Welcome to Dun & Done Friends. My name is Alicia, and I'm your hostess on this journey of all

things Dominic Dunn. Thank you, thank you for your terrific and overwhelming response to the first

episode. It means the world. And to show my appreciation today to you, I'm giving y'all a little

extra something back for the sweet Valentine you gave to me.

It's a bonus done and done, y'all, a little extra extra.

Today, we're going to focus on the history of the feud of Dominic Dunn and Frank Sinatra,

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. Let's investigate. In episode one, we talked about Dominic's first act.

Much of that made in Hollywood with the wonderful times and the rotten times too.

The intersection of this period in his life certainly does have ups and downs. One of those downs famously

involving Frank Sinatra, paying the matra D of the daisy to punch Dominic Dunn in the face. How do we get

to that night in September 1966? Dominic Dunn originally meets Frank Sinatra when Nick is working behind the scenes on an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's R-Town for this television series called Producer's Showcase.

This is TV in 1955. Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint are cast as the teenagers who will fall in love.

This showcases the precipice of both of

these stars breaking out in their careers. Frank Sinatra is cast in the production in the role

of stage manager. This producer showcase is directed by Delbert Mann, who Dominic Dunn will

describe as a gentle, wonderful man.

Dominic will continue, and Frank Sinatra was surrounded by those certain types of guys.

The poor director, Delbert Man, wants to give Frank Sinatra notes after the run-through about

stage direction and such. No criticism,

just, this is the cost to doing business in live television. All of Frank's guys block any notes

from actually getting to Sinatra. Just tell us, they say. There are unpleasant exchanges. Please forgive poor Delbert man for trying to plan a live 90-minute television program. Frank Sinatra doesn't even attend the dress rehearsal. The production has to use a stand-in. But sure enough, one-take Frank Sinatra comes in and delivers a perfect

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