Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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Frank flew to Ava's side in Spain, where she's making a movie. Here they have tea with Mrs. Frank Grant. Is it love — or a strange interlude? Nancy keeps faith — and in her heart she prays that Frank will come back. By SALLY BURNS 3 u 1 1 fighter Mario Cabre, starred with Ava in Pandora and The Flying Dutchman, publicly declared his undying love for her. TRAGIC TRIANGLE Frank Sinatra wears his heart on his sleeve. He always has, and he always will. It's part of his lack of discipline, part of his willful, charming, generous nature. He loves and he hates quickly. He went out with Ava Gardner twice, he forgot he was a married man, and he fell for her the way coal shuttles into a cellar basement. Ava suddenly received a beautiful little spinet piano, and everyone knew at once: Frankie had fallen in love. His studio denied it. "Why," one exasperated publicity woman demanded, "do people go around making up these stories? It's silly and it's stupid." A day later. Ava and Frank were photographed in a Houston, Texas, restaurant. Frank had been crooning at Glenn McCarthy's Hotel Shamrock, and Ava had flown East to visit him. She didn't fly for the exercise, and she didn't fly because she likes to see Grand Canyon from the air. She flew to Houston, because she loved Frank, and loving him, she wanted to be near him. When Ava took that trip, she knew full well that she was taking a chance, risking her career, her good name, her good reputation. But she took it anyway. When you've spent a lot of time with a man, and he leaves, there comes into your life this horrible void, and you simply must see the object of your heart again. You are all desire and emotion and the common-sense considerations of the day never figure in your thinking. There are many people who know Ava very slightly, who misinterpret her flip manner for one of nonchalance. These are the persons who would have you believe that the love affair has always been one-sided. These are the gossip-mongers who spread the ridiculous story that Frank tried to commit suicide in the Hampshire House in New York. "Oh, yes," they said, "Ava told him they were all washed up, and then Frank said, 'If you leave me, I swear I'll shoot my brains out,' and she said, 'Good {Continued on page 101)