Featured Project: SINATRA: Dark Star
1 x 90’ and 1 x 2hrs for BBC/A&E/ZDF/Arte
Women wanted him. Men wanted to be him.
Frank Sinatra was one of the greatest singers that ever lived. He was the essence of cool. He was the first pop idol, the first singer to trigger mass hysteria. He had a rock & roll lifestyle before rock & roll. He seduced impossibly gorgeous women. He was courted by both Democratic and Republican Presidents. He was an American Icon.
But his career was boosted and nearly broken by his Mafia connections. We reveal that he was closer to Mafia leaders than anyone supposed, and that the mob may even have seriously pondered murdering him when he failed to get JFK to go easy on organised crime. But did such a supremely talented man really need the Mafia? For decades, Sinatra tried to hide his mob connections. This is a story that in his lifetime could never have been told.