Gianni Russo on Frank Sinatra Trying to Kill Himself By Sticking Head in the Oven (Part 13)

quite a life quite a life cuz and I'm doing the Godfather ya know I mean they're still going because after the Godfather you're at a small flashback in The Godfather two vials you were in rush hour 2 you were in a Seabiscuit League any given Sunday we're gonna give it some day my movie I'm just gonna say that what a great movie to be a part of oh yeah no I have had I've done 200 hours of television involved in 46 films and now I'm about to do my life and a film I can't believe it yeah all was someone who's never taken acting class never uh you know did Broadway leading up to his first film nothing you just kind of bluffed your way through the whole thing and the only person can make this dick snack statement ball and Brenda was my only acting teacher Frank Sinatra's my only singing teacher and Marilyn Monroe taught me how to be a man at 16 alright cuz uh Frank Sinatra is the The Godfather of one of your kids yeah whose shadow yeah amazing my night Leon I now have nine sons two daughters and ten grandsons that insane twenty what do you think no that's insane uh what do you think was your greatest Frank Sinatra story ever all of them well when he was teaching me how to sing he said you know I want to sing come to the house sometime so I called Dorothy I said when's he gonna be home so he said he said he normally comes on Sundays on Mondays I said well he told me to come down it's all right so she calls me says come Tuesday and Wednesday at this time you never got up took two or three o'clock and she said bring a bathing suit I said I don't want to swim I don't know anything she's Springer Benson so I get to the house my my I have my old crew that down the road staying I wasn't staying at his house I was just home for lessons and I used to go into Palm Springs all the time because they'd leave Vegas go there in the fall is always nice and Palm Springs so I get there and I think it's name is Henry it says a mr. did you bring your bathing suit I said what's with this bathing suit I said I want to sweat him he says you got to go swimming I said Kauai he said go out to the beach the Cabana out there his robe Ayden's are all clean for so here comes Sgt with a robe on he said get in the pool ice Frank what is this he says you want to learn how to sing you got to learn how to breathe is you know why I could sustain my notes and phrase that way I do because Tommy Dorsey I never knew when he was taking a breath he taught me how to do that he's now I want you to submerge yourself underwater and I'm gonna time you and in the next two or three days we're gonna expand your lungs so you can start sustaining notes that was my singing lesson then the last night we get drunk him and I and we just reminiscing and I made him a promise cuz he always thought I could sing so funny I made him a promise that whenever you do his show I want you to sing this song cuz I was with him a couple of times when he broke down over a Oh God Ava gone he tried to kill himself you know I don't know if you know that he tried to kill himself in his agents apartment up on 72nd Street no they found him with his head in the yard and he destroyed his vocal cords for about a year and a half everybody thought his career was done but he needed to get that picture Here to Eternity and the only way to get it was to convince Cohan to give it to many wouldn't that's a fact that's the part of the Godfather that he hated because they they look like their mom got it for him and it was Ava Gardner Ava Gardner went away with Cohen for three days in Acapulco so he could have his way with her but if she made him give him the part and when he found out about that that's why the song is all the way and he taught me the song and I sing it at every show and I dedicated to him and Ava got in every show

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Length: 4min 36sec (276 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020