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"If I got to return in Hollywood record and name two different people who have been most frantically and passionately in love with each other, I'd say Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were it." (Liz Smith) It began in Hollywood's fantastic time, when Ava was rising as a movie star. But she dropped in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wished another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her such as a dumb brunette, offering her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither relationship lasted per annum. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and numerous others, along came Frank Sinatra. His passion for Ava ruined his relationship and helped bring him near ruin. Their wild affair broke all the rules of the prudish period, as Frank still left his wife and children and pursued Ava on an international stage. They became affectionate renegades, with the press following them from location to location. "Oh, God, Frank Sinatra may be the sweetest, most wonderful man on the globe when he is at the disposition," said Ava. They married, but then came the quarrels, separations, infidelities, and reconciliations. Eventually there was a divorce, and they thought it was over. It wasn't. Through all of the tortured many years of parting and splintered affairs with others, they looked after a secretive romantic relationship known only to those who known that was the love of an eternity. Over time they attemptedto reconcile and romanced and nurtured each other right to the end. The love story of this few hasn't been fully explored or discussed - until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply in to the lives of the two iconic personalities and their turbulent lifelong romantic relationship. More than anything else, this is the story of your romance lived out under battlefield conditions.
