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Ava is trying to save her marriage by running away from Hollywood. What she hasn't learned yet is, you can't run away from yourself.
BY MARSHA SAUNDERS
HEARTBREAK AHEAD
■ Ava Gardner, as Modern Screen predicted six months ago, has left Hollywood. She will probably not return until May 1954.
Her salary for that year-and-a-half overseas, according to her new contract, will approximate • $220,000 on which she will pay no federal income tax. This is, even for Hollywood pocketbooks, not hay.
But neither is it the reason Ava's on her way East. She is clutching at the straw that will take her away from Hollywood, and, she hopes, the troubles which she believes stem from there.
Ava doesn't particularly like Hollywood. She never liked it to begin with, and since her marriage to Sinatra it's become a downright phobia with her. She feels that Hollywood is basically an atypical community in which marriages perennially hover above the precipice of disaster.
From time to time she has looked at the list of Metro contract stars, those women whom she admires and with whom she works so .closely. Practically all the top-notch actresses with the exception of Jane Powell, have been divorced: Lana Turner, Cyd Charisse, Janet Leigh, Esther Williams. And it's the same at other studios.
There are so many temptations in the movie colony; so many designing and beautiful females that a marriage must have a rock-firm foundation in order to survive. Ava's hasn't.
Ever since she and Frank returned from Philadelphia, married, and triedto settle down in Hollywood, Ava has had the (Continued on page 74)
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Alone, Ava vent to the Davies party with Lana and Lamas, but she was reconciled with Frank soon atterwards. For Lana, this was the last evening she spent with her man.