Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Frank Sinatra, carrying on his round-the-world pursuit of Cinemactress Ava Gardner, entered new territory when he and Ava flew off to Mexico for "a quiet vacation" together. It turned out to be neither very quiet nor much of a vacation. At El Paso, when reporters asked if the junket was going to include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City...
Deeply wounded, Frankie took Ava off to Acapulco to do some nightclubbing with Hedy Lamarr and her new husband, Ted Stauffer, owner of a local nightclub. Hedy, however, pointedly snubbed Ava; and Frankie, this time with a bodyguard, found another fight when a photographer snapped a picture of the happy couple. While the bodyguard threatened to put a bullet through the photographer unless he gave up the film, Frankie shouted to reporters: "This is a private affair of my own, and I don't have to talk to anyone, you sonsabitches." The whole affair did not seem so private...
...Hollywood premiere (rhymes, in Hollywood, with "come 'ere"), photographers snapped a happy hand-in-hand pair: Crooner Frank Sinatra and Cinemactress Ava Gardner. It was their first appearance together in the movie colony. Now that his wife has agreed to give him a divorce, Frank explained, it was perfectly all right. Said he: "It gives me great pleasure and pride to be able to escort Ava to a public premiere. I've cared for her a long, long time, almost a year and a half...
...straight from the clover patch . . . We do not want Europeans to think all our women do is go around marrying Moslem princes and staging big maternity exhibitions, like Rita [Hayworth] did. Nor do we wish our dolls generally to get a reputation for flirting with bullfighters, as Ava [Gardner...
...Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man) in a small voice which, for all its amplification on the sound track, sounds...