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...Maggio in From Here to Eternity. That won him the Oscar for best supporting actor of 1953. The top again: $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year. By then he had left his first wife, the former Nancy Barbato, and had chased, married and been divorced by Ava Gardner. "I like broads," he said, and not a few photographers got punched out trying to keep track of them...
Scott pursued his co-star Ava Gardner around the set, and subsequently across much of Europe. After the film was completed, he had to be put into a nursing home to dry out. According to a friend, "he was really in love with Ava and wanted to marry her. But she didn't want to marry him." Even now he will not talk about it. It was in this same period that Scott was fired from a movie called How to Steal a Million after showing up five hours late for the first day of filming. Separated for some time...
...lounging, tan and beautiful, at poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She decided that he was just the chap to play her late husband, MGMogul Irving Thalberg, in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces. As it turned out, Actor Evans had one face: immobile. He also played Ava Gardner's bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. It was bad enough that Papa Hemingway did not want him in the film. Neither did Tyrone Power. Or Errol Flynn. Even Mel Ferrer turned thumbs down. "They resented the fact," says Evans with acuity, "that a pants manufacturer was playing Pedro Romero...
...Henry, vice president of MCA, concurs: "The old film styles will be popular again. There will be warm, pleasant love stories?if they can find the people to play them. One of the problems in doing love stories is that there are no Tyrone Powers and Ava Gardners. There is a need to get some nicer-looking people...
...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...