Posted on 07/22/2006 6:18:34 PM PDT by blam
'A second shot rang out. Both men were dead. Now I could never be known as Frank Sinatra's daughter'
By Douglas Thompson
(Filed: 23/07/2006)Page 1 of 9
In February 1947, Frank Sinatra, cooler than his eyes were blue, flew into Havana to perform for an audience not only tougher than his usual crowd, but far deadlier.
The engagement would change Sinatra's life, and do much to shape, in the years that followed, the world's idea of who he was. The Cuban interlude, a darkly Runyonesque affair, rich in sex and menace, would have an equally lasting effect on a woman who, until now, has lived on the sidelines of the singer's legend.
Julie Sinatra, who, as was revealed in yesterday's Telegraph Magazine, believes herself to be the singer's secret daughter, was only four when Frank, then 31, checked into the Hotel Nacional, an elegant pile with eclectic architecture on the Havana seafront.
For the ensuing week, the hotel would host a conference of leading Mafiosi, chaired by the ageing but still supreme capo Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano.
Luciano, a Sicilian-born ex-pimp whose nickname arose from his talent for surviving assassination attempts, wanted Sinatra to perform for his friends, who notably included Meyer Lansky, the mob's diminutive financial genius, Albert "The Executioner" Anastasia, its rub-out specialist, and Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, the head of the powerful New York mob.
Frank, by most contemporary accounts, had no idea what he was getting into, but, in all likelihood, even if he had known, the offer to sing for Lucky and the wiseguys was not one that he could refuse.
According to Julie, the bizarre events that subsequently unfolded hold the key, not only to the mysteries of her own past, but to the puzzlingly ambivalent relationship that Sinatra maintained with the Mafia for the...
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang?
this will open up a can of toads ... what's next, A+Bert is JFK's secret uncle?
Was this the trip Frank carried all the money?
Don't let all the secrets out in one night.
LOL
LOL. A+ will tell you that he is JFK.
Deep in the Hurtgen Forest,
Julie Lyma was 53 when her mother told her that her father was Frank Sinatra. Then, as a lifetime of clues about her true paternity seemingly fell into place, she began her quest to meet the man who never even knew she existed.
Images courtesy of Julie Sinatra
http://tinyurl.com/qtk37
LOL
Dunno, but she sure does look a lot like Nancy Sinatra in that pic.
Too bad Sinatra spent his life covering what could have been so easily fixed in his later years with the RAT PACK.
Leonard Sues, a trumpet player for Mickey Rooney pushes Dorothy Lyma into the pool ( 1940):
And here Sues ducks Dorothy in the pool. Julie's mom was surely a beauty and propably Sinatra's first and only true love:
I later had a brush with Frank (and Buddie Hacket and someone else I don't remember) when I was sitting in my Army uniform at the counter in the restaurant/coffee shop at the Sahara Hotel,Casino in Las vegas in Dec.1966 . We were about the only people in there at that time of the morning when the waitress came to me and told me, someone who wishes to remain anonymous would like to buy me whatever I wanted from the menu...I had a milkshake.
Working with the band leader Tommy Dorsey, the 24-year-old singer was on America’s musical radar. He set himself up in a luxury suite, charging the bill to Dorsey, and installed a blonde actress, Alora Gooding. Their affair continued for some time. Nancy found out about the other woman, and had special reason to feel betrayed. Four months earlier she had given birth to a daughter, named Nancy after her mother.
http://tinyurl.com/8nynh
Neat.
Sinatra and Monroe. Here were stars who shone with equal brilliance. It seems clear that there was some sort of affair, at a time when Marilyn was an emotional basket case. Frank had become solicitous during the collapse of her marriage to Arthur Miller. He presented her with a white poodle that she christened Maf, as in Mafia. In February 1961, when she was released after a spell in New York’s Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Frank allowed her to use his house in Coldwater Canyon. The following year, during the last miserable months of her life, Marilyn would see a good deal of Frank. In late July 1962, he photographed her in a state of distress at the Cal-Neva Lodge. Days later, at 36, Marilyn would be dead.
http://tinyurl.com/8nynh
The beauty in distress is Alora Gooding, stand-in for June Preisser, and the villain about to push in the stand-in is Leonard Sues, one of Mickey's trumpet-playing pals, who also appears in the new picture.
A villain to the last, Sues is now trying to duck Miss Gooding. Mickey likes to get his musician pals into the cast of his pictures so he can have jam sessions on the sets -- where he always has a piano.
ping
She would merengue and do the cha-cha/ And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
Interesting and very plausible.
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