Come Blow Your Horn

 Ernest Borgnine: "You know what Frank Sinatra did one time? Remember Lee J. Cobb, the actor? He was laying in the hospital with a heart attack. One day the ambulance backed up and they put Lee J. Cobb in the ambulance. 'Where are you taking me?' 'No, that's alright. Don't worry about it.' 'Well, I got to pay.' 'Don't worry about it. That's taken care of.' They took him out to Palm Springs and put him in the Compound over there with Frank Sinatra. And Frank finally showed up and Lee J. Cobb looked at him and he said, 'But Sir, why? Why do you do this?' He said, 'I like the way you act.'"

Lee J. Cobb: "After my heart attack in the summer of 1955, Frank moved into my life. I was in a low mental state then, divorced and pretty much alone in the world. I was sure my career had come to an end. But Frank - whom I knew mostly from having starred with me in "The Miracle of the Bells" in 1948 - flooded me with books, flowers, delicacies. He kept telling me what fine acting I still had ahead of me. He built an insulating wall around me that shielded me from worry, tension and strain."

Later, Sinatra asked Cobb to play in "Come Blow Your Horn".

Photo: Barbara Rush, Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, and Lee J. Cobb at the premiere of "Come Blow Your Horn", 1963.