Sammy and Dino Episode 6: The Rat Pack

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the early 40s, both Dean and Sammy idolized Frank Sinatra. 20 years later, they became Sinatra’s cohorts in the Rat Pack, and, through Vegas gigs and increasingly disposable movies, the trio set a standard for grown men behaving badly that’s still influential today. In this episode, we’ll reveal what the Rat Pack’s Vegas shows were really like -- racist, homophobic, misogynist warts and all. We’ll also discuss the web of corruption linking these performers to the Mafia and the Kennedys, culminating in the death of an actress, and the death of the pretense that the Rat Pack racket was all innocent fun.

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0:55.3	such fairь,
1:19.0	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
1:30.6	the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
1:37.6	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series,
1:45.8	Sammy and Dino.
1:49.8	And the name is all candy man and bow jack, the singer, dancer, actor, comedian, and impressionist, and an author.
1:59.8	Here is Mr. Wonderful.
2:02.8	Sammy Davis Jr., my most important meal is breakfast.
2:05.8	If I'm not home by then, my wife really gets angry.
2:09.8	Dean Martin is just a little bit lazy, prefers golf to work.
2:14.8	Yeah, yeah.
2:15.8	Ladies and gentlemen, hang watchers.
2:27.8	January 1960, the sans casino, Las Vegas.
2:33.8	The marquee outside red Dean Martin and big letters.
2:37.8	And under that and smaller letters, maybe Frank, maybe Sammy.
2:43.8	If you made it into the copar room at the sans on one of a couple dozen nights that winter, you might get to see all three perform.
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