In 1968, when he was 32 and considering entering politics, Nina told him the truth, reportedly devastating Darin. ĭarin believed his mother Nina was instead his elder sister and that Polly, who had raised him from birth, was his mother. Nina and her mother hatched a plan to pass her baby off as Nina's younger brother. Darin's birth mother, Vanina Juliette "Nina" Cassotto (born November 30, 1917), became pregnant with him in the summer of 1935, when she was 17. His maternal grandmother, Vivian Fern Walden, who called herself "Polly" and was born in 1891, was of English, Danish, and Norwegian ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Saverio Antonio "Big Sam Curly" Cassotto (born January 26, 1882), was a would-be mobster of Italian descent who died in prison from pneumonia a year before Darin's birth. Walden Robert Cassotto was born May 14, 1936, in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. He died at the age of 37 after a heart operation in Los Angeles. The knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to use his musical talent while still young. Īlthough he made a successful comeback (in television) in the early 1970s, his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood. Those events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion. During the same year, he discovered the woman who had raised him was his grandmother, not his mother as he thought, and learned that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother. He was present on the night of June 4/5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Robert Kennedy's assassination. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee.ĭuring the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. That was followed by " Dream Lover", " Mack the Knife", and " Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. He recorded his first million-selling single, " Splish Splash", in 1958.
He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis.
He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music. Full membership to the IDM is for researchers who are fully committed to conducting their research in the IDM, preferably accommodated in the IDM complex, for 5-year terms, which are renewable.Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, musician, and actor.
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