Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

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"The pre-marital behavior of the stars has much to do with the eventual failure that besets their attempts at a happy marriage," reveals one of Hollywood's leading producers. "Both Ava and Frankie were responsible, over a long period of time, for incidents that were bound to make them the target of criticism and pessimism. "If they had behaved merely as two people deeply, sincerely in love — and had gone about securing that love with faith and sincerity, they would have made more allies than the enemies they couldn't help collecting. As it was, they attacked marriage like a bull entering a china shop — and the damage, right from the start, is done." Let's take a brief look at that harried, grotesquely -dramatic wedding of Ava and Frankie in West Germantown, Pa., where, in the presence of sixty-odd wedding guests, Frankie suddenly excused himself and rushed out of the house. Tearing past the policemen guarding each door and encircling the police prowl cars outside, Frankie descended on the six reporters, twelve photographers, and twenty "fans," and shouted hoarsely, "What are you creeps doing here?" Before anyone could say anything at this startling interruption, Frankie said, "No pictures, you understand. We've got our own photographer. You'll all get pictures — and in the meantime why don't you all get the hell out of here?" One photographer, a little bolder than the rest, said, "Pipe down, Frankie. We know you. I'll get my picture, don't worry." It was then that Frank Sinatra blew his top. "I'll bet you $500 you don't," he flared, "and if you do, I'll knock you flat!" Only Frankie didn't put it in quite such polite words, but he had attained his goal. The photographers got no pictures: just a stereotyped pose, handed out by the Sinatras, in which Ava smiled benignly, and Frankie scowled ferociously. Small wonder that the aftermath to the wedding was to have so much of the same flavor. From Hollywood came tales of squabbles, slamming doors, altercations in night clubs, Ava retreating to a friend's house, Frankie sitting sullenly alone, and exchanging surly monosyllables with well-meaning droppers-in. Then in October came the worst news. The Pennsylvania fireworks grew and grew and grew until, in Palm Springs, the Gardner-Sinatra idyll attained an explosion of atomic proportions. After eleven months of marriage, it was heard that Frankie had thrown Ava out of her desert home. And there was quite a bit of mystery as to how the whole thing had happened. Present were: the police; Lana Turner, actress; Ben Cole, business manager of both the feminine stars. They left when Frankie arrived, alone. Later Mr. Cole returned to the house and found Ava and her sister, Bea, having a dispute about Sinatra. The police, however, were still there. Says Mr. Cole, most tactfully, "I didn't stay around to see what it was all about, or what happened." In Palm Springs, Chief of Police August Kettman said, "I was off duty at the time. I really don't know anything about it. There is nothing on record about any alleged disturbances, and the charge sheets at the station are free of complaints." In which statement, the Chief of Police matched Mr. Cole's tact. But the incident had Palm Springs openmouthed and Hollywood typically agog with anticipation. Of the incident proper, Ava remarked: "1 have absolutely nothing to say relative to the matter." It looked, to one and all, that, at long last, the Gardner-Sinatra marriage was well on the way to the stormy shoals that might say finis to what started as the stormiest wedding of the year. Who was to blame in the rift that could have been the beginning of the end, no one quite knows. Take a quote from Ava, "I have only seen Frankie get mad when his anger is justified." And take a quote from Frankie, "We're both temperamental, we both want the most out of everything, and we have the normal quarrels of everyone who love each other very much." To such dialogue, a top Hollywood columnist retorts in print and person, "The reason of the quarrel is plain. Frankie has an ungovernable temper, and Ava will take a cocktail or two to calm her nerves. Frankie, who drinks rarely, doesn't like any drinking, moderate or otherwise, especially in a woman. What was on Frankie's mind that memorable afternoon in Palm Springs was Ava's forthcoming trip to Africa. Frankie didn't want her to go, and if she had to go, he wanted to go with her. And Ava, on that point, was adamant — she wanted to go alone. Hence the fireworks!" Be that as it may, no story about Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra is complete without at least one prognostication. This writer would like to make one: 52