Meet Danny Wilson (film)

Meet Danny Wilson
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byJoseph Pevney
Screenplay byDon McGuire
Story byDon McGuire
Produced byLeonard Goldstein
StarringFrank Sinatra
Shelley Winters
Alex Nicol
CinematographyMaury Gertsman
Edited byVirgil W. Vogel
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • February 7, 1952 (1952-02-07) (Los Angeles)
  • February 8, 1952 (1952-02-08) (New York City)
  • April 1, 1952 (1952-04-01) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Meet Danny Wilson is a 1952 American drama musical film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters and Alex Nicol.

Sinatra, during his famous career slump between his bobby-soxer heyday and From Here to Eternity (1953), plays a small-time singer, who vaults to the top of his profession, only to be threatened by a gangster (Raymond Burr).

The circumstances of the making of this film are legendary, as Shelley Winters and Frank Sinatra hated each other. Winters, according to Kitty Kelley's "His Way", at one point in a pique of anger slugged Sinatra. He did not retaliate.