Frank Sinatra, Porn Star?

According to the Daily Mail, Porter Darwin who spent decades researching Sinatra says that as a homeless and hungry youngster, the future Ol’ Blue Eyes was persuaded to appear in a blue movie. He was paid $100 for his contribution to a 1934 movie called The Masked Bandit at the age of 19, and spent the rest of his life hoping it would stay a secret,” the paper reported.

“[Porter] says he was told about the film by British actor Peter Lawford, one of the five members of the Rat Pack—Sinatra’s gang of movie pals from the 1960s which also included Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.” Davis, said Lawford, had somehow acquired a copy, and in 1972 he played a trick on Sinatra by “inserting footage of the movie into a reel of the porn film Deep Throat, which he then screened for a guest list that included Sinatra.

“Because Sinatra was masked, nobody at the private screening except Lawford, Davis and Sinatra knew who the skinny teenager frolicking with two naked actresses was,” reported the Mail. “The Rat Pack often played pranks on each other but Sinatra wasn’t amused. He masked his anger to keep the secret and, says Porter, was going to ‘cut Sammy Davis Jnr off for life, but then realized Davis might reveal his secret.’ Davis later agreed to destroy his copy of The Masked Bandit.”