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20
“Frank Sinatra’s now practically”:
Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 30, 1953.

21
“Frank Sinatra has decided”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 10, 1953.

22
“In what would become”:
Jacobs and Stadiem,
Mr. S
, p. 90.

23
“I slept in the same
room
”:
George Jacobs, in discussion with the author, March 2009.

24
“He’s a dead man”:
Jacobs and Stadiem,
Mr. S
, p. 21.

25
“head down, all alone”:
Ibid., p. 36.

26
“When I opened”:
Ibid., p. 46.

27
“who didn’t seem ex”:
Ibid., p. 48.

28
“rococo New Jersey style”:
Ibid.

29
“The correct way”:
Ibid.

30
“There’s nothing like”:
Associated Press, Oct. 12, 1953.

31
“Everything is fine”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 20, 1953.

32
“I can’t eat”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 225.

33
“Hollywood’s still betting”:
Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Oct. 21, 1953.

34
“Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 226.

35
“When Sinatra is in Las Vegas”:
Pignone,
Sinatra Treasures
, p. 104.

36
“The object was”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 241.

37
“Frank! Is your marriage”:
Ibid., p. 227.

38
“There is positively”:
Shaw,
Twentieth-Century Romantic
, p. 180.

CHAPTER 37
SOURCE NOTES

  
1
“I was a stranger”:
Lyrics from “Foggy Day,” words by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin (New York: Gershwin, 1937).

  
2
“If I wasn’t conducting”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 232.

  
3
“Ava taught him”:
Hamill,
Why Sinatra Matters
, p. 177.

  
4
“I AM DESPERATELY”:
Server,
Ava Gardner
, p. 270.

  
5
“Yeah, he’s here”:
Ibid., p. 272.

  
6
“Eventually they got”:
Ibid.

  
7
“Ten years ago”:
International News Service, Nov. 9, 1953.

  
8
“Melissa Weston Bigelow”:
Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Nov. 13, 1953.

  
9
“Well, that washes”:
Hal Humphrey, syndicated column, Nov. 11, 1953.

10
“You would not pick”:
James Kaplan, “The King of Ring-a-Ding-Ding,”
Movies Rock
(a supplemental publication of
Vanity Fair
), Dec. 2007.

11
“Sinatra’s father says”:
Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 24, 1953.

12
“I would rather write”:
Kaplan, “King of Ring-a-Ding-Ding.”

13
“When Frank ate”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 229.

14
“RUMOR MILL IS MUM”:
Wire service report, Nov. 21, 1953, transcribed from
Huntington (Pa.) Daily News
, Nov. 23, 1953.

15
“I was happier”:
Jordan, “Living with Miss G.”

16
“F. Sinatra will spend”:
In New York with Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 19, 1953.

17
“Ava Gardner on Thanksgiving”:
Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Nov. 26, 1953.

18
“You know, Harold”:
The Golden Years of Classic Television: The Colgate Comedy Hour, Vol. 1
(Miracle Picture, 2005), DVD.

19
“ev’ry time your lips”:
Lyrics from “That Old Black Magic,” words by Johnny Mercer, music by Harold Arlen (New York: Famous Music, 1942).

20
“SINATRA ADMITS HURTING WRIST”:
Lubbock (Tex.) Morning Avalanche
, Dec. 10, 1953.

21
“I think it’s a good song”:
Nancy Sinatra,
American Legend
, p. 114.

22
“Fairy tales”:
Lyrics from “Young at Heart,” words by Carolyn Leigh, music by Johnny Richards (New York: Sunbeam Music, 1954).

23
“I could have told you”:
Lyrics from “I Could Have Told You So,” words by Carl Sigman, music by James Van Heusen (New York: Music Sales, 1953).

CHAPTER 38
SOURCE NOTES

  
1
“The breakup of the sultry”:
Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel
, Nov. 11, 1953.

  
2
“F. Sinatra is taking”:
Edith Gwynn, syndicated column, Dec. 1, 1953.

  
3
“Of all Greenson’s”:
Spoto,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 427.

  
4
“Special Problems in Psychotherapy”:
Ibid., p. 426.

  
5
“It wouldn’t surprise me”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Dec. 16, 1953.

  
6
“I’ll be so happy”:
United Press, Dec. 23, 1953.

  
7
“I’m going to spend”:
Ibid.

  
8
“She was not a little”:
Server,
Ava Gardner
, p. 283.

  
9
“AVA GARDNER”:
Newport (R.I.) Daily News
, Dec. 30, 1953.

10
“trying to work”:
Shaw,
Twentieth-Century Romantic
, p. 182.

CHAPTER 39

  
1.
Who, to complete the slightly absurd polygon, would marry Walter Chiari’s former fiancée, Lucia Bosé, later that year.

SOURCE NOTES

2
“You may have heard”:
Earl Wilson, syndicated column, transcribed from
Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder
, Jan. 23, 1954.

3
“in a chilly studio”:
Wilson,
Sinatra
, p. 115.

4
“He
literally
moved”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 233.

5
“I come home”:
Ibid., p. 235.

6
“Nancy Sinatra’s pals”:
Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Jan. 24, 1954.

7
“You’re the sittin’-est”:
Gardner,
Ava
, p. 221.

8
“I like a little”:
Server,
Ava Gardner
, p. 284.

9
“On the morning”:
Ibid. 693
“I saw Frankie”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Jan. 30, 1954.

10
“craved class”:
Jacobs and Stadiem,
Mr. S
, p. 50.

11
“Sinatra was like”:
Ibid., p. 40.

12
“I stayed a night”:
Bacall,
By Myself and Then Some
, p. 241.

13
“I had to perform”:
Gardner,
Ava
, p. 348.

14
“When we got there”:
Sciacca,
Sinatra
, p. 171.

15
“Frank Sinatra—who’s collecting”:
Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 8, 1954.

16
“There’s a tug-of-war”:
Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 12, 1954.

17
“QUADRANGLE”:
New York Daily News
wire report, Feb. 16, 1954.

18
“Frank Sinatra and Artie Shaw”:
Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Feb. 26, 1954.

19
“I’m a saloon singer”:
Bob Thomas, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

20
“What does Ava”:
Laura Lee, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

CHAPTER 40

  
1.
Fred Zinnemann, who had won the Best Director Oscar, also said as much: “The picture never could have won these honors without Montgomery Clift. He was the heart of the whole movie” (United Press, March 26, 1954).

SOURCE NOTES

  
2
“an ocean’s roar”:
Lyrics from “Day In, Day Out,” words by Johnny Mercer, music by Rube Bloom (New York: Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, 1939).

  
3
“In working out”:
Shaw,
Entertainer
, p. 27.

  
4
“Just for the record”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 11, 1954.

  
5
“Ava was sure”:
Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, March 15, 1954.

  
6
“Frank Sinatra’s excuse”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.

  
7
“Frank Sinatra off to Italy”:
Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, March 18, 1954.

  
8
“Frank Sinatra, an intimate”:
Wisconsin State Journal
, March 16, 1954.

  
9
“Sinatra’s participation”:
Westbrook Pegler, syndicated column, March 16, 1954.

10
“Willie Moretti”:
Ibid.

11
“Bring back that Oscar”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 238.

12
“To Daddy—all our love”:
Ibid., p. 237.

13
“After being exiled”:
Walter Winchell, syndicated column, March 23, 1954.

14
“NEWCOMER IS HOT FAVORITE”:
El Paso Herald-Post
, March 24, 1954.

15
“Tonight’s the night”:
Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 25, 1954.

16
“Nominees for the best”:
Twenty-sixth Academy Awards broadcast, 1954.

17
“A peculiar thing”:
Shaw,
Twentieth-Century Romantic
, p. 185.

18
“Unbelievable”:
Twenty-sixth Academy Awards broadcast, 1954.

19
“That’s it”:
Kelley,
His Way
, p. 239.

20
“I wanted to thank”:
Hopper and Brough,
Whole Truth and Nothing But
, p. 47.

21
“I ducked the party”:
Shaw,
Entertainer
, p. 32.

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