Pallies! - The Friends of Frank Sinatra Quiz

Answer: Bill Miller

Cahn and Van Huesen helped write and arrange many of Frank's greatest hits but it was the piano playing Miller who was Frank's silent partner. It is well documented that Frank himself could not read a sheet of music.
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Answer: Jackie Gleason

Located on East 51st street in New York City, Toots Schoor's was a popular hangout for sports stars and celebrities of that time. It was in the days before Gleason hit it big with The Honeymooners and Sinatra's career was in decline. Interestingly enough, although they made many appearances together Sinatra was not a big fan of Bob Hope and considered him a cheapskate.They also both had an affair with starlet Marilyn Maxwell which Hope rubbed in Frank's face.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

It was Bogart's tight knit group of friends that was the original Rat Pack. Frank briefly courted Lauren Bacall in the months after Bogie's death. Zeppo Marx may sound like a strange option in multiple choice but some Sinatra fans might remember his fourth wife Barbara was once married to the fourth Marx brother.

Answer: Bing Crosby

Crosby was another man Frank respected on many levels but his notoriously bad treatment of his children kept Frank at a distance in later years. Their two movies are "High Society" (1956) and "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (1964).

Answer: Peter Lawford

Lawford's place in the Rat Pack was based mostly on his relationship with JFK, who Sinatra respected and supported in the 1960 presidential election.

Answer: Don Rickles

Rickles was one of the few comedians Frank would go to see onstage. Joe E. Lewis was a notorious drunk who Frank also found hysterical and even played him in the movie "The Joker's Wild".

Answer: Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli was a friend to Sinatra due mostly to the fact that Frank tried many times to help her mother, Judy Garland, kick her drug habit. Eydie Gorme and her husband, Steve Lawrence, joined Frank on his final tours often helping him remember lyrics when he stumbled but it was Liza who filled in for Dean Martin when he backed out of the 1988 tour.

Answer: Jilly Rizzo

I hope you didn't let the one eye bit fool you. Jilly Rizzo was the owner of Jilly's restaurant Frank's favorite haunt in the 1960s. The two met at a boxing match in Miami and stayed close until Jilly's death.

Answer: Sammy Davis Jr.

Davis was often criticized by his friends for his several pack a day habit but that was not the only reason they called him Smokey.His fellow Rat Packers once switched his white robe for brown.

As politically incorrect as he now seems, Frank Sinatra was open to friends of all colors and creeds. It was Sinatra who stood by Davis at the 1960 Democratic National Convention when he was booed by the delegation from Mississippi.

Answer: Merv Griffin

Griffin, owner of the resorts casino in Atlantic City and creator of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, made his first claim to fame as an amicable afternoon variety show host. Are you surprised Dean Martin was never an answer?