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...months later, Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married (over Metro Mogul Louis B. Mayer's massive opposition). The studio sent a pressagent along on the honeymoon. "When you came down to breakfast, he was there," Ava recalls bitterly. "When you had your dinner, he was there. When you went to bed, he was damn near there." It was enough to make any husband jumpy. "On our wedding night," says Ava, "Mickey was so nervous. He kept writing letters to people and walking up and down...
Sixteen months later, they were divorced. "We were babies, just children," says Ava. "Our lives were run by a lot of other people. We didn't have a chance." A veteran Hollywood gossipist sees it differently: "Ava simply outgrew Mickey...
...series of routine movie roles, worked hard to lose her Southern accent, finally got a solid part in Whistle Stop with George Raft. Then little Ava ran smack into a hazard relatively rare in Hollywood-an Intellect...
...ever read was Gone With the Wind. Clarinetist Shaw (an alumnus of the New Haven High School and Manhattan's lower East Side) was not satisfied with being just a bandleader ("jitterbugs are morons"), but fancied himself as a serious musician and all-round intellectual. After he married Ava, in 1945, he set out to educate...
Pygmalion-Shaw continued to hack away at his Galatea until Ava had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, went to a psychoanalyst. When Shaw finally decided that Ava was not a promising pupil, Ava acknowledged the breakup with the classically laconic comment: "He told me to leave, so I left...