Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune

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1,232 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2 Jul

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.

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The agency sent me over.

Well, what do I do?

But if he doesn't go to plays, how does he review them?

Look, Mr. Partridge, I am a great connoisseur of the theater arts.

I have sat under the runway of Old Howard in Boston and similar high-tone resorts in Union City, New Jersey.

But if you're looking for a drama critic, I think you better get yourself a new boy.

Don't worry, Mr. Partridge.

He won't even wink.

I got a real dandy rabbit punch.

I developed it punching rabbits.

I am now remembering that this Burke Whittemore is the fellow known on Broadway as the Kiss of Death.

He's not written a review with a kind word in it since Helen Hayes was playing kid parts with bloomers showing.

But now he's a rum-dum, senior grade, and I'm hired to make an honest man of him.

We head back to Whittemore's office where the job of protecting him from his various follies starts even sooner than I think.

Now, a malacca cane with a silver head is not as heavy as a bulldozer or as high-powered as a six-inch shell.

But when laid neatly back at the ear, it'll serve.

I fold up in a tasteful knot and drill gracefully to the axminster.

Having delivered his ultimatum, St.

John Maloney turns on his heel, which happens to be on my stomach at the time, and strides out of the office.

Oh, what happened to me?

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