Frank Sinatra POSITIVELY Inspired the Johnny Fontane Godfather Subplot
Moretti was killed in an empty restaurant at lunchtime. Which mobster inspired The Godfather ? None of them. Mario Puzo told us that Don Vito Corleone was based on his mother. Why shouldn't we believe him? The problem is that the historical focus has been misaligned. The big question was always, was Puzo writing from experience or research? In other words, take Francis Ford Coppola's reply in a recent NPR interview . "I knew nothing about five crime families which had recently become exposed to the public with the publication of "The Valachi Papers." But neither did Mario Puzo, who was also Italian-American. But he knew nothing about it, and he wanted to write this book sort of to get some money for his family. He thought it could be commercial, and he did everything on research. He knew nothing. He never had met any of these figures, and he advised me never to meet them, which I never did.... " The question: Well, WHAT resear...
