clintonforever
Banned
Suppose Marlon Brando wasn't interested in being head of a crime family or mafia, so he turns downs the role which goes instead to....who was it Danny Thomas?
My favourite alt-Don Corleone is Sinatra. I like the fact that probably leads to Harvey Keitel playing the young Vito in GF2.
Would Sinatra agree to appear in a film with a character based on him? While Johnny Fontane isn't as big a character in the film, Sinatra had taken against Mario Puzo because of the book. Maybe Paramount get their way and cast Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas.
Here's one thing to consider about Frank's revulsion about the mobbed up singer in Godfather, and how he supposedly thought it defamed him. In 'From Here To Eternity' Sinatra played a soldier who becomes a disciplinary case and escapes from the military stackade--and that role was only a decade after Sinatra was publicly considered to be a wartime draft dodger.
Sinatra was no more psychologically unfit than any other kid from the streets of Hoboken.
However, I think that the clashing egos of Coppola, Evans, and Sinatra would have caused serious delays that could have led to Paramount pulling the plug on what they were already considering to be an overpriced monstrosity.
I always thought that he, like Mickey Mantle, was 4F?
Honestly, if you were a recruiter for the army, would you want Sinatra, even if he was physically capable? Some people, like Malcolm X, were judged psychologically unfit for military service. I could see Sinatra with that tag.