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Santino "Sonny" Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. He is the eldest son of the mafia boss don Vito Corleone and Carmela Corleone .
When Connie calls Sonny, he loses his temper and races off to find Rizzi. En route, Sonny is killed by Barzini's men in a hail of gunfire at a causeway toll booth. After Sonny's death, Vito seems to take a liking to Rizzi, and allows him to run a family-controlled labor union. When Michael becomes operating head of the family after Vito semi ...
Carmela "Mama" Corleone is a fictional character who appears in Mario Puzo's The Godfather, as well as its first two film adaptations.She is portrayed by Morgana King.She is the wife of Vito Corleone and the mother of Sonny, Fredo, Michael and Connie Corleone, and the adoptive mother of Tom Hagen.
Sonny takes over as acting Don of the Corleone family. After a second assassination attempt on Don Vito, Sonny has Bruno Tattaglia, son of Don Tattaglia, assassinated. The situation escalates further when Don Vito's youngest son Michael murders both Sollozzo and corrupt police officer Captain McCluskey during a meeting in the Bronx , which ...
After Sonny is killed, Vito chooses Michael as his successor of the Corleone Family. This creates a lasting rift between the two surviving brothers. When Michael learns that Greene slapped Fredo, he is angered and confronts Greene, but is also dismayed when Fredo comes to Greene's defense.
She is the sister of Sonny, Fredo, and Michael Corleone and the adopted sister of Tom. In 1945, she marries Sonny's friend Carlo Rizzi . [ 2 ] Vito disapproves of the match, as Carlo's mother is from Northern Italy rather than Sicily , and only agrees to the marriage on the condition that they have a traditional Sicilian wedding.
The 84-year-old recently released a memoir, "Sonny Boy," which chronicles his decades in Hollywood, including his belief that "The Godfather" was going to be "the worst picture ever made."
After Sonny's death, Don Corleone agrees to lend his political protection to the enterprise and forgive the other families for having his son killed. Although it initially appears that Don Philip Tattaglia is responsible for organizing the anti-Corleone alliance, Vito soon realizes that Barzini is the true mastermind.