TIS, the mob did not lean on Harry Cohn to give Sinatra the part of Maggio in "From Here to Eternity." Cohn wasn't hot on Sinatra because his box office appeal had waned at that point. The studio originally had Eli Wallach in mind. But the part of Maggio called for a skinny, frail guy, and Wallach was too well built at the time to be convincing. So skinny Ol' Blue Eyes fit the bill. As one writer put it, "it was Sinatra's 29-inch waist, not the Mafia, that got him the part."