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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...
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...
Glamour, sex, Ava Gardner, et al.! Oh, boy ! Just what Hollywood needs! . . . Half the world in slavery; U.S. morals in a questionable and precarious position, amply aided by Hollywood; and TIME [Sept. 3] says what Hollywood needs is GLAMOUR! Where, oh, where, is your sense of values...