent
interest in the Hotel and his current address was given as
151 El canine Drive, Beverly Hills, Galifornia. SIHATRA
has FBI No. 3794610.
SINATRA has been openly friendly and in close
association with actors DEAN MARTIN, SAMMY DAVIS, Jr.» PETER
LAWFOR and 30E? EiS0?. They were in the cast of a motionpictggg entitled "Oceans ll", which was filmed in Las Vegas
in . _
According to an article appearing.in the June, 1960
issue of Playboy Magazine, FRANK SINATRA is now in the
theatrical agency business and handles, through nanny 3An1c0LA,
the affairs of mm wurrm, sm-my DAVIS, Jr., TONY nsmsm,
MORT SAHL, ZSA ZSA GABOR and others.
SANICOLA and SINATRA have been very friendly with '
RALPH GAHBINA, manager of the well known boxer 01500 ANDRADE.
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On ll/B/53, a raid was made on an apartment
located at the intersection of Waring Avenue and Kilkea
Drive in Hollywood, California. The raiders apparently
broke into the wrong apartment being confused by separate
entrances to three apartments in the same building, and
hurriedly made their exit. It developed that this raid
was made by private detectives BARNEY RUDISKI and PHILIP
IRWIN, accompanied by FRANK SINATRA, JOE DI MAGGIO, HENRY
SANICOLA and PATSY D'AMORE, The group apparently were
searching for MARILYN MONROE, then the wife of DI MAGGIQ,
the former New York Yankee baseball player. Miss MONROE
was about to obtain a divorce from her husband at the tim
and apparently was in the apartment house but in another
a.p8.Ii;ment at the time oi the raid. This incident, known
as the wrong door raid, received a great ddnl of inquiry
by the Los Arzge lee County Grand Jury. A State Senate
Committee investigated private investigators in March, 1957,
and held hearingiin Ins Angeles. FRANK SINATRL claimed he
did not even appear on the scene at the above described raid
although he was identified by others in the area an having
been present. DI MAGGIO successfully evaded 1 subpoena,
thus did not testify, although he gave an ariidavit to support
the story of SINATRA. 'E
FRANK SINATRA and PETER LAWFORD are reported to be
the owners of Puccini's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Californi
LAWFORD is the brother-in-law of Presidential candidate JOHN
F, KENNEDY.
In the spring of 1960, FRANK SINATRA announced
he had hired ALBERT MALTZ to write the screen play for a
motion picture SINATRA planned to produce. MALTZ was one of
the group of writers in the motion picture industry who
received considerable publicity in 19T, and thie group became
known by the newspaper term "Hollywood Ten". The group
included 10 motion picture personalities who were subsequently
called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in
Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1937. As a result of these
hearings, the 10 individuals were cited and subsequently
convicted for contempt of Congress and eerved prison sentences
Informants have advised that all 10 were or had been members
of the Communist Party in Hollywood.
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After SINATRA made hie announcement that he had
employed ALBERT HKUTZ as a ecreen writer,.coneiderable
public reaction wai re arted in the preee, and "Daily-Variety" magazine for ll/50, contained e publiehed
etatement quoted am follows-over the name of FRANK SINATRA:
"STATEMNT
"In view of the reaction of my family, my friends
and the American public, I have inetructed my attorneye to
make a settlement with ALBERT HADTZ and to inform him he
will not write the eereen play for "The Execution of Private
$lovik".
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"I had thought the maJor coneideration wee whether Q1or not the resulting script would be in the beet intereete R
of the United Statee. Since my conversations with r. EAUTZ ?
had indicated that he had an affirmative, Pro-American "
approach to the etcry, and eince I felt fully capable as
producer of enforcing euch etandarde, I have defended my
hiring of Mr. HAHTZ. Bt the American public has indicated e
it feele the morality of hiring ALBERT HAUTZ is the more
crucial matter, and I will accept this majority opinion."
California number ie
Valley, California
operate eue_e1_naetaurante P
area. claimed Q and night clube in the non Angelee W* * to be worried for fear hie parole officer _ out ~ n
about hie aetivitiee and cauee hie parole to be revoked.einger. Informant vee a 1957 Gldemobile q
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An informant in 1959, advised that REY RYAN,
prominent gambler and real estate owner, utilises one
SEAQQ! HQLFE to sell favors distributed as Ia: Vegas hotels
to their guests. Informant stated that WOLFE frequently
places large bets with gamblers tor such bettors as DEAN
MARTIN and FRAN SINATRA. R
One of the early motion pictures in which FRANK
SINATRA appeared as an actor was entitled Nan with The
Golden Arm". It portrayed the use or narcotics and there
was considerable opposition to the motion picture for that
reason.
' In July, 1959; FRANK SINATRA rented the entire
first floor of the Claridgn Hotel, Atlantic-City, New
Jersey. This space consisted of 10 bedrooes and three parlors.
The only hotel record or the occupants besides SINATRA are
his valet, TONY CONSIGLIO, 120 Chestnut S et. New Haven,
Connecticut; JACK HNANTY, connected vi a music publishing
house in New York city; BOB WAGNER and s wife NATALIE HOOD,
Hollywood motion picture stars; and 3 _ KAKN, prominent
song writer. Although information ual received that SINATRA
was visited by THOMAS LUCHESE. VITO GEN SE and SAM GIANRANA,
investigation was unsuccessful in placing LUCHESE or GIANCANA
at the hotel. Information available at s Angeles indicates
that one person states he saw an individual who meets the
general physical description and appeared similar to the
photograph of SAM GIANCANA.
Information has been received from several confidential '
sources that BEAN HRRTIN and FRANK SINATRA engaged in indecent
a with other persons. One victim in a NSTA investigation
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lye man-i£m¬g;=,§.2-2,,-,9 Is!sns%n...=.....? Sheherself as an actress, hav ng been in the Angeles area
about four to six weeks during which time she had lads the
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&¢qun1ntan¢e.- aed, of FRANK SINATBA. She said that
PPP°I1m8t81Y ,previously, as a friendly and kind
Gesture. invited her to be his guest at the
Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, and she had made this trip
t° LB! V388: and returned accompanied by SINATRA's secretary.
She admitted that while at Las Vegas she had shared the
Presidential Suite at the hotel with FRANK SINATRA and PETER
LAWFORD, however, she stated each had occupied separate
bedrooms and nothing immoral had taken place. She assumed
an arrogant attitude regarding the inquiry being made,
claimed SINATRA had paid for her transportation and all
a enpenees nd she contemplated another trip to
las Vegas
SINATRA has been in numerous altercations in the
los Angeles area, generally in the vicinity of a night club
and during late night or early morning hours.
Much of the information above is furnished from
confidential sources whose identities must be protected -
and the information should not be disseminated in any manner
outside the Bureau until there has first been made a check
with the los Angeles Office to determine whether or not
the material should be disseminated.
Ins Angeles Office files show that FRANCIS ALBERT
SINATRA, aka Frank Sinatra, RBI No. 379K610 was born at Hoboken,
new Jersey, on 1g/13/17, 12/lg/16 or 12/12/15, according to
publications and Selective Service records, the latter two
dates being listed in the Selective Service records of Local
Draft Board No. 19, Hudson County, Jersey city, New Jersey.It is reported that SINATRA left school while a eeniorfin fl
e high school at Hoboken to commence work. His first wi *
nae HANG! BARBEQA and his eeeond uife was AVA QiRDMER= '
Confidentially it was reported that SINAERA was
reJected for military service by his local draft board because
SIHATRA was found by a physician to be suffering from an ear ailment and also*frou eotiongl instability.
The only arrest for SINATRA indicated on his
identification record is by the Shriff's Office. Hackenssok,
New Jsrs§¥= where h was charged in a case under Docket .
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Huber 15228 on 12/25/38, with having seduced a female. He
was released on $1500.00 bond and when it'was ascertained
that the complaintant was a married woman rather than asingle woman as originally charged, the complaint againstSINATRA was withdrawn on lg/T/3 , and in_its place wassubstituted a complaint tiled 12/él/38, charging adultery.SINATBA was released on $500.00 bond. _0n l/ /39, the case
was remanded to the Gran Jury and under Docket Huber
1Bh50 for the Rrosecutor of the Pleas or Bergen county there
appears that a "No Bill" was returned on l/17/39, by the
Grand Jury in connection with the second complaint. In
accordance with the "NO Bill", th complaint was dismissed
in open court of Quarters Sessions of Bergen County, New
Jersey on 1/2%/39.
SINATRA was fingerprinted by the Ios Angeles County
sheriff's office for a gun permit on 1/3Q/#7. -
Considerable information concerning SINATRA refers
to DEAN MARTIN as regards their be of large sums of
1&3
pauvn
los Angeles Office files do not contain other
7 information of particular significance toward DEAN MARTIN.
He was born 6/17/17, at Steubenville, Ohio, according to
available unverified information. He has the nicknames of
"DINO, DEANO and DENO", and is reportedly of Italian extraction.
HENRY w, SANICOLA, aka Henry W. Sanacola, aka Hank
Sanicola, has resided in the Ins Angeles area for a number of
years, and reportedly became acquainted with FRANK SIHATRA
in New Jersey before they moved to California. '
L? Former Ins Angeles criminal informant 'L;?£> in l9h9, stated SANICOLA is a cousin and person m nage of
SINATRA.
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Boulevard, in Los Angeles, and is the father of HENRY SANICOLA
and FRED SANICOLA, d d as business dgentfor mum: smrrna. tated the three
SANICOLAs and TOM O. e ge in'a fight with Ins
Angeles Police Department lieutenant TOMMY BRYAN at the
restaurant, severely injuring the officer so that he was
hospitalized for three days. This incident occurred in
December, 1947, and no prosecution was instituted allegedly
because the officer had no witnesses to present in his behalf.
_ In 1948, it was reported that SINATRA, HENRY SANICOLA
and LARRY RUMMANS, proprietor of two music.stores in Hollywood,
had formed a corporation and intended to sell stock to raise
money for the construction of a "Little Madison Squara§arden"
boxing arena in Ins Angeles. HENRY SANICOLA was to organize
a stable of boxers to be managed for SINATRA. The arena was
not built, reasons unknown.
In 1959. HENRY SANICOLA and RALPH GAMBINA were charged
by the California state Athletic Commission with entering a
"secret" contract with San Francisco boxing manager BERT
BRODOSE, in connection with the management of heavyweight boxer
RUBEN VARGAS. The commission contended GAMBINA and BRODOSE_agreed to split 33% per cent of VARGAS' purse with an additional
1 Q per cent going to SARICOLA, business manager of FRANK
SINATRA. In California it is illegal for a boxer to be paid
less than 2/3 of his puree. The above data is from an article
in the Ins Angeles Mirror-News, 10/20/59, and indicated the
Commission ordered a one year suspension for GAMINA, a veteran
fight manager. A reliable source advised that in 1958, RALPH
GAMBINA was extremely friendly with HENRY SANICOLA. GAMBINA
has been manager of the boxer CISCO ANDRADE.
In 1947, JAMES TARANTINO managed the Hollywood Nita
l4fe Magazine,-described as an expose-type publication in the
entertainment field. Incorporators were said to be HANK SANICOLA
and BARNEY ROSS, former welterweight boxer. TARANTINO had a notor
ious record subsequently in San Francisco, and was ultimately
imprisoned there. TARANTINO in 1949, admitted SINATRA financed
the magazine with $15,000.00,
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At San Franciseo,,JAHE$ TABANTINO beeame a radio~
caster on station KYA,_and in a broadcast in September, 1951,ge called a San Lorenzo teacher, FERN BRUNEB,gp "reportedommun at or Communist aympathizer". She sue him for
al1egedalander and won a Judgmentl. News articles stated
en 12/10/53, the defunct geeeip magazine hellywood Nite
Lqfe" was auctioned off on that date for the eum of $1.00.
The only bidder was said to be GARDINER JOHNSON, attorney
for BRUNER, who had won the Judgment and for his bid JOHNSON
received 98 eharee of stock TARANTINO held in the publishing
company and the other two shares, one each held by HENRY
SANICOLA and BARNEY ROSS.
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B7i! oeraey, rnup u-nmnwu, atlai City, New Jersey, and WILLIAM£57¢;,ZECKEND0RF, president of Webb & Knapp, Inc., have purchased
a large parcel of land in northwest 108 Angeles, which is
scheduled for an expensive real estate development.
Daily Variety" magazine for I/18/60, carried an article
datelined Reno, July 17, indicating FRANK SINATRA, DEAN MARTIN,
HENRY SANICOLA and PAUL SKINNY! D'AHATO have applied tO the
Nevada Gaming Control Board for a combined 575 in the Ca1Neva
ledge, lake Tahoe. Percentages were to be SINATRA, 25%;
smcorm, 16~,-*5; nwu-1.rro, 13 5; MARTIN, 3%. BERT M. GROBER,
major stockholder in Cal-Neva will retain 18% if the deal ie
approved in the August meeting of the board, according to the
article.
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It would appear to be in the best interests of the
Bureau to furnish information contained in urlet on a
confidential basis to the Nevada Gaming Control Board in an
effort to curtail the activities of top hoodlums and their
associates. -
In view of the statement set out in paragraph three,
page eight, urlet, you are requaied to advise this Division
what information in urlet may be disseminated to the Gaming
Control Board on a confidential basis.
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verified, nor was verification attempted."
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page ll, may be disseminated with the additional comment
that verification has not been attempted; =
Information in paragraph 3 page ll relating to
a real estate purchase, if disseminated, should include
an observation that the source cannot be disclosed and
verification has not been attempted. .
- The last paragraph on page ll is data within the
knowledge of local authorities. e
Unless specifically described as material which
can be disseminated in the foregoing analysis, Salt Lake
City should not disseminate other items in Los Angeles e
letter of 11/3/50. , ~
Your attention is directed to two civil suits
pending in State Court at Las Vegas, Nevada against the
Gaming Control Board of Nevada, the State of Nevada, and
others brought by LOUIS THOMAS DRAGNA and MARSHALL_§AIBA0,
aka John Marshall, alleging violation of their civil rights
by restrictive action taken under direction of the Gaming
Control Board, apparently based on information gathered
by the Gaming Control Board from other law enforcement
agencies.For the reason that some legal steps may be taken
by the Gaming'Control Board of Nevada based on information
supplied by the FBI or any other law enforcement agency,
extreme care should be utilized in any dissemination and
it should be made clear to that agency that the FBI has
conducted no investigation of FRAHK szsaras, HEKHY E.
SANICOLA, DEAR MARTIN or PAUL E. D'AMATO, to the knowledge
of the Los Angeles FBI Office, at least, for_an alleged
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Dinner -l
BY EARL WILSON
Broadway Columnist
WASHINGTON--A little
guy helping Frank Sinatra
with his pre-inaugural show
came into a tiny sandwicli
shop at 2 o'clock this morn-.
ing and said: Gimme three
dozen hamburgers."
The two counter girls
gasped.
_Frank," the little man ex-
plained, told me to getabout S75 worth but I g-ured this would be enough.
EVERYTHING is likeI that at Jack Kennedy's inau-
gural-bigger than it's ever
been before.
Sinatra and Peter Lawford
were serying snacks at the
ptatler-Hilton to Hollywood-
tans who came in by char-
;ered plane for the million
iollar show. They will re--
tear-se nearly all night to-nght for Thursday night'sarmory show featuring ev-erybody from Mahalia ack-son to Pat Suzuki to EleanorRoosevelt. . ' '
_President-elect Kennedy'suster, Mrs. Stcgahen Smith.ind her husban contributedzo the enormity of the occa-
sl_on by giving an exclusivedinner at-their Georgetown
home-for about 200. -
_KENNEDY _l'|i_mself wastirelessly exerting every bitJf charm to keep people hap-
py despite inevitable -ticket
Hllxtlps and hotel problems."Even though Nat King!Cole sang and Jimmy Du-
rante impersonated Jimmy-
Durante at Mrs. Smi s din-1neF.'¥nb.i,gF__ was giv'e. - Turn o Page 6; Column 1
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KENNEDY, ACIQRS i
'.Contlnued'fro'm First Page
lavish way that Evelyn
V92{al_s'h McLean used to do it,
JFK was the most ogled
celebrity.
For an hour he sat with
"Sinatra. the Gene Kellys,
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
and his father Joseph Ken-
-nedy - then rushed o with
Secret Service men to shake
hands at a bigger party at-
tended by more stars includ-
ing Gene Barry Bat Master-
son!, Georgie Jessel and
Diana Lynn.
HIS HAIR was mussed
but -he was smiling and he
repeatedly reached out over
four or ve heads to shake
hands with somebody he
knew.
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¢ Mzi I George Jessel introduced!
him eloquently as hand-1
some as FDR. and as cons-l
dent as L'Irurnan. Where-
upon.Kennedy responded inabout 50 words, then said!:
Was it all right, Georgie?"i
Never has the White!
House had so lovely a mis-
tress as Jacqueiine," Jessel
also said, but the First Lady
didn't. hear-itias she was
still in Palm Beach.Around 11 p.m., as Kenne-5dy was leaving that party,
the gave me a handshake andis
remarked, not at allgwear-j
il', I still have to go to.lbllatv York tonight." Q
HIS SISTEIVS party was?so secret-ive that 92Vashing-l
ton society editors couldn t|get an? news about it and;were ivid. One of them
called Sinatra for informa-5
tion, which he gave her. -
r Its a ne thing when a
"Washington society editorihas to get information fromFrank inatra about a socialevent, she said bitterlg.Klermedgr and Miltan erleexc ange clgarsa at ar-ty, nne y giving Berle: a
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Frank Sinatra will produce and
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police chief who was kidnapped and
sigin while on assi nrnent in Uruguayfor the U.S. State separtrnent.
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and Orange Colored Sky to play Sat-
urday at Civic Hall, Richmond.
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Vice-President Spiro T. Ag-
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tn d ' ting the M 'n Antho-
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dedicated by the singer in mem-
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used for post-graduate instruc-
tion, hospital stall training andDr. Roger Egeberg, assistant
secretary of Health Educatiol
and Welfare and head of the
Federal Public Health Service
and pioneer heart transplan
surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey
Houston, also will attend th<
ceremonies at 10:30 a.m.
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BY TED THACKREY JR. .
-mm affwrllerE-1'ani: SiH3lF;2lnOUCBd his rc-
lirement from show business and
from public life Tuesday.
l ln a letter written at his home in
Y 'DQ|r.- qI'92I'iI92I!'EI H-ts, 'A.-...;|......-_ A .-..._._1a an yaaub-3| bub nuauculy AWd!U-
winning actor and Singer said that
his decision was "final? and that it
included participation in political af-
fairs as well as entertainment. -
For over three decades, he
wrote. I have had the great and
l 800d fortune to enjoy a rich, reward-
ing and deeply satisfying career as
an entertainer and public figure."
Those years, "fruitful, busy, up-
tight, loose, sometimes boisterous,
occasionally sad, but always excit-
ing, he said, nevertheless allowed
him little opportunity for reec-
tion, reading, self-examination and
that need which every thinkinginan
has for a fallow period.fie said he hoped to spena rnor-"etipne with his faintly, 't.h
close friends and to do
"some writing, perhaps
even . . . teaching. p
The letter, addressed to
a New York Daily News
columnist called Suzy, was
later confirmed by a Sina-
tra spokesman in Los An-
geles, who added that-he
had not been notified in
advance oi the singer's
I I Imnatra xumseu re-
mained in seclusion in
Palm Springs, in the golf-
course. home he shares
with his mother, Mrs. An-
thony Sinatra.
The singer, .55, said his
retirement would be effec-
tive "immediately" and ad-
ded that there would be no
further announcements.
His career, which began
with occasional singing
engagements as part of a
group when he was a teen-
ager, grew to major'pro-
ager in New Jersey, grew
to major proportions dur-
ing his early years as a
da1it!l!"Ua'rtti vocal1s' E "'He a§%ared rst with
rry es, tliEi'l"Witi'1
Tommy Dorsey in-the late
l930s. but shot to stardom
in the years immediately
preceding World War II
with specialized vocalssuch as "I'll Never Smile
Again and The Music
S pod. 1*-u, lng, screaming
bobby-soxers mobhgihlg
stagewppearances at the
New York Paramount and
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propelled him to Holly-
wood. There he appeared
as a singer in numerous
successful but undistin-
guished motion pictures.
His first marriage, to
|ch_ildhood sweetheart t
;Nancy Barbato, dissolved' in--the yeasty atmosphere
of movie-making and per-
-psonal fame, but he re-
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Nancy, recently was mar-
ried atchis desert home.
Sinatra's career took
what looked at the time
like a permanent nosedive
in the early 19505, when
his second marriage, to ac-
tress Ava Gardner, also
was failing.
But the nonsinging role
of Maggio in the 1953 film,
From Here to Eternity"
--for which he won that
year's Oscar in the sup-
porting role categoryes-
tablished him as an accom-
plished actor. His singing
popularity also returned
as he developed a newstyle. ' - '
Arguments with the
press," night club brawls
and speculation about un-
d e rworldi involvement:
kept him "'a'colorful' figure
and before the_ public. A
third marriage, to Mia
Farrow in 1966. lastedHi-| °m7'*"°"-Y/[932-_. /
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I tives to come out of reti t
year to star in T , ttlei
Prince," a 30-year-o d -
-ii-_sHter about a cynic lanel
;pilot who crashes in the
It-inc-es him that lite is worth liv.
llllg.. l Although specifying that Sina-92tra ha-s not signed a contract,
Paramount sources are cordi-
ldent that Sinatra will return to
em-k because of ms fondnetltor a dozen songs written for ithe film by the reunited team Ofl
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick
;,L|.tt.h_..2;-inoe" could,-be_the1r!. rt.ltand 1 9-year-old boy who con-'
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