In Lady Blue Eyes, Barbara Sinatra claims that Marx was considered too young to perform with his brothers, and it wasn't until Gummo joined the Army that Marx was asked to join the act as a last-minute stand-in at a show in Texas.

John Milius claims he was requested to write the screenplay for Frank Sinatra in three weeks ; he wrote his first draft in 21 days.

* Jonathan Gould, in a 2007 book, Can't Buy Me Love, claims Lennon wrote the song in response to an official press release promoting a Sinatra TV special as a show for those who were " tired of kid singers wearing mops of hair thick enough to hide a crate of melons.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

* 31 July: Nine people, some of them American students, were killed when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt.

Sinatra benefited when Eli Wallach, who was originally cast as Maggio, dropped out to appear on Broadway instead.

" Newsweek also stated that " Frank Sinatra, a crooner long since turned actor, knew what he was doing when he plugged for the role of Maggio.

He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra that would endure Sinatra's early 1970s conversion to the Republican party and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.

Further revisions were made when Frank Sinatra objected to the generally downbeat tone of the piece.

At 29, McQueen got a significant break when Frank Sinatra removed Sammy Davis, Jr., from the film Never So Few after Davis supposedly made some mildly negative remarks about Sinatra in a radio interview, and Davis's role went to McQueen.

* In the 1988 movie Coming to America, Eddie Murphy's character Clarence states that Frank Sinatra once told him that Joe Louis was 137 years old, supposedly his age when he lost to Rocky Marciano.

Martin famously flopped at the Riobamba, a high class nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, but it was the setting for their meeting.

On one occasion, he infuriated Sinatra when he turned to him and muttered, " Frank, what the hell are we doing up here?

In 1968, Bisset gained mainstream recognition when she replaced Mia Farrow for the role of Norma MacIver in The Detective ; Farrow's marriage to co-star Frank Sinatra had just ended, and the role was given to Bisset.

In the early 1980s, Ronstadt was criticized by some ( mainly rock critics ) for playing two concerts, as a replacement for Frank Sinatra, in South Africa under apartheid, at a time when Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sinatra, Shirley Bassey and Cher were also performing there.

Many of the older artists were dropped when Sinatra sold the label to Warner Bros. Records in early 1963 due to insufficient sales.

On July 31, 2002, a member of a terrorist cell detonated a bomb during lunch hour at the University's " Frank Sinatra " cafeteria when it was crowded with staff and students.

Hefti's influence on the Basie sound was so successful, his writing for the band so strong, that Basie used his arranging talents even when recording standard jazz tunes with the likes of Frank Sinatra.

Kershner was eventually hired when Frank Sinatra was attached to the title role.

But when Sinatra eventually left the film, so did Kershner.

The character of Tony Polar, the mentally impaired singer, was rumored to be based on Frank Sinatra, but Susann herself was quoted in her biography Lovely Me saying that she got the idea for Polar when she tried to interview Dean Martin after one of his shows ; he was too engrossed in a comic book to pay attention to her.

He had already won a Tony Award for his performance in the original Broadway production, in 1957 ; when Willson adapted his story for the screen, he insisted on Preston's participation over the objections of Jack L. Warner, who had wanted Frank Sinatra for the role.

The Kingston Trio was responsible for 15 per cent of Capitol's total sales when Capitol also recorded among many other popular artists Frank Sinatra and Nat " King " Cole.

" A recording of the concert became publicly available for the first time in 2001, when Kilgallen and Sinatra were both dead.

Bogart was uneasy with Gardner because she had just split from " rat-pack " buddy Frank Sinatra and was carrying on with bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.

In the liner notes of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, Nancy In London, Sinatra states that she was " scared to death " of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: " Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?

These include the Emmy-nominated 1966 Frank Sinatra special A Man and His Music-Part II, and the 1967 NBC Emmy Award nominated for ' Special Classification of Individual Achievements ' by choreographer David Winters TV special Movin ' With Nancy, in which she appeared with Lee Hazlewood, her father and his Rat Pack pals Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., with a cameo appearance by her brother Frank Sinatra, Jr. and guest star appearance by West Side Story dancer David Winters.

In 1971, she signed with RCA, resulting in three albums: Nancy & Lee – Again ( 1971 ), Woman ( 1972 ), and a compilation of some of her Reprise recordings under the title This Is Nancy Sinatra ( 1973 ).

In 1985, she wrote the book Frank Sinatra, My Father.

Sinatra told Jay Leno on a 1995 Tonight Show that her daughters gave their approval, but her mother said she should ask her father before committing to the project.

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.

Sinatra now hosts a weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, where she shares her personal insights about her father.

After this short romance, she dated Frank Sinatra, Jr. who, at the time, was more than twice her age.

Gardner divorced Sinatra in 1957 and headed to Spain where she began a friendship with writer Ernest Hemingway.

Although Gardner could afford her medical expenses, Sinatra wanted to pay for her to visit a specialist in the United States, and she allowed him to make the arrangements for a medically staffed private plane.

In 1957, Loren's star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with the films Boy on a Dolphin ( her U. S. film debut ), Legend of the Lost with John Wayne, and The Pride and the Passion in which she starred opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.

After her appearance as lust incarnate in the hit Bedazzled, she returned to the U. S. and appeared in the Western film Bandolero !, with James Stewart and Dean Martin, which was followed by the private-eye drama Lady in Cement with Frank Sinatra.

After several supporting roles, she was a lead performer in such films as Thousands Cheer ( 1943 ), Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat ( 1951 ) and Kiss Me Kate ( 1953 ) ( both with Howard Keel ).

In 1982, she released a version of the Nancy Sinatra hit song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '".

In 1993, she contributed the song " In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning " for the film Sleepless In Seattle and recorded the same song in combo with " Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry " with Frank Sinatra for his album Duets.

In 1957, she played a socialite who helps a floundering singer and comedian ( Frank Sinatra ) redeem himself in The Joker Is Wild.

That same year, Parker appeared in Otto Preminger's film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm, in which she plays Zosh, the supposedly invalid wife of a morphine addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine ( Frank Sinatra ).

However, she achieved stardom on the popular primetime soap opera Peyton Place as naive, waif-like Allison MacKenzie, a role she later abandoned at the urging of first husband Frank Sinatra.

That same year she played a second lead in the highly successful The Man with the Golden Arm with Frank Sinatra.