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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers.
Sinatra and Gardner first met in 1943 while she was at a club with her then-husband, fellow actor Mickey Rooney, according to the 2017 biography Ava Gardner: A Life in Movies. As time passed ...
The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz about the life and loves of fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It stars Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, and Edmond O'Brien.
Sinatra met Marilyn Monroe in 1954 (while he was still married to Ava Gardner, although some sources say that Sinatra and Monroe first met several years earlier) and was a friend of Monroe's second husband Joe DiMaggio, and after DiMaggio and Monroe divorced, he joined his friend DiMaggio and the writer James Bacon on a raid set up by DiMaggio ...
A revised edition of 'Sinatra: Behind the Legend' by celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli paints a harrowing picture of Sinatra's love affair with screen siren Ava Gardner — one that ...
According to Reid, Evelyn is loosely based in part on actresses Elizabeth Taylor, who was married eight times to seven different men, and Ava Gardner, who revealed the secrets of her life to a journalist, who published them in Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations. Reid has also said Rita Hayworth was an influence on Evelyn. Hayworth, whose ...
Dominguín was a socialite, having friends like Pablo Picasso and romantic relationships with the American actress Ava Gardner and the fashion model China Machado. [2] In 1955 he married actress Lucia Bosè , [ 3 ] who gave birth to his son Miguel Bosé , a Grammy award-winning singer.
Sailing with Ava Gardner. ... She was 22 and six months pregnant when she boarded the SS United States in New York City to visit her husband, an airman stationed in Wethersfield, England, in ...