Why was Peter Lawford “The Man Who Kept the Secrets” in Hollywood?
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The year was 1970, I was looking for a taxi, I was on the east side of Washington square park across from NYU buildings. suddenly a cab pulled over ahead of me, as i ran up to catch it the door opened and one of the handsomest men i have ever seen with eyes that looked bright lavender stepped out looked me straight in the eyes said hello and walked away. I jumped in the cab told the driver where i wanted to go and asked if that was Peter Lawford which he confirmed . A very vivid memory .
Lawford also had a love affair with Dorothy Dandridge. He wanted to marry her, but they were both warned an interracial marriage would end both of their careers. She also had an unhappy, abusive childhood. I wonder if this bonded them. He was supposed to read the eulogy at her funeral, but he broke down and was unable to do it.
Wow. Now I appreciate this guy.
Oh please.
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Dorthy DANDRIDGE HAD TALENT...PETER LAWFORD NOT SO MUCH
What happens to you in childhood really does affect your whole adult life.
To get an in with the studio, Peter's horrid mom told the bigwigs that she thought he was homosexual and she needed to be close by to keep an eye on him. This In an era rife with gay paranoia. EVIL woman👹
She wasn't evil. She was truthful about his sinful behavior. The Sin was evil
What a sad story. This man was set up for disaster
At least he did make something of his life. Many times we hear stories like this about serial killers, predators, and stalkers. It's a shame how his mum treated him.
I always liked Peter Lawford and felt sorry for him...he was used by The Kennedys, Sinatra, and hated by his own Mother. Is it any wonder he ended up on drugs and drink...he got in too deep and over night he was disregarded..Hollywood and the people in it are evil...it should be pulled down to the ground...it has made and destroyed many lives..
There's a bio-book out called "The Man Who Kept the Secrets" about Lawford. I read it back in the 90's. It speculates on what he knew about the Kennedy's, Marylin Monroe, Frank Sinatra and certain mob figures. File under "True Crime". He took many secrets to his grave. In the late 60's and 70's he made cameos on variety shows, but he wasn't that good on Hollywood Squares.
So many artists suffer early trauma. I’ve been a stage actor for decades and I cannot recall a single actor who didn’t suffer from feeling unwanted, hyper criticized, abused or neglected in childhood. The arts are an escape from a reality that is unbearable. I started disappearing into my pretend stories in my head by the time I was seven.
Thank you for sharing, I hope you've found peace.
Sounds for his awful beginnings he turned out quite well. Sexual attacks always cause great emotional trauma. He was a true survivor.
I agree that he really IS a true survivor. I am horrified that his mother was so cold & cruel and that his governess molested him. Never knew this until this video.
So sad. Why would Women do such a thing ? 😕
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@@twistoffate4791”He turned out quite well” 😂😂😂😂
Hollywood is not a place for naive people
Considering the odds against him I’d say it’s remarkable that he made out as well as he did
Honestly, I can't see that character keeping even one secret. He'd either sell it or blab it out when drunk.
Reporters tried to get Peter to talk about the Kennedys and Marilyn but he took his secrets to his grave. He was offered a 7 figure book deal and tried to start the book and hired a writer to help him write his memoir but quickly realized he could not go through with it as the publisher would expect him to write about his experiences with the Kennedy family and he knew he could never betray the only family he ever had,even though they shunned him after JFK death
I think he was as much to blame for Marilyn's death as the rest of the Kennedy's!
Such a sad story 💔
I think Lawford’s infidelity should have helped him fit in with the Kennedy’s just fine.
All the men in that family were womanizers, especially John, Bobby & Teddy, but the head of the clan, old man Joe was the worst. I don't know too much about the one whose plane went down over the English channel during WWII.
That's low Jay
But you didn't lie💚
Ikr!
Since we’re going there, the Biden family as well.
Tara Reade might feel like chiming in, if the media weren’t in the tank. And then there’s Hunter…
I loved him in "The Thin Man " a television remake of the movie starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. He really was a great actor. Too bad he let his personal life ruin him.
This script REALLY needs an editor. The narration is good as is the information, but telling us repeatedly that Sinatra had a helipad made is, um, overkill, as is the bouncing around from year to year and then back again. Try telling one cohesive story that follows a clear chronology. I mean, there is no mention of how he even met the Kennedys, much less Pat, at all.
Agree. The repetition was sloppy and annoying.
These videos are all like this, a 5-minute story squeezed into 20-minutes by the use use of random repetition.
The Cockney Australian accent is off-putting too
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I am happy to see others aware of the problems with good hearted, amateur "documentaries." There is valuable information here. But this does need a better sense of organization and presentation. The basic disappointment here is that we did not hear very much about Peter Lawford's guarding of Hollywood secrets, which is the entire hook on this.
He was married to a Kennedy and he introduced Marilyn Monroe to JFK. .... HEELLLOOOOO! .... dumb question.
This biography to me, proves that you can never trust anyone.
I find this narrators style creepy and indulgent.
Needed a script editor.
We never know what shoes a person wears - his smile hid a multitude of horrors in his life - pray he found God and peace 🙏🏻♥️
That is the best statement to be made about these latter day profiles of movie icons. The basic trouble is that those who make them seem to approach the people with an established agenda to destroy the memories of the public images of these people. While there may have been unusual things going on in their lives, outsiders are not in the position to know what was going in the lives of these people that led them in the directions they took.
@@RayPointerChannel well stated ♥️
Pray that G-d found him!
Basically he died an Alcoholic. Because Sinatra threw him out of “The Rat Pack", and his Movie career dried up completely.
Compared to JFK, Sinatra was a complete Control Freak. You don’t screw with Frank. FYI, Dean Martin thought all politicians were phony hypocrites and Sammy Davis Junior was very upset that JFK refused him attendance at his Presidential inauguration as his wife was white.
A side note, Sammy Davis Junior made a joke about Sinatra. Frank had him written out of that upcoming movie. Steve McQueen took that role and then his Movie career went to the A-List, with “The Magnificent Seven” and he never looked down again.
Frank gives and takes away.
Don't mess with ol' blue eyes.
It's weird that Sinatra reacted so badly to Lawford and not the president. I mean, what could Lawford do if the president changed his mind? To never speak to a friend again because of something outside their control is nuts. Maybe there were other reasons we don't know about.
@@blackmore4
Sinatra was an egotistical, controlling a-hole.
@@johna.4334 I was never, ever a fan of Sinatra. Not once, not ever.
JFK never denied Sammy Davis Jr., or anyone else with a white wife, attendance at his inauguration.
Is there anyone in Hollywood that’s normal??????
No , ZERO.
A few tried to separate.A few tried to repair themselves.
Definitely Not !
Hahahahaha...definitely a fair and true question...Hollywood has always attracted the odd and strange. There have been those in Hollywood who did lead more "normal" lives, but those "normal" lives never made the gossip or rag mags like the notorious lives.
He knew the truth about Marilyns death.
He should have revealed everything before his death.
He set up the death scene ( empty pill bottles on the nightstand by the bed , ...🤨😔☹️😭😠.. ✝️☯️🛐
Thr Kennedy’s destroyed everything they touched & thought nothing of sacrificing others to their own ambitions. Hilarious that the Kennedy’s were so worried about connections to the mob & despised them so much yet they were so similar to them in MANY ways.
@@lgempet2869 And history repeats in recent years.
@@RayPointerChannel Yes, it definitely DOES!
When I was a child I thought he was incredibly handsome, and in Little Women I was angry Jo didn't return Laurie's (Lawford) love, instead preferring the old professor.
His life was indeed sad -with a mother like that. He might have been happier if she'd given him to adoptive parents.
That's for sure. She did everything she could to destroy his career when she showed up in Hollywood and her demands weren't met. She signed up as one of Louis B Mayer's spies and made up stuff, which sent Louis into his psycho-studio head mode. I believe he messed with Lawford's ego & mind by putting him in sub-par movies, hauling him into his office for humiliating dressing downs the way he destroyed Judy, John Gilbert, and anyone else he felt threatened by. Unfortunately, they all self-destructed.
@@11cabadger I didn't know that. And it's funny because Mayer envisioned himself as the great, kind "father" of all of his employees.
There's an autobiography of his mother called, BITCH!, which is a deliciously evil book. She was outrageously dreadful in many ways.
Great comment.
Is it a wonder he turned to alcohol and drugs?????.
No expected with that life.
Childhood trauma is generally the cause of addiction.
@@kathyd9324
Oh yes I know all about that first hand 😉
I'm also a drug and alcohol counselor ...the tramau I hear is truly heartbreaking..I feel sorry for the men because they all have the common theme " your a man suck it up, or men don't cry" and they have a lot of hurt...
NOTE: After Peter Lawford's ash's were removed from his crypt for none payment, the space was resold to Joanna Carson, Johnny Carson ex-wife. She had her best friend Truman Capote ash's place in that crypt and when she past away in 1988 she was interred in the same crypt with Truman. Now that is the real Hollywood story!
what!! that's incredible!
a kennedy and rat pack member removed from his crypt? did he die broke?
@@packrcchYes. It seems he was low on cash.
@@chrisjeffries2322
But the Kennedys are rich. I don't understand.
@@johna.4334 they only care about themselves, and Lawford was like their guinea pig whom they used to do their biding. I'm sure he was laughed at. Very sad how he was treated in life. Today fans would have began a go fund me page for him I'm sure.
@@migue4793
"Dead Kennedys" seems appropriate.
What an extraordinarily handsome man he was.
Overall good but you need to edit better. Too much repetition.
Wow, so sad! He was a very handsome man, but unloved as a child. Thanks for the back story, it really explains a lot.
He was also in the movie Dead Ringer staring Bettie Davis 🤔
Yeah. That was a good one.
The mistake of turning down Bond must have also hurt over the years...
Peter Lawford is believed to be the last person to speak to Marilyn Monroe before her suicide. 🤔
Before her murder
How sad 😢 that was a very depressing story. It is really traumatizing to have an adult force a child into having sex with them regardless if they are a man or woman, but I can sympathize with Peter over this. It is also terrible to raise a child that you despise and the effects of a bad mother can also stay with you for all your life. I wish I had known him and could have been his friend before all this happened to him, surely he never knew what it was like to be loved by anyone and I can also sympathize with him on that as well. How difficult it is to never have anyone really love you, and to be raised by someone who belittles and shames you throughout your life. If his mother hated him so much she should have put him up for adoption, surely he would have had a different life and may never had been a film star, but he would have been adopted by someone who actually loved him and it is better that way. They say it is better to know love and have it lost, than to have never had known love at all, and that point is clear in his life.
Lawford stayed with Victor Lownes at Stocks in his twilight years. He would order breakfast from the bar or occasionally make an appearance in dressing gown and slippers. He always had the same breakfast, as many Martinis as it took to get unconscious.
He would sometimes order toast or eggs but mostly not be interested by the time they were ready. A couple of times I served food in his room for him, one time entering to bring his breakfast I found him spark out face down totally starkers in the middle of the carpet.
He was always quite ok with the barstaff but obviously beset by a host of demons.
Where was this?
@@yxtabay361 Stocks in Aldbury. It was Victor's UK residence and at the sane time a country club / hotel . He had many of his friends stay I think Peter might have arrived with Tony Curtis.
When was this? How long was he there? He used to live across the street from me. He'd get really blitzed on coke and alcohol and be quite the raconteur! Even in that state, though, he wouldn't tell Kennedy stories. The next day he wouldn't remember a thing, including the people he'd been entertaining the night before! This was not long before he got married and died. A couple years ago they renamed the building after him.
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Hi. I think to the best of my recollection this would have been around 1983. Perhaps I'm off by a year but no more.
@@bobjary9382 That would've been after he lived here. I don't remember what year I knew him, but he did disappear from here before he died.
Peter Lawford was also Easter parade with Judy garland and Fred Astaire and he played the first love interest of Judy in the film
"It"?
@@johna.4334 Thank you for pointing that out that was a bit stupid I am a severely dyslexic and I can make some very bad punctuation mistakes because I'm using a smartphone and blunt but I don't really know how to do take care and stay safe and thank you for the comment because it's stop me feeling a bit stupid I appreciate it
@@stuartashbourne-martin9629
It's all good.
Yes, and he was also male lead in Good News with June Allyson. Lawford also was good in On An Island With You and Royal Wedding.
Ok, you've made me mad there Age! Did you reread or listen to this before you put it up?! His "mother" was a MONSTER to the point where when he got a movie contract and she didn't get one, she started telling the studio and anybody she could get to listen to her that he was gay, a thief, a drunk, a gambler, but luckily they didn't listen, she was banned from the studio completely. He is one of my favorite actors and you're making it sound like he was completely untalented! As you can tell from the things that others are saying here, people still love him and his work. And even when he was older, like when I met him, he was still HOT!!! Just catch your tone on this, he was a star before and after the Rat Pack. Mediocre doesn't describe him at all! He was kind and sweet and handsome as hell, and I was so lucky to have met him.
Yes, aren't you lucky omg. But mediocre is correct. Was he sweet and kind to Marilyn? Probably not. His own words "I should've known better"...they used her and abused her. SHE was sweet & kind. Look at someone's true character, not just that they're HOT. He was a womanizer, a cheater and a horrible father and "allegedly" a pimp. And lots of people have horrific childhoods. Marilyn included.
Peters life was hell from beginning to end but some good in between becoming a actor and gaining some success during that period, i often wondered why he allowed himself to be subjected to bad treatment from Sinatra and the Kennedys i understand now and see why, his mother really worked a number on him psychologically, very sad yet seeing him on the screen and the way he carried himself you would of never known of all his insecurities and all the hell he endured throughout his life.
Trauma. What happened with sinatra ? His life is a tragedy. And abuse he's mainly what he only known. He was used to bad treatment since chilhood and I'm sure that he thought he deserved it. He didn't have a high esteem of his person. His end with the booze is sad.
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@@michaelsinclair3321 What ? & What happened with sinatra ?
@@lindseycarribean5113 I mean no harm here but its very late where i am and im in bed and have moved on to something else ( a movie) but its common knowledge or at least i thought it was how Sinatra treated many people not just Peter but to me his case was the worse perhaps because i read into detail the many different occasions it occured however i don't have the time to go through all that with you right now perhaps during the day at another time i would be happy to elaborate but if you insist on knowing right now and have the time to dig i suggest you research, thank you goodnight.
@@michaelsinclair3321 Good film and have a good night sleep 👋from 🇫🇷 ❣
I can only hope he has received a much better reception into a much better world.
Well he knew what really happened to Marilyn. He was Bobby Kennedy's Uber that night. From the guilt he drank himself to death.
One “secret” you left out was Sinatra’s unwanted tryst with Pat-on top of Peter’s infidelities. Jack was particularly close to Pat. She was the sister he and Bob had traveled with to tour the Far East. The brothers were outraged when Pat told them. Neither of them missed the Rat Pack. Tragic about Peter, though.
Jimmy Hoffa once said his biggest mistake was trying to take on the Kennedys. It seems they were a lot more powerful than anyone imagined. That all changed on November 22nd.
Liked Peter Lawford in the '50s series " The Thin Man " with Phyllis Kirk and Asta the dog .🇬🇧
She was cute and from N.J. Did a great job with whatever Jersey accent she might have had.
What a horrible childhood. It’s amazing he didn’t despise women with those experiences and that horrible mother! No true love and protection 😢
Very sad this guy had a lovely presence on stage and a great voice i think he was under estimated x
I agree with you
Me too ✋
Me THREE
The only friend Peter Lawford had in the World was Sammy Davis. Jr; check out Scandal's & Mysteries Peter Lawford.
He always struck me as both a weak and pathetic figure.
Hate to say it but I also viewed him as weak.
That was really sad about no one wanting his remains. RIP Mr. Lawford
"The National Enquirer provided the boat in exchange for the scoop." What scoop? The spreading of Lawford's ashes in the ocean?
If you didn't know anything about sociopaths and serial killers, Lawford grew up in the same lifestyle and environment as many.
Lawford connected Bobby & Jack Kennedy with Marilyn Monroe.
He certainly knew secrets specifically what happened to Marilyn Monroe.He never told of many secrets.
Joey Bishop was trhe least known Rat Pack member. Peter at least had political connections.
My Goodness, If I had a mother like he did, I'd be a head case too!
Tortured child. 😪😪 this is horrible, disgusting. Turning it off.
When it comes to "suffering" Peter is right up there with Elizabeth Taylor!?! However, he sure did run with the cream of the crop with Hollywood Stars and Popular US President JFK.
Evict his remains from Westwood Cemetery? Wow that’s pretty bad!
I always thought he was a nice guy, a good man.
Michael Landon said on Dean Martin’s roast “ television is a invention that you have in your living room with people that you would not have in your home”. He might not have said that just in jest .
I always thought the was so good looking. His mom was a horrible person.
Is this a sister channel to MO10ta? Very similar words and identical photos. This paints a more negative picture or maybe I just got that impression from reading the comments while watching the video.
Personally, I have always felt sorry for the guy. Before he was overwhelmed by alcoholism and bankruptcy, he was a loyal and supportive friend. Unlike Sinatra, he never expected to get something out a kind gesture and he certainly never cut people off for being gay, non-white, or "lippy".
He truly was a sophisticated, gorgeous, elegant man -- on the outside. Sounds like he was a hollow vessel on the inside.
Earl Birkett: Sinatra was the King. Kings usually wield their power and Sinatra had the power. Also, after he died, people came out of the woodwork talking about how generous and altruistic person he was. If it wasn’t for Sinatra, Sammy Davis would have continued to only be allowed to enter a Casino through the back door.
I have often heard Peter Lawford mentioned but this is the first time I actually have seen a photo of him and what he looked like.
Seriously ?
It cost Frank Sinatra a small fortune to have that Helipad built for President Kennedys visit, he had it worked on practically 24/7. The cost of the labor was enormous.
I’d say he did pretty damn well for the background he had. I always laugh when nobodies criticize famous people.
Interesting to a point but too many same pics throughout the presentation.
PETER LAWFORD WAS JUST A KENNADY LACKY THEY SAID JUMP AND HE SAID HOW HIGH
Lawford was the poor man's Cary Grant. He was not that great as an actor, but he did possess a certain, naive charm. In one of his final films 'Angels Brigade' he played a crime lord living in a mansion in LA. It struck me, upon seeing this low budget Charlie's Angel rip-off, that they were paying Peter in cocaine, and that for that price, Peter was letting them film in his own home. Later, I read that the last individual Marilyn Monroe called was Peter and that when she told him she had ODed he blew it off as just a cry for attention and hung up on her. It was because of this, according to the book, that Marilyn was left to die.
He was nobody's Cary Grant. Ever.
lol...peter was famous mostly because of who he was married to...and because Sinatra got him most of his work...trying to get close to the kennedys...lawford..was a total cheapskate...who was into gay bath houses and hookers and drugs....period!
@@jadezee6316 wait he was gay?
@@georgekissi9398 Cary Grant was more than likely gay or bisexual. Watch this channel's video on Cary Grant & Randolph Scott. Then read "Full Service" by Scotty Bowers. Doesn't take away from his acting, though. Great actor.
@@georgekissi9398 Peter was bisexual. One of his reputed lovers was Hollywood actor Keenan Wynne.
very sad childhood he had
In a lot of those photos of Mr. Lawford, I notice a striking resemblances to John Travolta especially around the mouth and eyes.
Travolta wishes he looked like Peter Lawford. Can’t see any resemblance of Peter Lawford looking like Travolta.
Wow what a story of Peter Lawford he was so glamorous and handsome you would just think he had a great life that is so sad.🥺
Lawford seems to have got Karma for the Kennedys. All Joe's family got too near the sun, like Icarus flying on his father's Daedalus's wings and got burnt up.
My goodness listening to all the awfulness from his mother , and governess’s, and adult relatives, all of them including his father for not protecting him deserved lengthy prison time , but different era folk’s got away with a lot . Considering the company he kept you would never guessed his life wasn’t what most thought .
Gosh, I was enjoying your story until nearing the end when you started to repeat yourself.
🚩Great actor, but no James Bond✌
He was one of the last people to speak to Marilyn Monroe he knew what really happened to her him and that vile tribe that he was married into
sheesh
He would of been the perfect 007
He didn’t have the macho needed for Bond. He was a cutesy rich boy…
When Mickey Rooney was asked at Errol Flynn's funeral what happened to Errol at only 50? Rooney's reply was Errol woke up and wasn't Robin Hood anymore. Profound statement for so many.woman fell over themselves screaming for Cary Grant. And archie leach said everyone wants to be Cary Grant even me.
Just like Mickey Rooney woke up and found out he wasn't Andy Hardy.
All those good looks and good breeding , yet happiness and success alluded him and he died of drink and drugs at a relativly young age
Peter Lawford and Cary Grant would appear to have led parallel lives.
What was happening in Britain to make women be horrible mother's?
@@2degucitas
Two world wars?
@@johna.4334 Yes. It hardened people.
Lawford was never as successful as Grant, nor did he have the same level of talent. He was good, but not a great A list actor and star.
@@auapplemac1976
"B" list?
Damn!
I never knew any of this.
What a truly tragic life!
why tell the story of JFK 's cancelled visit twice?
Sins of the mother are visited upon the son !!!... I wonder what happened to his mother why she would treat her own child like that? UK
Me too . Psychoanalysis time !
Look o further than her experiences growing up or better yet, early aging.
@@bobandbally88 So, are you saying she was also abused/neglected as a little girl ?
@@TREVASLARK just suggesting a possible root cause
@@bobandbally88 Well, there always is one (usually more that one)that determines who we become.
Often - the hand that rocks the cradles ruins the lives around them !!!
i could only think of Good News and a reoccuring role on the Doris Day Show.
Speaking of Sinatra, could you do a video on Tommy Sands?
Who?
@@johna.4334 never heard of him. Maybe the owner of the Sands casino?
@@alpha-omega2362 Tommy Sands was Sinatra's son-in-law for a while (he married Nancy Sinatra). I recall reading that Sands was blacklisted for a while because he and Nancy divorced.
@@Merry-ne4mr o.k. sounds like a would be has been ....but never got to the would be part so he couldn't be a has been.....if that makes anysense???
@@alpha-omega2362 He was a singer and actor, was in Disney's 'Babes In Toyland', a nice looking guy. His career seemed to be in an upswing, but Nancy set her sites on him, and wanted to marry him. I don't believe he wanted to, but you didn't tell Sinatra that, so they did indeed marry. It didn't last long, and Sinatra pretty much put an end to what may have been a promising career.
The Kennedy clan treated him like 💩💩 I am sure he had many secrets about the rat pack too...poor man his life was hell from beginning to the end
I liked him and thought he could do better in film. Too bad he didn't go for therapy. His life might have been different.
I never knew he had such a horrendous childhood. It makes me look at him in a more sympathetic way.
It's an interesting question: who foots the bill long, long after a celebrity passes? Consider Jean Harlow, for example. Bill Powell paid for her opulent resting place for two. (I believe he's not in it.) But that was in 1937. She had no great fortune, nor any children. Many tourists stop by to pay their respects and take a picture, but I doubt the cemetery is so crass they charge admittance.
13:12 "In 1958 Peter was offered the role of James Bond ..." They didn't do a Bond movie until 1962 however?
(If you are thinking of Barry Nelson's TV version that was back in 1954.)
The role was bruted to him in 1958...
I know one Peter Lawford secret . Lawford was the uncredited executive producer of THE PATTY DUKE SHOW.
How do you go from parking Kennedy's car to marrying his daughter?
Lawford went from the East End of London to Hollywood. You have to give him that much
Sad story. Thanks for your research, very appreciated.
WHY ? 'cause he wanted to live.
You're right I can't name any film he was in but he is a famous personality without remembering which films he was in for some reason, his connections to Marilyn Monroe has something to do with it for me........ He was great on Password...I do remember that much!!!
He was the love interest in movies with Liz Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson (Little Women). Was in "Son of Lassie", "Good New", "Royal Wedding" to name a few movies. Many in the 40s and 50s.
Whenever I watch The Rat Pack at The Sands, or see Peter Lawford in Frank’s close circle I know why he’s there.
I always wonder ‘hadn’t Peter figured it out?’
Once the Kennedys erased Frank from their re-election volunteers and he cut Peter out of his life I suppose it was clear.
The question I still have is ‘how in the world did Joey Bishop wind up in that Vegas show?
I’ve always wondered why Joey Bishop was considered one of the “Rat Pack” ? Jerry Lewis would have been more appropriate than Joey Bishop.
@@lilybond6485 you miss the point, the Rat Pack was Sinatra's ego trip. Everyone was supposed to bow down to him. He was Trump long before Trump came along.
@@lilybond6485 Joey Bishop was more adept at being a sidekick than Jerry Lewis. Also, don't forget the bad blood between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and their severed partnership. No way would Jerry as a Rat Pack member have worked.
All the Marilyn-and-Kennedys stuff is still *alleged* after 60 years. An MM scholar, I disregard most of it. The English ignore it; one Brit writer called MM "spiritual", likely as opposed to UK's earthy Diana Dors.
The Kennedy's Used Him To Do Dirty Work When He Was Divorced From Daughter Patricia. In 1966 He Was Of Little Or Not Use To The Kennedy's
Weakness, and fearfulness, but he lost it all any ways. 😥💔 early trauma!.💔