Where to start / Ava Gardner
Most of Ava Gardner’s 70-odd movies can wait. Choose by director, start with The Killers, and leave 55 Days at Peking off the list for now.
Continue readingScandals and rivalries / Ava Gardner
Gardner cited mental cruelty in 1943, blamed Rooney’s gambling and womanizing only in private, and settled for $25,000 while his Andy Hardy image stayed intact.
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Scandals and rivalries / Ava Gardner
In her autobiography, Gardner named Sinatra the love of her life. Her taped talks with ghostwriter Peter Evans, which stopped after she learned Sinatra had once sued him, also recorded the cheating and the fights.
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Scandals and rivalries / Frank Sinatra
Barry Keenan, Johnny Irwin and Joe Amsler were caught within days of the 1963 kidnapping but served only fractions of their long sentences, and the mastermind ended up a successful real estate developer.
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Scandals and rivalries / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra spent less than 16 hours in jail in 1938 on a seduction charge that collapsed when his accuser turned out to be married. A reported adultery charge was dropped too.
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Scandals and rivalries / Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner married Mickey Rooney in 1942 because he kept asking, not because she loved him. MGM, protecting Andy Hardy, held the wedding in a remote town.
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Mark Sandrich 1934
Mark Sandrich 1935
William A. Seiter 1935
George Stevens 1936
Mark Sandrich 1936
Leo McCarey 1937
Mark Sandrich 1937
Howard Hawks 1938
Howard Hawks 1939
George Cukor 1940
Howard Hawks 1940
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