Sinatra immediately, including food, drink and maid service at his hotel. Newspapers mock the singer with headlines like "Frankie, Go Home," but even that is problematic, inasmuch no one is willing now to supply fuel for his jet, either. An apology is demanded, but the best Sinatra is willing to do is permit Rudin to try to work out a satisfactory compromise with Bob Hawke, the trade union's leader (and Australia's future prime minister). Audrey, meantime, becomes furious at finding Rod kissing reporter Hilary, after which Rod gets into a bloody fistfight with Sinatra's sidekick, Rizzo, who refuses to release tapes of the concert that Rod has already pre-sold. It is ultimately proposed that Sinatra will do a benefit concert for the trades people, but as soon as he gets back on stage, rather than apologize for calling the reporter a two-dollar hooker, he says: "I overpaid." Enjoying himself nevertheless, the singer calls Barbara up to the stage, introducing her to Australia as "the girl I'm going to marry." Cast Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra Melanie Griffith as Barbara Marx Portia de Rossi as Hilary Hunter Joel Edgerton as Rod Blue Rose Byrne as Audrey Appleby David Hemmings as Mickey Rudin David Field as Bob Hawke Victoria Thaine as Penny Stephen O'Rourke as Jilly Rizzo Nicholas Hope as Phil George Vidalis as Vinny Peter Demlakian as Ruby Tony Barry as Ralph Blue Vincent Ball as Rex Hooper Jennifer Hagan as Doris Nicholas Papademetriou as Luigi Tom Burlinson as Frank Sinatra (singing voice) Production The film was loosely based on true events. Barbara Marx had been divorced from Zeppo Marx in 1973, a year before the Frank Sinatra concert appearance in Australia depicted in this film. She and Sinatra got married in 1976 and remained together for the rest of his life. Jilly Rizzo, a restaurateur who became close friend and associate of Sinatra, was killed on his 75th birthday by a drunk driver in 1992. Milton A. "Mickey" Rudin was the singer's attorney; he died of pneumonia in December 1999, a year and a half after Sinatra's death from natural causes. The labor leader portrayed in the film, Bob Hawke, became prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. Sinatra's hotel in 1974 was the Boulevard in Sydney, where his suite and those of his entourage were on the 23rd floor. His tour, his first in Australia in 15 years