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...Ava Gardner and her ex-husband Frank Sinatra, separately or in pair, have never stood high on the State Department's list of good-will ambassadors. That, as they make clear, is not what they are hired for. Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
...misery of the human condition still lay ahead of him. In the movie (filmed in Rome because the Alba family prevailed on Franco to lock the moviemakers out of Spain), "Paco" Goya is a beardless, hot-blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type who prefers saloons to salons, eyes him ravishingly after he rescues her from a ruffian in a tavern. In a twinkling, Paco packs off to the South to love and limn her for the ages...
Jaunty and rakish despite some uncharacteristic makeup (for one of his rare TV appearances in a filmed mellerdrama), veteran Hoofer Fred Astaire, 60, shared a grin on the set with misty-eyed Daughter Ava (she pronounces it Ah-va), 16, who with Daddy's encouragement studies drama at her tony Hollywood finishing school, does her lab work in local amateur theatricals...
...world's capitals, shopping for new ideas. The tour became a triumphal procession and a tonic for the dispirited President of a mismanaged nation. He arrived in the U.S. quoting Abraham Lincoln, got a ticker-tape welcome in New York City, saw Hollywood (he was disappointed to miss Ava Gardner, who was off in Spain), made an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He told the Congressmen that "we of Indonesia are in the stage of national turmoil through which America passed some 150 years ago. We ask you to understand," and won hearty applause...
...Rome, thrice-married Cinemactress Ava Gardner said four times was out, described her near, dear companion, Italian Comic Walter Chiari; as just an "attentive, affectionate, charming friend." Mourned Chiari: "I could be ready for the ceremony in ten minutes...