Word: barbato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three previous tries at love and marriage, crotchety Crooner Frank Sinatra is announcing his willingness to fall into the tender trap once more. Frank, 60, who enjoyed matrimony successively with Childhood Sweetheart Nancy Barbato and Actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, has promised he will soon be getting to the church on time with Barbara Marx, in her forties, a former Las Vegas showgirl, model and ex-wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo. "Yes, it's true, but it's nobody's goddam business," grumped Frank last week, suggesting that he had had high hopes...
...Columbia for an insulting $8,000 to play 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...