On the Beach
1959
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By Cody Copeland / Nov. 20, 2020 11:54 am EST. He was once the world's most successful crooner, she a Hollywood starlet with the world on a string. Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were perfect for each other, right? That's what they thought, too, but the relationship that would define both of their careers was anything but perfect.
Jun 3, 2020 · Love at First Shot. The legendary love story of Gardner and her inamorato Frank Sinatra began with a bang. According to Server, in the fall of 1949, the very married and very drunk Sinatra...
Sep 21, 2023 · Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra first crossed paths at a club in 1943. At the time, Gardner was married to Mickey Rooney, whom she would soon divorce due to alleged mental cruelty. Meanwhile, Sinatra was married to Nancy Barbato, with whom he had two children.
Jun 16, 2022 · In London, Gardner confessed – and Jordan transcribed this confession into the last chapter of the book, which is titled Last of the Laughter – that she regretted not having become closer friends...
- Who Was Ava Gardner?
- Early Life
- Hollywood Career
- Off-Screen Life and Loves
- Life After MGM and Death
Ava Gardner signed a contract to be an actress with MGM in 1941, but it wasn't until her appearance in 1946's The Killersthat she became a star. Gardner's off-screen life was often as dramatic as the roles she played, with marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. Gardner died on January 25, 1990, at age 67, in London, England.
Gardner was born in Grabtown, North Carolina, on December 24, 1922. She was her parents' seventh child. When Gardner was 2 years old, she and her family were forced to leave their tobacco farm. Her father then worked as a sharecropper, while her mother ran a boardinghouse. The family always struggled financially, a situation that worsened when Gard...
Upon her arrival in Hollywood, Gardner was put into the MGM studio system to learn how to be an actress. Her thick Southern accent made speech lessons a required part of her training. Gardner was shy and intimidated by the process of appearing on camera, and, thusly, would sometimes drink beforehand to calm her nerves. Limited to bit parts at first...
Gardner's life in Hollywood was also busy off-camera. She met actor Mickey Rooney on her first studio visit in California. Rooney, then at the height of his career, ardently pursued her. As Gardner, heeding her North Carolina upbringing, was determined to remain a virgin until marriage, they wed in 1942, after first receiving permission from MGM. T...
Gardner left her MGM contract in 1958 but continued to appear in movies, including On the Beach (1959) and The Night of the Iguana(1964). Gardner received fewer job offers as the years passed, working only sporadically. After living in Spain for several years, Gardner moved to London, England, in 1968. She remained close to Sinatra, who called her ...
Jul 13, 2017 · Celebrity. Biggest Bombshells From New Ava Gardner Biography: Her Tumultuous Marriage to Frank Sinatra & More. The late legendary actress is the subject of Ava, a Life in Movies, a new...
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Jun 19, 2013 · Once Hollywood’s most irresistible woman—wed to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra—by 1988 Ava Gardner was nearly broke, ravaged by illness, and intent on selling her memoirs....
