Editing Bobby Darin (section)

=== Relationship with Connie Francis ===
In 1956, Darin and Connie Francis met after their manager, George Scheck, arranged for Francis to record a song Darin had written. They were soon in what Darin's friends described as, "an intense romance". However, Francis's parents did not approve of Darin, and one night after returning from a date, Francis found her bags packed and waiting for her on the front step. Darin proposed almost immediately. When her father found out about the engagement, he stormed into the rehearsals of ''[[The Jackie Gleason Show]]'' with a gun and threatened to shoot Darin, who managed to escape out of a window. Darin and Francis talked briefly after the show, but parted ways.<ref name=":2" /> Over a four-month period in 1956, the two maintained a secret correspondence involving love letters. Darin kept the letters until his death, and the letters were auctioned. They were returned to Francis later.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nolasco |first=Stephanie |date=2018-02-08 |title=Connie Francis reflects on her romance with Bobby Darin before his untimely death |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/connie-francis-reflects-on-her-romance-with-bobby-darin-before-his-untimely-death |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the following years, they saw each other several times while appearing on the same television shows, but were never romantically involved again. In 1960, Francis heard on the radio that Darin had married Sandra Dee &mdash; just as her father and she were driving through the [[Lincoln Tunnel]]. Francis later wrote: "I wished that somehow God would cause the Hudson River to come gushing in and entrap us in that tunnel." Francis has said that not marrying Darin was the biggest mistake of her life.<ref name=":2" />