Cf. Johnny Fontane and Frank Sinatra?

Cafe Society
1

How many of the details of the life and personality of Johnny Fontane as depicted in the Godfather books and movies are taken directly from facts or rumours/legends about Frank Sinatra and how many are completely fictional?

Beating his actress wife on the legs in order not to bruise her face?

Getting out of a contract with a big band leader with the help of the mob?

Getting a career-reviving role in a movie with the help of the mob? (Horse’s head scene)

Others?

If any of these are true, who would have been the Don Corleone in Sinatra’s life?

2

I know Sinatra got out of a contract with big band leader Tommy Dorsey, and From Here To Eternity was the big movie that revitalized his waning career. Also, Ava Gardner was the young ingenue he stole away from a studio head.

3

For a sec there I thought you were talking about Vic Fontaine and began wondering if I’d missed a lot of DS9 episodes.

4

Didn’t he threaten to sue over the character?