Did Frank Sinatra Make a Porn Film?

A Frank Sinatra biographer with an upcoming book claims that Ol' Blue Eyes - when those blue eyes were much younger - once hit desperate times that called for desperate measure many probably couldn't picture the legendary singer and American icon taking.

While researching Frank Sinatra: The Boudoir Singer, author Darwin Porter claims he discovered that a 19-year-old-and-broke Sinatra - years before he'd perform in "From Here To Eternity," "Ocean's Eleven" or "The Manchurian Candidate" among other classic films - made a since long-hidden pornographic film.

Porter also claims that Sinatra went to great lengths to ensure the film never became well-known enough to become as notorious as Sinatra's other wild ways.

According to a Porter interview with the U.K. Daily Mail, the singer performed in a 1934 film called "The Masked Bandit." Compared with how well-paid some current adult performers can become today, Sinatra was paid $100 for his work. He'd spend his career after it keeping it under wraps.

Porter claims that Sinatra made his Rat Pack cohort Sammy Davis Jr. erase Davis Jr.'s lone copy after an ugly party prank. He became irrate that actor and fellow Rat Pack member Peter Lawford and Davis showed Sinatra's friends and acquaintances the performance as a gag at a 1972 party. Davis supposedly spliced a clip from "The Masked Bandit" into a real of the adult classic "Deep Throat."

Since Sinatra was masked during his performance, he couldn't be identified by anybody but those who knew he was in it - meaning, himself, Davis and Lawford.

Sinatra considered "cutting (Davis Jr.) off for life" after the stunt, but relented after realizing that Davis Jr. could reveal Sinatra's secret, Porter claims.

And in an alleged moment that's somewhat more in line with some of the more dubious stories about Sinatra's career, Porter claims that Sinatra once "called his friends in the mob" to make sure the tape wouldn't be included in a documentary about major Hollywood faces that appeared in porn before making legitimate films.