It was Peter Lawford, who was Frank’s good friend and partner in Puccini’s and who’d become a good friend of mine.

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/02/jim-mahoney-pr-to-sinatra-mcqueen-gable-explores-60-years-of-hollywood-in-memoir-it-was-about-taming-the-lion-1235248563/

Puccini’s is a conceit employed in almost every Western film since.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/21/sounding-out-renfield/

There also is a new staging of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” by director Aria Umezawa and starring Karen Chia-ling Ho that starts on April 26, 2024.

Source: https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/national_entertainment/article_9644045e-380d-5d1f-9dd4-6b79fa64f33d.html

The widely-spaced opening sonority of Puccini’s overture provided the template for the Silver Screen when conjuring the immense distance traversed by Manifest Destiny.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/21/sounding-out-renfield/