Darwin Porter: “Frank Sinatra appeared in The Masked Bandit, a porn film, at the age of 19″

Darwin Porter, who has been researching ’s biography, “Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer“, for decades claimed the singer was persuaded to appear in a porn film at the age of 19.

Frank Sinatra was paid $100 for his contribution to a 1934 movie called – and spent the rest of his life hoping it would stay a secret.

Darwin Porter says he was told about the film by British actor , one of the five members of the Rat Pack – Frank Sinatra’s gang of movie pals from the 1960s which also included Dean Martin and

Peter Lawford revealed that Sammy Davis Jr. – a collector of porn films at a time when they were not sold openly – had a copy of The Masked Bandit.

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Frank Sinatra was paid $100 for his contribution to a 1934 movie called The Masked Bandit – and spent the rest of his life hoping it would stay a secret

 

In 1972, Sammy Davis Jr. played a prank on Frank Sinatra at a party of celebrity friends, inserting footage of the movie into a reel of the notorious porn film Deep Throat, which he screened for the guests.

Because Frank Sinatra was masked, nobody at the private screening except Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr. and himself knew who the skinny teenager frolicking with two naked actresses was.

The Rat Pack often played pranks on each other but Frank Sinatra wasn’t amused.

The singer masked his anger to keep the secret and, says Darwin Porter, was going to “cut Sammy Davis Jr. off for life, but then realized Davis might reveal his secret”.

Sammy Davis Jr. later agreed to destroy his copy of The Masked Bandit.

Referring to Frank Sinatra’s involvement with the Mafia, Darwin Porter adds: “Years later, a segment of The Masked Bandit was considered for insertion in a film about stars such as Joan Crawford who had appeared in porn before they became famous.

“When Frank heard about this, he called his friends in the mob. The bandit loop never resurfaced.”

Darwin Porter, who has published books on other Hollywood figures, adds: “A lot of stars do a porno loop when they are struggling. So many have this little dark period.”

James Kaplan, author of the biography, “Frank: The Making of a Legend”, said that he had not heard of the porn film, although Frank Sinatra, who died in 1998, 14 years after Peter Lawford, was certainly struggling during the early 1930s.

Frank Sinatra’s career took off in the next decade, and was revived in 1954 when he won an Oscar for his performance in From Here To Eternity.

James Kaplan suggests it is possible that Peter Lawford invented the porn film story after falling out with Frank Sinatra in the 1960s.

 

 

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