Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about the end of the world: boy (Gregory Peck) does not get girl (Ava Gardner...
...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...
...length to make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails sadly into the contaminated dawn...
...anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
Divorced. Mickey Rooney. 38, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) Hollywoodian admirer of taller girls (his first three wives: Ava Gardner, 5 ft. 5½ in.; Betty Jane Rase, 5 ft. 7½ in.; Martha Vickers, 5 ft. 4 in.); by Elaine Mahnken, 29, 5 ft. 5 in. ex-model; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...