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Martini
and Murder
Shirley
MacLaine starred with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in Some Came
Running. Here is a
fascinating story of Frank Sinatra’s powerful personality from her
book, "My Lucky Stars".
“During
an afternoon shoot, Frank invited me for a drink in his trailer.
The assistant director came to the trailer to call us to the
set.
“We’re
having a drink,” said Frank, “because it’s ‘tini time.”
“But,
Mr Sinatra,” protested the assistant director, “we are behind
schedule and we need to make up time.”
“How
far behind are we?” asked Frank.
“Two
weeks,” answered the assistant director.
“Say,
buddy. You have a
script handy?” asked Frank.
I
knew what was coming
The
assistant director handed him his script.
Frank counted off about twenty pages and then ripped them out
of the script.
“There,
pal,” he said. “Now
we’re on schedule.”
The
assistant director fled, not wanting to put us ahead of schedule.
The
pages never went back in. It was just like Frank.
When he went on record that something was over, it was over.
The writers had to piece the story together somehow.
frank realized later he had cut one of my big scenes, so he
threw the end of the picture to me.
“Let
the kid get in the way of the bullet,” he said to Sol Siegel.
“That’ll
make the audience feel sorry for her because she tried to save my
life. Might get her a
nomination out of it.”
He
was right. I got my
first Academy Award nomination for Some Come Running.”
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