Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
Gable's mission also calls for hard riding, fast shooting, smooth talking and some of the patented old swagger that endears him to fans. When reproached for ogling Ava instead of tending to business, he replies : "I just believe in living a balanced life-a little of this, a little of that...
Just for the record, a Manhattan reporter asked Ava Gardner how she liked married life on the third try. Frankly, said Ava, "I thought I was going to be blase -_. . but now when people call me Mrs. Sinatra, I break out into a fit of giggles . . . When I was younger, I used to think how wonderful it would be to have four sons. But I'm 28 now. It's too late for such a large family. I think I can be happy with two, maybe three kids...
Shaw, whose hasty marriage record includes Lana Turner, Kathleen Winsor and Ava Gardner, announced that he was going to try a cooling-off period this time before going to the altar. Said he: "For the first time in my life, I'm engaged." And, he asked, what is wrong with trying marriage again? "Just because I intend to marry for the seventh time, you'd think I was guilty of something...
...Germantown, Pa., a police court judge pronounced Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner man & wife...