The photo that apparently links Frank Sinatra to the Mafia: Pictured with the singer are Tommy 'Fatso' Marson, Don Carlo Gambino 'The Godfather', and Jimmy 'The Weasel' Fratianno
Sinatra called Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno a dirty fink.
The plausibility of author Mario Puzo was to blame.
In his book and film of The Godfather, the flagging career of a singer named Johnny Fontane is rescued when he gets an important film part — thanks to a blood-dripping racehorse’s head left by the Mafia as a warning in the studio boss’s bed.
To many people, Fontane just had to be a dead ringer for Frank Sinatra.
Everyone knew Sinatra’s casting in the 1953 film From Here To Eternity led to a desperately needed revival of his fortunes. Everyone had heard the rumours of his Mafia connections. Puzo was of southern-Italian ancestry and steeped in his subject. His take in The Godfather, though fictional, seemed confirmation of a sort.
Numerous writers have put considerable effort into cobbling up a case that the Mob really was behind Frank getting the Oscar-winning part. In reality, though, he got it by a different sort of graft — his sheer persistence in pestering the studio, the producer, the director and the screen writer with a non-stop flood of telegrams over many months staking his claim. Writes James Kaplan.
Some say the little place his parents ran was a Mafia hotbed, frequented by big Mob names like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano, born in the same Sicilian village as Frank’s grandfather. To Read more Click here: Frank Sinatra dangerous flirtation with the Mafia | Mail Online
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