EFE
- Stormy, volatile, depressed, great. So was Frank Sinatra, Voice, an icon of the twentieth century, which was in Spain between 1950 and 1964, the first time chasing Ava Gardner sales and tablados in visits that ended badly
, because I had to leave country charged with “contempt of authority”.
So reveals the book “Sinatra never go back to that damned country.” Chronicles the passage through Spain myth, singer and actor (Hoboken, NJ, 1915 – Los Angeles, 1998), written by Spanish journalist Francisco Reyero, in the year that is going to meet the centenary of his birth -the 12th December-.
Published by the Lara Foundation, the book is a journalistic narrative, with extensive documentation and photos of Hoboken, Los Angeles or the National Library of Spain, full of details, with more than 70 interviews and testimonies of key witnesses or rescued biographies. All structured notes Numerous sewn very literary form.
“Sinatra until the penultimate concert he gave in Spain, at 86, at the Bernabeu, had a bad relationship with Spain, there was always something of doom in their views. Only 92 in Barcelona it was fine, but there has already come to retire. It was already a twilight singer, “he told Efe Reyero.
The book reveals the relationship of Spain with Sinatra, the “crooner”, the “elusive, disciplined and proud” man, as is described in the book, since he arrived at Barcelona in 1950 , looking for Ava Gardner when she rolled “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman” and the diva had a relationship with bullfighter Mario Cabré.
“Sinatra is fascinating argues the author, and what I like most is its resistance When he arrived in Spain chasing Ava, was at the lowest point of his career. I had missed the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was personally bad, had broken his marriage to Ava wanted to conquer … “he warns.
“And, despite its lowered, his biographer adds back and start the most interesting stage of his career, from 38 to 50″.
Again, in December 1953, is presented in Spain Sinatra supposedly to rest and there is working Ava. The singer had to share many nights carousing with the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, according reveals Reyero.
“The press at the time did not dare mention that Sinatra had come looking for Ava, when he appeared in Tossa de Mar (Girona) in the filming of ‘Pandora …’. He met with Spain by Ava and then came everything else, until he drove for contempt in Malaga “he stresses.
An expulsion carried out by the government of Franco, “which had a diplomatic relationship with Hollywood latent heat of shared interests, among which was to help the tourism,” says Reyero.
“The arrival of big stars to our country, linked to American productions since the mid-fifties he continues, is counted as if autonomous spacecraft landing here,” says the author, who also how much in the book all the social and political context of the Spain of the moment.
But despite the permissiveness and the good relationship with the stars who came to Spain to meet the night, bullfighters and flamenco clubs, Sinatra did not do well.
“I always had an answer attitude In fact, in April 1956, to get rolling ‘Pride and the Passion,” Sinatra said.’ I really like Spain, but first I will say to the press is suffering an infamous dictator, “recalls the author.
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