Joe E. Lewis

On his live album Sinatra at the Sands (1966) Sinatra says that even though he recently celebrated his 50th birthday he would have the body of a 22-year-old man "If I hadn't spent all those years drinking with Joe E. After refusing because he had been offered more money by a rival gang to appear at their own club "The New Rendezvous" he was later assaulted by McGurn one morning in November 1927 in his 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel room mutilated (his throat cut) and left for dead. Joe appeared in the movies Too Many Husbands (the 1931 short comedy) Private Number (1936) The Holy Terror (1937) Private Buckaroo (1942) and played himself in Lady In Cement (1968).

Lewis (January 12 1902 – June 4 1971) born Joseph Klewan in New York City was an American comedian and singer.