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Crooner Frank Sinatra, carrying on his round-the-world pursuit of Cinemactress Ava Gardner, entered new territory when he and Ava flew off to Mexico for "a quiet vacation" together. It turned out to be neither very quiet nor much of a vacation. At El Paso, when reporters asked if the junket was going to include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City...
...loaded with Hollywood celebrities, he sang from 11 o'clock at night until 7 the next morning. A growing number of influential admirers were fascinated by Lanza and felt a sense of mission to play some role in bringing his voice to the world. Among them was Frank Sinatra, who invited Mario to stay at his house during the furlough. Hedda Hopper and Walter Pidgeon also boosted him, and an RCA Victor agent signed him to a recording contract with a $3,000 bonus. Soon afterward, in January 1945, Mario got a medical discharge (reason: postnasal drip). He returned...
...Hollywood premiere (rhymes, in Hollywood, with "come 'ere"), photographers snapped a happy hand-in-hand pair: Crooner Frank Sinatra and Cinemactress Ava Gardner. It was their first appearance together in the movie colony. Now that his wife has agreed to give him a divorce, Frank explained, it was perfectly all right. Said he: "It gives me great pleasure and pride to be able to escort Ava to a public premiere. I've cared for her a long, long time, almost a year and a half...
After seven days, with another week still,to go, Martin & Lewis had outdrawn such favorites as Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra to break the Paramount's record for weekly receipts. The new mark: $150,000. Counting up their own take (50% of the gross, minus salaries for an orchestra and supporting players), the comics found that their hard work had paid them the highest one-week salary in the history of show business...
...deal. In television, ABC has been long on facilities (owning its own TV stations in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco), but short on entertainment talent and cash for further development. Paramount, whose famed stage shows have launched such luminaries as Danny Kaye, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Betty Hutton and many a name band, is long on entertainment know-how and cash...