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BY MICHAEL SHERIDAN
REALLY FIGHT!
It's more than petty quarrels and temperament that keeps them from marital bliss
Never, in all of Hollywood's long, exciting, and often turbulent history, has any movie marriage made newspaper headlines as consistently and unfortunately as the bhssful-cum-hectic-cum-ideal-cum-explosive Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra menage.
Today, just one year and three months, after their stormy wedding in Pennsylvania, dark clouds still hover over America's most melodramatic marital episode of 1952. And the question remains the same: can their marriage, can ANY marriage survive the day-in and day-out tiffs, rifts, spats, and out-in-the-open fights of its temperamental protagonists.
Now, with Ava playing one of the biggest roles of her professional career in MGM's "Mogambo," in the heart of Africa, and with Frankie finding time hanging heavily on his hands, and forced to nurse a greatlyimpaired pocketbook by fulfilling whatever engagements he can pick up abroad, the Gardner-Sinatra union faces its supreme test.
It is no secret that Frankie put up a bitter fight against Ava going away so far from home, and for such a long period of time. The trip, plus commitments other than the "Mogambo" stint, may take as long as eighteen months. A lot can happen in that time — a lot that might not be too good for either party.
What Hollywood is wondering, then, is whether Ava and Frankie, who finally left together, in a fine display of fireworks, will return together — with or without more explosive sound effects. What everyone wonders is: how long can these verbal and physical histrionics go on. If their quarrels continue so far away from
Frankie and Ava fought furiously even before their stormy wedding and so became a target of criticism and pessimism.
home, the future looks mighty unpromising for Hollywood's most unpredictable and most publicized marriage since movies began.
But one thing is certain. It's a long way from Africa's "Mogambo" to Hollywood's "Mocambo," and both parties may find it hard to take the absence of friends to keep the alliance going — through their good counsel, understanding, devotion. It is doubtful, too, that Clark Gable, the other star of MGM's African epic and Ava's closest friend on the location trip, will care to act as referee to any of their free-for-alls. Mr. Gable is noted as a gentleman that stays out of fights, and he has had his own experience of weddings that don't hit it off at the start.
It is a sad commentary on Holly (continued on pace 52)