Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lake Tahoe, Nev., singing his way through his six weeks' required divorce residence, Frank Sinatra scoffed at reports that he had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Grumbled the crooner: "I just had a bellyache; suicide is the farthest thought from my mind...
...face looks both inviting and expectant, as if she were forever waiting for something exciting to happen. She can curse like a truck driver. She makes no secret of the fact that she likes men. She proclaims her feeling for Frank Sinatra by wearing on a chain around her neck a miniature Oscar he gave her. She claims that women are not jealous of her, pays no attention to the fact that her women friends regard her as a bit on the calculating side. She is a farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When...
Enter Frankie. The Gardner legend flourished-and so did her box-office value. Just 19 months ago Ava ran into Frank Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs (they had met for the first time years before). Ava and Frankie left the party together and, in high good humor, rode along the main street of nearby Indio, firing a revolver out of the automobile window...
Their friendship continued to be percussive. When she was making Pandora and the Flying Dutchman in Spain, and seemed to be taken with versifying Bullfighter Cabre, Sinatra went charging to Spain and figuratively tossed the matador out of the ring (Cabre claims he failed to keep Ava because he did not speak her language, and is now fiercely learning English...
Last month, after Frankie and Ava (and a dozen reporters) finished a cozy Mexican holiday (TIME, Aug. 13), Sinatra went to work in a Reno nightclub to make some money toward his forthcoming divorce (Cracked one Hollywood wit:"He's earning while he's yearning"). Ava stayed at nearby Lake Tahoe and came to hear him sing. Sinatra meekly told the press: "I think you can safely say that Miss Gardner and I will be married...