Frank & Ava : in love and war

The Resource Frank & Ava : in love and war
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Frank & Ava : in love and war
Title remainder
in love and war
Statement of responsibility
John Brady
Title variation
Frank and Ava
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has been told piecemeal, from one side or the other, but has never been fully explored or explained--until now. The story begins in Hollywood's golden age when Ava, ever insecure, was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her as a conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and others, along came Sinatra, who was battling his own insecurities--MGM fired him, his record company dropped him, and no one seemed to want him, except Ava. Their encounter led to an affair that broke all the rules of the prudish era. Frank was married with children. Their reputations could be ruined if this got out--and it did, as Frank left his family and pursued Ava across Europe while she taunted him. They married, but then came quarrels, separations, and reconciliations. Finally, there was a divorce, but even afterwards their long, hot, messy, glorious, painful romance stretched right to the finish line. Thoroughly researched and reported, Frank & Ava is not another storybook version of a Hollywood romance but a compelling drama of love and emotional war that left two iconic celebrities wounded for life"--
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Biography type
collective biography
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DLC
Dewey number
  • 782.421640922
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
ML420.S565
LC item number
B73 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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