Editing Jimmy Van Heusen (section)

==Personal life==
Van Heusen was known to be quite popular among women. [[James Kaplan]] in his book ''Frank: The Voice'' (2010) wrote, "He played piano beautifully, wrote gorgeously poignant songs about romance...he had a fat wallet, he flew his own plane; he never went home alone." Van Heusen was once described by [[Angie Dickinson]], "You would not pick him over [[Clark Gable]] any day, but his magnetism was irresistible."<ref name = vanityFair>{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/archive-march-2015-jimmy-van-heusen |title=The King Of Ring-A-Ding-Ding|website=Vanityfair.com |date=February 5, 2015 |access-date=November 5, 2016}}</ref> In his 20s he began to shave his head when he started losing his hair, a practice ahead of its time. He once said "I would rather write songs than do anything else – even fly." Kaplan also reported that he was a "[[hypochondriac]] of the first order" who kept a [[Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy|Merck]] manual at his bedside, injected himself with vitamins and painkillers, and had surgical procedures for ailments real and imagined.<ref name = vanityFair />

{{Quote box|I took song writing seriously when I discovered girls.<ref name=pc1a>{{Pop Chronicles 40s|1|A |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633237/m1/#track/5}} Van Heusen [https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 interviewed 1971 July 22] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207074429/https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 |date=February 7, 2020 }}</ref>}}

It was Van Heusen who rushed Sinatra to the hospital after Sinatra, in despair over the breakup of his marriage to [[Ava Gardner]], slashed one of his wrists in a [[suicide attempt]] in November 1953.<ref name = hmag>{{cite news |date= January 29, 2016 |title= Fridays Are For Frank: "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" – Sinatra & Jimmy Van Heusen|url=http://hmag.com/fridays-frank-love-tender-trap-sinatra-jimmy-van-heusen/ |newspaper=[[hMag]]|access-date= November 5, 2016 }}</ref> However, this event was never mentioned by Van Heusen in any radio or print interviews given by him. Van Heusen himself married for the first time in 1969, at age 56, to Bobbe Brock, originally one of the [[Brox Sisters]] and widow of the late producer [[William Perlberg|Bill Perlberg]].

===Death===
Van Heusen retired in the late 1970s and died in 1990 in [[Rancho Mirage, California]], from complications following a stroke at the age of 77.<ref name=UCLA>{{cite web|title=Jimmy Van Heusen Collection of Musical Works and Papers|url=http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/music/mlsc/collection.cfm?id=137&f=x|publisher=UCLA Libraries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309070141/http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/music/mlsc/collection.cfm?id=137&f=x|archive-date=March 9, 2012|access-date=April 13, 2011}}</ref> His wife, Bobbe, survived him. Van Heusen is buried near the Sinatra family in [[Desert Memorial Park]], in [[Cathedral City, California]].<ref name=PSCemDis/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Patricia|title=Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous |chapter=Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert |page=239 |year=2006|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|location=Guilford, CT|isbn=978-0762741014|last2=Brooks |first2=Jonathan |oclc= 70284362}}</ref> His grave marker reads [[Swinging on a Star]].<ref>{{find a Grave|3218|James "Jimmy" Van Heusen}}</ref>