2: Frank Sinatra & The Daisy
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Alicia tells the story of the feud between our man Nick and Frank Sinatra, which led to a bizarre altercation at The Daisy, the “it” place for Hollywood’s movers and shakers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sources:
Eighty-Two Very Good Years (newyorker.com)
Excerpt: Craig Brown on Frank Sinatra, Dominick Dunne, and Phil Spector (vanityfair.com)
The Daisy in Beverly Hills (martinostimemachine.blogspot.com)
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra (esquire.com)
Dominick Dunne: After The Party (amazon.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.werew. Wondery. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn, friends. My name is Alicia, and I'm your hostess on this journey of all things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:18.2 | Thank you, thank you for your terrific and overwhelming response to the first |
| 0:22.8 | episode. It means the world. And to show my appreciation today to you, I'm giving y'all a little |
| 0:29.3 | extra something back for the sweet Valentine you gave to me. It's a bonus done and done, y'all, |
| 0:36.1 | a little extra extra. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, we're going to focus on the history of the feud of Dominic Dunn and Frank Sinatra, |
| 0:53.2 | which will lead us by the end of the episode to the Daisy, L.A.'s first dinner club discotheque and the scene of all kinds of Hollywood history. |
| 0:55.4 | Let's investigate. In episode one, we talked about Dominic's first act. |
| 1:12.0 | Much of that made in Hollywood with the wonderful times and the rotten times too. |
| 1:17.6 | The intersection of this period in his life certainly does have ups and downs. |
| 1:22.3 | One of those downs famously involving Frank Sinatra, paying the matra D of the daisy to punch Dominic Dunn in the face. |
| 1:31.5 | How do we get to that night in September 1966? |
| 1:36.2 | Dominic Dunn originally meets Frank Sinatra when Nick is working behind the scenes on an adaptation |
| 1:41.7 | of Thornton Wilders' Our Town, for this television series called |
| 1:45.7 | Producers Showcase. This is TV in 1955. Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint are cast as the |
| 1:53.0 | teenagers who will fall in love. This showcases the precipice of both of these stars breaking |
| 1:59.3 | out in their careers. Frank Sinatra is cast in the production |
| 2:04.2 | in the role of stage manager. This producer's showcase is directed by Delbert Mann, |
| 2:10.6 | who Dominic Dunn will describe as a gentle, wonderful man. Dominic will continue, and Frank |
| 2:16.9 | Sinatra was surrounded by those certain types of guys. |
| 2:22.5 | The poor director, Delbert Man, wants to give Frank Sinatra notes after the run-through about |
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