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About this book
"Details Sinatra and Gardner's tumultuous romanceĀ .Ā .Ā . all the while painting a broader portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age." ā
USA Today
When Ava Gardner was emerging as a movie star, she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and numerous others, along came Frank Sinatra.
His passion for Ava destroyed his marriage and brought him close to ruin. Their wild affair broke all the rules of the prudish era as Frank left his wife and children and pursued Ava on an international stage. They became romantic renegades, with the press following them from location to location. They married, but then came the quarrels, separations, infidelities, and reconciliations. Eventually, there was a divorce, and they thought it was over. It wasn't.
Through all of the tortured years of separation and splintered affairs with others, they maintained a secretive relationship known only to those who recognized that this was the love of a lifetime. Over the years they attempted to reconcile, romanced and nurtured each other, right to the end.
The love story of Frank and Ava has never been fully explored or explainedāuntil now. John Brady's Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship. More than anything else, this is the story of a romance lived out under battlefield conditions.
When Ava Gardner was emerging as a movie star, she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and numerous others, along came Frank Sinatra.
His passion for Ava destroyed his marriage and brought him close to ruin. Their wild affair broke all the rules of the prudish era as Frank left his wife and children and pursued Ava on an international stage. They became romantic renegades, with the press following them from location to location. They married, but then came the quarrels, separations, infidelities, and reconciliations. Eventually, there was a divorce, and they thought it was over. It wasn't.
Through all of the tortured years of separation and splintered affairs with others, they maintained a secretive relationship known only to those who recognized that this was the love of a lifetime. Over the years they attempted to reconcile, romanced and nurtured each other, right to the end.
The love story of Frank and Ava has never been fully explored or explainedāuntil now. John Brady's Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship. More than anything else, this is the story of a romance lived out under battlefield conditions.
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eBook ISBN
9781466881570Subtopic
Music BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1. She Canāt Act, She Canāt Talk, Sheās Terrific
- 2. Frankie Comes to Hollywood
- 3. The Education of a Femme Fatale
- 4. More Stars Than There Are in Hoboken
- 5. Hollywood Department of Public Affairs
- 6. Americaās Original Reality Show
- 7. A Star Is Reborn
- 8. The Barefoot Diva
- 9. Of Rats and Men
- 10. Top of the Heap
- 11. Twilight of the Goddess
- 12. There Are No Third Acts in American Lives
- 13. Down and Out in London
- 14. The Final Curtain
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Also by John Brady
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright