Hello everyone, regrettably, the cover story for this video was inadvertently removed during the editing process. Here's the script we intended to publish: Gardner’s first marriage, to MGM superstar Mickey Rooney, was far from ideal-but the way it came crashing down was utterly brutal. They were still in their honeymoon phase when Gardner suddenly became terribly ill. She had to spend several weeks in a Los Angeles hospital to recover after an emergency appendectomy. When doctors finally released her, she was ecstatic to return home-but heartbreak was the only thing there to await her return. Gardner excitedly returned to the Westwood apartment she shared with the diminutive comic, only to make a disturbing discovery. She found evidence that while she’d been in the hospital, he’d been sleeping with another woman…in their bed. Their short marriage had never exactly been a fairytale, yet Gardner did stick around for a little longer. Eventually, the infidelity became all too much, and Gardner filed for divorce. We love our community and hope you enjoy all our videos!
The world-renowned movie star, David Niven, pronounced, "Ne-vin", there is no long "I" sound in his name. I really thought Ava Gardener had some real acting chops, probably due to the abrasive treatment she endured from her various husbands and others. Life enhancing skills based on her tragic history. Such a sad and lonely life.
I have heard much about her and Hemingway? I just did a quick lookup and realized that Ava worshipped the man and called him papa (a common nickname for him). She starred in several movies based on his novels and put her heart and soul into them. He appreciated that. They were friends to the end of her life.
She didn’t die from a fall. The morning of her death she was eating her breakfast in bed. She told Carmen she was tired and wanted to stay in bed a little longer. Carmen went to a put her pillow in the dryer to make it warm. When she went back to give Ava the pillow, Ava had passed away. These accounts of what transpired are from the writings of her niece Ava Thompson
She was ravishing in "One touch of Venus" in 1948! p.s. I met Mickey Rooney in 1981 & when I had my picture taken with him, I was only thinking of Ava Gardner!
Good analysis, and you treated this lady fairly. I must say that 1959 On the Beach was a good hit for Gardner, but not her last nor best. 1964 The Night of the Iguana was a superb hit, and Gardner got the best reviews of her career. Again, thank you.
I like your videos but your titles are misleading. There is nothing in there about Ava being rushed to the hospital or what she found when she got home. Very disappointing.
@@ceilconstante640 Even so, as a young man, I was deeply struck by her beauty and talent in the film Show Boat. Here was great beauty, great music, great acting, all rolled together to stir the heart of the young man that I was then. She had powerful magic. May she be at perfect peace.
Thank you so much for including the part about Ava making sure her housekeeper Ms. Vargas (probably more of a friend than an employee) and little pup would have somewhere to go. That alone speaks volumes as to what kind of person Ava was - the real Ava Gardner. I have been bingeing your videos this weekend - love your channel. Just subscribed.
It was more profitable for the big movie studios to keep their male lead actors single. They encouraged infidelity, drugs and alcohol abuse to keep them from breaking their contracts and media attention. Rooney was a pawn but ultimately it was his own responsibility to be a good husband and get help for his addictions. I hope that when he grew older he changed and became a better man.
her fall from a horse in Spain was the beginning of the end apparently. she suffered a facial deformity during that fall. all the years she spent seriously partying, drinking and smoking and whatever. she was a wild party girl and so beautiful. she loved Spain and avoided Sinatra like the plague later on - I watched a bio of her on tv not long ago. it didn't last long with Sinatra, although she left him pining for her. born so beautiful yet too much time spent in dissipation of hard drinking and smoking which ruined her looks and health, not a happy person. sad way to go.
Please; stop getting your information from trashy magazines, unauthorized bios and gossip. She did much more than drinking and being a party girl. Join her museum and family page and get to know the real Ava Gardner; not the myth.
there was a documentary on tv about her life and seemed to gather a lot of well known facts about her rise to fame.......how she was so fun loving but it was her fall from the horse in Spain and the downward spiral after that apparently (?) since it affected her face........RIP Ava.......we could all learn from other's mistakes.......@@Angelo_Manuel
She was a beautiful woman that had her share of life’s hard times, mixed with a variety of unworthy men, a bit to much booze and an industry that just didn’t care one way or another about who she was. When the time came for her to leave this world, she did so quietly with grace and without fuss. Her legacy in movies is still alive on tv screens around the world and that speaks volumes of who this beautiful woman really was.
Admire the fact that he and Judy Garland, as well as the other famous child-stars (Shirley Temple comes to mind) did well to survive and function as seemingly sane for as long as they did! The only medication they had then, was 'self-medication', i.e. alcohol and pills.
Gardner was barely 1 year older than Heston. FWIW, I think she and Robert Mitchum made a striking couple. She truly would have been a major star if it weren't for the heavy drinking. That kind of stuff creates obstacles that are hard to overcome.
You just reminded me of the movies I watched with my Mum as a kid growing up in the 50s, Gardner was a prominent star of the decade. Anyway an actress I admired very much. Thanks.
@@treasajackson6318 what I read was he wore her down, remember she was just a teenager and wanted to wait til she turned 19 I believe I read but he was "charming and persistent" and he was a most popular actor at the time....ugh. well, she got over it, apparently after they married he used to leave her home all the time while he went golfing......did you ever see him do that interview on TCM with Robert Osbourne *a lovely, lovely man *Robert, not Rooney). anyway, he was so weird that Osbourne later said he had to keep himself from bursting out laughing because he knew Rooney was serious. I think his little stature got to him and his ego or whatever. it seemed he was furious about losing power with producers or something.
@dittohead7044 SHE was,my grandfather told me,she was a Heartbreaker,,her ex boyfriends would come crying to him after she dumped them,,she have the same profiled, jawline, full lips ,she had the 1940s look,she was gorgeous,,as she age she was still pretty
I live in the county where she was born. My dad knew her when they were like 9 or so. While her ex husbands did not come to the funeral there was a massive floral arrangement sent with a note attached. It was signed "Love Francis" (Frank Sinatra) There is the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield North Carolina that is open to the public.
Thank you for that information. Most likely he knew that it would not do good for him to attend. Then, some people attending would probably be star struck and he didn’t want the attention to be on him during this difficult time for her family. Maybe more press would have followed him there and this was definitely not the place for that. Whatever the reason, it seems like she always had a special place in his heart.
@@mariluna7359 yes that...and also Frank was married to his last wife then - Barbara. She was extremely jealous of Frank and Ava - I mean they both said for years they were each others "love of my life" - which considering how short the marriage was can just be reminiscing about the past and " what could have been" in my opinion. Frank was married to Barbara until he died even though he helped Ava with her medical bills for many years. I am sure Frank and Ava loved each other but I think enough time has passed that they both knew they were better as friends than as husband and wife. They both drank an enormous amount - and had volitile tempers - never a good match for a lasting marriage. Ava wanted men but she damn sure never needed one since they all seemed fo bring her down. She was a fiesty broad and I am sure most men of that time didn't know how to deal with such a strong force of nature. And as far as Ican remember no one really famous came to Ava's funeral and the family, and even Ava herself, may have wanted it just that way.
@@windstorm1000 To be truthful, that wasn't stealing much. "Earthquake" was utter rubbish and would have been so with or without her or Heston or any other actor.
Actually, I think Ava was fairly satisfied when it came to love. She had her husbands and many other beau's through out her life. I think she was pretty well done with all that, by the time she got to London. She certainly never wanted children and didn't, as far as I know. Later, she had a hysterectomy, because as you stated, she was afraid of the cancer that got her mother. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the life and times of Ava Gardner, to read the biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley, called 'His Way'. There are some fabulously juicy lines in that book, and Ms Kelley does not mince words. I thoroughly enjoyed that book and think it is one the best biographies of Sinatra. I am sure some fans of his would disagree, but it is raw, honest and truthful, and I found it fascinating. Especially Sinatra's early life, his mother and the mob. But most of all, his relationship and obsession with Ava Gardner.
@@chuckschillingvideos This is true. Ava definitely had her vices. She may have been terrified of cancer, but other than that, I don't think she really cared too much, when people like Sinatra, would tell her to lay off the sauce, or take it easy with the smokes. Also, it hadn't really been established during Ava's earlier years, that cigs cause cancer. That wasn't really proven until the late 1960's and early 1970's, as I remember. She probably had no idea. I can actually remember when cigarettes were like 25 cents a pack in the late 1960's, and there were also still cigarette commercials on TV. Very different times compared to now!
It seems that the industry and the abusive men dragged her down as she was exploited, used and mistreated from the very beginning. It also appears that no one really loved her but treated her as a possession or status symbol. The right decent partner could have made all of the difference in her life. Sad way to go and maybe she had a masochistic streak to keep choosing these creeps.
Artie Shaw wanted plain haus frau women-- so then he perversely marries two of the most glamorous women in hwood. Who would look beautiful in rags. Go figure.
Mickey Rooney was one of Hollywood's most famous and well-connected stars in the 30's and into the 40's. He was tight with all the main players in the studios and definitely had the power to make an actress he was fond of a star. THAT is what she saw in Mickey Rooney.
@@12thDecemberI know, I was a teenager when I first saw that film, at the cinema. I thought, uuugggghh!!!! What does she see in that old man??! Now at my grand age, I'm not so fussy. 🤣🤣🤣
Poor Mickey had severe problems from childhood abuse in the film industry., as told by his co-star, Judy Garland. A lot of that is just coming out now. I had to rethink a lot of my judgements
He was very much in love with her. The love of his life but she drove him nuts. She was a female version of him. It couldn't work but they stayed good friends until the end.
He was rich, famous, and very well-connected (including to the Mafia). That made him highly attractive to many/most women. People seem to forget that the "bad boy" thing has always been a powerful attractant to many, perhaps most, perhaps nearly all women when they are young and haven't seen what these kind of men can do to them.
While filming "Mogambo", Gardner had a fling with the professional hunter the production company hired as a consultant/guard. This sort of thing was quite typical of her.
She was very beautiful and she could definitely act. She was terrific in Mogambo, and On The Beach. It does seem like the “Beautiful ones” male and female, cannot remain faithful. Perhaps that’s too hard in a place like Hollywood where beauty is the yardstick and character is no9 more than the roles they play.
She was stunning until she cut her hair short, strangely enough, and then the alcohol and smoking did the rest to take away her sparkle. Her southern accent would have been charming if they’d left it alone. The Bible is the best book ever.
Most men are not what they seem to be...this is why people shouldn't rush into datings & mariages and take the time to know the person enough well before any engagement ! WISDOM.
@@MadininaCarribean That goes both ways. When you are trying to start a relationship with someone else, you don't really reveal yourself fully. You show that other person the side(s) of you that you think will be most appealing to them. As the relationship progresses, you gradually (and sometimes not so gradually) reveal who you truly are and they do exactly the same thing. Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't. (Usually not).
I can’t believe she married Mickey Rooney 😬 but Mickey at the end of his life was abused by his wife elder abuse from someone famous to being abused toward’s the end that’s so sad ☹️
I love how her husbands get the full blame. She was hardly an angel - knowingly went into affairs with married men and had an affair whilst married, a drunk, and who knows what else. Picture perfect on the surface, but beneath, well, not so much.
All of that is true. And, sadly, very typical of Hollywood actresses over the decades. As well as Hollywood actors. The same penchant for narcissism and core of neuroses and a raging inferiority complex camouflaged with arrogance tends to do that to a person.
It seemed to ME, she married some men to further her career. Although, Sinatra was broke they say when she married him. I read she furthered HIS career and got him in to the movie. He was a passé teen idol wen they married it seems. She dumped Sinatra too. So, I think she married Rooney to further her career. He was the biggest Star going when she married that CRAZY little dude.
I had to use captions, but they go by so fast and there is no punctuation so it's hard to keep up and understand the story and watch the video at the same time. Clean up the captions; make them readable.
Typical story for most beautiful women like Ava Gardner, they always end up with the wrong guy who breaks their heart. A lot of beautiful women like Ava usually end up with the wrong guy because they pass by the better guy, the ordinary guy.
If you think that's true ONLY of legendarily beautiful women, I'm going to disagree with you. This sort of preference in women to link up to the bad or dangerous personalities, not the "safe", stable, and grounded individual, is prevalant, if not completely dominant in most young women. This, in some women, never truly goes away.
Believe it or not, when Mickey Rooney was at his peak in terms of celebrity, he basically had his choice of any woman he cared to be with. He was vastly more popular and powerful than people today realize, and from his perspective, Ava Gardner probably had little going for her other than her beauty. She wasn't making HIM more famous (it was the other way around), and he wasn't about to curtail his tomcatting ways just because of her feelings. And when she began mocking his height, I'm sure that was the final straw for him.
John Ford was a Director not Actor as you stated. You mispronounced David Nivan’s last name. Good video but these minor mistakes lead me to believe this video is not completely historically accurate.
Please, if you are going to make these videos learn the correct name of the movie Magombo and the correct name of David Niven. Also, the click bait is bs when anyone interested in her would watch it anyway.
But there is always the story that Frank Sinatra was at her bedside when she was dying is that not true I believe that was in her book too I'll have to read the book again to find out my memory is not what it should be I guess at 90 years old there's a reason for that lol. Well actually it's not my birthday yet till May2024 this is only April2024. So I'm still young LOL.
There are some - maybe even many. But the things that actors are required to do in order to achieve fame and significant career success are not conducive to the enjoyment of a long, happy and fulfilled life. It's a self-nullifying industry, if you hadn't noticed.
@@MadininaCarribean Confidence and power go a lot further, I'm told. And with certain women, giving a sense that you simply don't care either way if they want to be with you is the ticket. Never let a girl/woman know your true feelings when initiating a relationship.
Full of rubbish. Disjointed. Glaring omissions. Written by people who know nothing about Ava. And not forgetting inaccuracies. Made me angry. Ava was famous like few actresses have been . An international star who seemed to fascinate everyone on 5 continents of the world! She hated her career and hid from all publicity just when she became a legend. Made movies to pay her bills but refused to ever live in Hollywood but Spain
Excuse me?! She actually was very bright and highly cultured! I don’t know where you get your “0” for intellect. She surrounded her self with intellectuals and was a voracious reader. Gorgeous and smart I say!
@@Angelo_ManuelDid you watch the video ?! Or are you just charmed be the beauty visually ?! It was said to you, the viewer, "she has read 2 books in her life - the Bible ans "Gone with the wind". She was not surrounded by intellectuals - she was surrounded by MEN, who desired her ! The best intellectual of that time T.Capote... oh, well, you need to watch it again. And listen attentively !!!
@@elenagill-yn7swI will be gentle. You obviously don’t know ANYTHING about Ava Gardner. I am very close to some members of her family, also to her trust and her Museum in North Carolina. I can see where you get your “knowledge” about Gardner; a bit sad. Yes; when she marry Artie Shaw the only books she have read were GWTW and the Bible. During that marriage she attended school while also working as a young actress. She took an IQ TEST AFTER being traumatized by Shaw’s treatment and proved to score very high indeed. From then on she became a voracious reader and indeed had Hemingway, Tennessee Willams and Frost among her literate friends. She also lived in Madrid for 12 years and equally to partying she was surrounded by the best of people. More than being a “party girl” she was one of the most world travel and culture celebrity of her days. Yes; I know what I’m talking about. Yes; I find her wild but never vulgar. Yes; she was much more than a party girl. Lastly, she was STUNNING and very humble. Thank you
@@elenagill-yn7swlastly to say Truman Capote was the best of that time is not true! Capote was in the 60’s. He also was a gossip queen. I take Tennessee Williams and Hemingway 100 times more!
@@elenagill-yn7swwatch again and listen attentively!? 😂😂😂 No; I rather continue reading the truth about her life. I suggest you do the same. I bet you did not notice in the video that they said she arrived in Hollywood in 1939. WRONG. She arrived in Hollywood in 1942. Again; I know what I’m talking about. Godspeed lady.
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Hello everyone, regrettably, the cover story for this video was inadvertently removed during the editing process. Here's the script we intended to publish:
Gardner’s first marriage, to MGM superstar Mickey Rooney, was far from ideal-but the way it came crashing down was utterly brutal. They were still in their honeymoon phase when Gardner suddenly became terribly ill. She had to spend several weeks in a Los Angeles hospital to recover after an emergency appendectomy. When doctors finally released her, she was ecstatic to return home-but heartbreak was the only thing there to await her return.
Gardner excitedly returned to the Westwood apartment she shared with the diminutive comic, only to make a disturbing discovery. She found evidence that while she’d been in the hospital, he’d been sleeping with another woman…in their bed. Their short marriage had never exactly been a fairytale, yet Gardner did stick around for a little longer. Eventually, the infidelity became all too much, and Gardner filed for divorce.
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The world-renowned movie star, David Niven, pronounced, "Ne-vin", there is no long "I" sound in his name. I really thought Ava Gardener had some real acting chops, probably due to the abrasive treatment she endured from her various husbands and others. Life enhancing skills based on her tragic history. Such a sad and lonely life.
@@nancyvillines4552This is what happens when AI reads your script.
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I have heard much about her and Hemingway? I just did a quick lookup and realized that Ava worshipped the man and called him papa (a common nickname for him). She starred in several movies based on his novels and put her heart and soul into them. He appreciated that. They were friends to the end of her life.
Hemingway died in 1961 & Gardner in 1990, so they couldn't have been friends, to the end of her life!
She dated Howard Hughes. I can't believe you didn't know that. Yes he was worth mentioning.
Hullo!!!!!!
They were on and off friends for almost 25 years. She was cautious about him, they were friends.
She didn’t die from a fall. The morning of her death she was eating her breakfast in bed. She told Carmen she was tired and wanted to stay in bed a little longer. Carmen went to a put her pillow in the dryer to make it warm. When she went back to give Ava the pillow, Ava had passed away. These accounts of what transpired are from the writings of her niece Ava Thompson
True! She did not died from a fall. Also she did not arrived in Hollywood in 1939; it was 1942.
Thanks for the info. 💕 What a sweet gesture to warm her pillow for a nap. Now I need to research who Carmen was.
@@bettyvick2850 my pleasure . Carmen was her housekeeper and her friend . Ava made sure Carmen would be taken care of after her death
One of the most beautiful women ever on screen..
She was ravishing in "One touch of Venus" in 1948! p.s. I met Mickey Rooney in 1981 & when I had
my picture taken with him, I was only thinking of Ava Gardner!
Good analysis, and you treated this lady fairly. I must say that 1959 On the Beach was a good hit for Gardner, but not her last nor best. 1964 The Night of the Iguana was a superb hit, and Gardner got the best reviews of her career. Again, thank you.
In "On the Beach", she was only a member of an ensemble cast! In "Iguana", she had a more central role!
Ava Gardner was absolutely gorgeous. The only thing wrong with her was her Bad Taste in Men.
Amen. I can relate.
I have that same affliction!
She has zero morality as she said in her memoires.
All too many of her men were switched around between her and Lana Turner. Both could really pick ‘em!
Not just bad taste - it's that she was incapable of saying "no" to any of them.
I like your videos but your titles are misleading. There is nothing in there about Ava being rushed to the hospital or what she found when she got home. Very disappointing.
I understand the idea is to create interest but when it happens too much I lose interest.
@@ceilconstante640 Even so, as a young man, I was deeply struck by her beauty and talent in the film Show Boat. Here was great beauty, great music, great acting, all rolled together to stir the heart of the young man that I was then. She had powerful magic. May she be at perfect peace.
They sound like one of those stupid ads...
That’s when I start blocking channels 😂
I don’t like the narrator
I think everyone was taller than Mickey Rooney!
Thank you so much for including the part about Ava making sure her housekeeper Ms. Vargas (probably more of a friend than an employee) and little pup would have somewhere to go. That alone speaks volumes as to what kind of person Ava was - the real Ava Gardner. I have been bingeing your videos this weekend - love your channel. Just subscribed.
I can't believe she was married to Mickey Rooney!!
It was more profitable for the big movie studios to keep their male lead actors single. They encouraged infidelity, drugs and alcohol abuse to keep them from breaking their contracts and media attention. Rooney was a pawn but ultimately it was his own responsibility to be a good husband and get help for his addictions. I hope that when he grew older he changed and became a better man.
her fall from a horse in Spain was the beginning of the end apparently. she suffered a facial deformity during that fall. all the years she spent seriously partying, drinking and smoking and whatever. she was a wild party girl and so beautiful. she loved Spain and avoided Sinatra like the plague later on - I watched a bio of her on tv not long ago. it didn't last long with Sinatra, although she left him pining for her. born so beautiful yet too much time spent in dissipation of hard drinking and smoking which ruined her looks and health, not a happy person. sad way to go.
Please; stop getting your information from trashy magazines, unauthorized bios and gossip. She did much more than drinking and being a party girl. Join her museum and family page and get to know the real Ava Gardner; not the myth.
there was a documentary on tv about her life and seemed to gather a lot of well known facts about her rise to fame.......how she was so fun loving but it was her fall from the horse in Spain and the downward spiral after that apparently (?) since it affected her face........RIP Ava.......we could all learn from other's mistakes.......@@Angelo_Manuel
She was a beautiful woman that had her share of life’s hard times, mixed with a variety of unworthy men, a bit to much booze and an industry that just didn’t care one way or another about who she was. When the time came for her to leave this world, she did so quietly with grace and without fuss. Her legacy in movies is still alive on tv screens around the world and that speaks volumes of who this beautiful woman really was.
Mickey Rooney was not a good match!
For anyone from what I hear.
Admire the fact that he and Judy Garland, as well as the other famous child-stars (Shirley Temple comes to mind) did well to survive and function as seemingly sane for as long as they did!
The only medication they had then, was 'self-medication', i.e. alcohol and pills.
Mickey Rooney wasn’t good for any woman….
David NivenNiven like Given as in it's a given.
Gardner was barely 1 year older than Heston. FWIW, I think she and Robert Mitchum made a striking couple. She truly would have been a major star if it weren't for the heavy drinking. That kind of stuff creates obstacles that are hard to overcome.
In what world do you live? She truly was a mayor star; among AFI's 50 greatest screen legends.
I’m surprise no mention was made of her role in Night of the Iquana. It’s one of my favorite films especially because she was so great in it.
She was excellent as the tumultuous love interest of Richard Burton .
You just reminded me of the movies I watched with my Mum as a kid growing up in the 50s, Gardner was a prominent star of the decade. Anyway an actress I admired very much. Thanks.
To this day I can't understand how she married him.
me either. poor thing.
Yeah! The mind boggles 😊
She was very young, maybe she thought he'd help her career??
I don't know what she saw in rooney really.
@@treasajackson6318 what I read was he wore her down, remember she was just a teenager and wanted to wait til she turned 19 I believe I read but he was "charming and persistent" and he was a most popular actor at the time....ugh. well, she got over it, apparently after they married he used to leave her home all the time while he went golfing......did you ever see him do that interview on TCM with Robert Osbourne *a lovely, lovely man *Robert, not Rooney). anyway, he was so weird that Osbourne later said he had to keep himself from bursting out laughing because he knew Rooney was serious. I think his little stature got to him and his ego or whatever.
it seemed he was furious about losing power with producers or something.
Rooney wasnt a good match. He rapped young girls. Thought.he was entitled.
Rapped or raped?
I heard somthing in documentary about a rumor rega4ding him and 13 year liz Taylor.
I don't think that's true.
Sometimes being too beautiful is hard for a lot of people to handle.. she was that inside and out.😊
My mother looked just like ava,exactly the same face
She must have been gorgeous
@dittohead7044 SHE was,my grandfather told me,she was a Heartbreaker,,her ex boyfriends would come crying to him after she dumped them,,she have the same profiled, jawline, full lips ,she had the 1940s look,she was gorgeous,,as she age she was still pretty
You need to edit the title. It looks like click bait
Why have you described the famous director John Ford as " actor John Ford " ? Are you kidding me ? ! Viewers, am I the only one to notice this gaff ?
Nope. 👍
Gregory Peck was a true gentleman .
John Ford was a director - not an actor.
Did you even mention one of her best movies "Night of the Iguana" ???
I live in the county where she was born. My dad knew her when they were like 9 or so. While her ex husbands did not come to the funeral there was a massive floral arrangement sent with a note attached. It was signed "Love Francis" (Frank Sinatra) There is the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield North Carolina that is open to the public.
Thank you for that information. Most likely he knew that it would not do good for him to attend. Then, some people attending would probably be star struck and he didn’t want the attention to be on him during this difficult time for her family. Maybe more press would have followed him there and this was definitely not the place for that. Whatever the reason, it seems like she always had a special place in his heart.
@@mariluna7359 yes that...and also Frank was married to his last wife then - Barbara. She was extremely jealous of Frank and Ava - I mean they both said for years they were each others "love of my life" - which considering how short the marriage was can just be reminiscing about the past and " what could have been" in my opinion. Frank was married to Barbara until he died even though he helped Ava with her medical bills for many years. I am sure Frank and Ava loved each other but I think enough time has passed that they both knew they were better as friends than as husband and wife. They both drank an enormous amount - and had volitile tempers - never a good match for a lasting marriage. Ava wanted men but she damn sure never needed one since they all seemed fo bring her down. She was a fiesty broad and I am sure most men of that time didn't know how to deal with such a strong force of nature. And as far as Ican remember no one really famous came to Ava's funeral and the family, and even Ava herself, may have wanted it just that way.
I never used to have any interest in knowing about the private lives of actors but it's an interesting study.
Just timepass
Indeed😊
Ava quote: Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
We knew that. She's vain.
I believe her.
In Earthquake, Ava played Charlton’s wife thrown over for a younger woman.
She stole the whole movie from everyone with her campy histrionics.
@@windstorm1000 To be truthful, that wasn't stealing much. "Earthquake" was utter rubbish and would have been so with or without her or Heston or any other actor.
Actually, I think Ava was fairly satisfied when it came to love. She had her husbands and many other beau's through out her life. I think she was pretty well done with all that, by the time she got to London. She certainly never wanted children and didn't, as far as I know. Later, she had a hysterectomy, because as you stated, she was afraid of the cancer that got her mother. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the life and times of Ava Gardner, to read the biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley, called 'His Way'. There are some fabulously juicy lines in that book, and Ms Kelley does not mince words. I thoroughly enjoyed that book and think it is one the best biographies of Sinatra. I am sure some fans of his would disagree, but it is raw, honest and truthful, and I found it fascinating. Especially Sinatra's early life, his mother and the mob. But most of all, his relationship and obsession with Ava Gardner.
She was afraid of cancer yet smoked like a chimney and drank as though she was dying of thirst. Think about that.
@@chuckschillingvideos This is true. Ava definitely had her vices. She may have been terrified of cancer, but other than that, I don't think she really cared too much, when people like Sinatra, would tell her to lay off the sauce, or take it easy with the smokes. Also, it hadn't really been established during Ava's earlier years, that cigs cause cancer. That wasn't really proven until the late 1960's and early 1970's, as I remember. She probably had no idea. I can actually remember when cigarettes were like 25 cents a pack in the late 1960's, and there were also still cigarette commercials on TV. Very different times compared to now!
There is a really nice museum off of 95 in NC in Smithfield. Worth a stop if you are in the area.
Factinate? More like 'Factnot'!
Her problems with micky is proof that comming to a man beautiful and a virgin is no gurante the marriage will be good
There’s more to it than just being a virgin. She picked a very bad man
Rooney was a total moron .......to cheat on Ava was crazy.
What makes you so certain she was a virgin when she met Mickey Rooney? I know it feeds her narrative quite nicely, but....I highly doubt it.
For goodness sakes will you all STOP 🛑 nit-picking snout these video's. DON'T WATCH IF YOU ARE GOING TO PUT DOWN FACTINATE.
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It seems that the industry and the abusive men dragged her down as she was exploited, used and mistreated from the very beginning. It also appears that no one really loved her but treated her as a possession or status symbol. The right decent partner could have made all of the difference in her life. Sad way to go and maybe she had a masochistic streak to keep choosing these creeps.
But she could be a creep too. She was a drunk who had no problems being unfaithful while married ! She has her dark side too !
She looked like she adored him, her loving gaze
Artie Shaw wanted plain haus frau women-- so then he perversely marries two of the most glamorous women in hwood. Who would look beautiful in rags. Go figure.
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Thank you so much!
She was a beauty!!! Don't know what she saw in MR?
Mickey Rooney was one of Hollywood's most famous and well-connected stars in the 30's and into the 40's. He was tight with all the main players in the studios and definitely had the power to make an actress he was fond of a star.
THAT is what she saw in Mickey Rooney.
A real reason to not going out with the sleezeball, wish Nicole Kidman thought that way lol
it was Lana Turner who was discovered at a soda fountain, not Ava Gardner.
In the film Earthquake, Ava played Heston wife. Genevieve Bujold played the love interest.
20 years younger, and beautiful, than the grizzled looking Charlton Heston. Hollywood. Go figure.
@@12thDecemberI know, I was a teenager when I first saw that film, at the cinema.
I thought, uuugggghh!!!! What does she see in that old man??!
Now at my grand age, I'm not so fussy. 🤣🤣🤣
Mickey was a player.
Poor Mickey had severe problems from childhood abuse in the film industry., as told by his co-star, Judy Garland. A lot of that is just coming out now. I had to rethink a lot of my judgements
@@lol-zr9rc good point. I’m sure Hollywood was as abusive then as they are now. Especially with young talent. Few come out healthy.
Like most men...
He might also have had a complex, and was teased.
@@lol-zr9rc I believe it. most child stars have been through the pedo mill. Sad thing.
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I refuse to watch Rooney movies . I find him irritating to see on screen .
They didn't mention that Rooney was dressed as Carmen Miranda when he met Ava. Can you imagine? 🤡
I admit she is attractive
Sorry Sinatra wasn't that handsome.although my daughter and I sing new York. fun
No, Sinatra wasn't particularly good looking, but apparently, he was "legendary" in other ways, that greatly appealed to many women...
Neither was Rooney
Maybe once he was. Then all of a sudden he was old. He played dana carveys grandfather
He was very much in love with her. The love of his life but she drove him nuts. She was a female version of him. It couldn't work but they stayed good friends until the end.
He was rich, famous, and very well-connected (including to the Mafia). That made him highly attractive to many/most women. People seem to forget that the "bad boy" thing has always been a powerful attractant to many, perhaps most, perhaps nearly all women when they are young and haven't seen what these kind of men can do to them.
While filming "Mogambo", Gardner had a fling with the professional hunter the production company hired as a consultant/guard. This sort of thing was quite typical of her.
Her home town. was Grubtown NC. Real southern. sharecroppers!
I believe that photo is Ann Sheridan, not Ava Gardner
She was very beautiful and she could definitely act. She was terrific in Mogambo, and On The Beach. It does seem like the
“Beautiful ones” male and female, cannot remain faithful. Perhaps that’s too hard in a place like Hollywood where beauty is the yardstick and character is no9 more than the roles they play.
Too pretty for them. Rooney was just a little rundt. How did he get famous?
He had screen energy. Good actor
Mickey Rooney, was a, FOOL!!!!!!!!!!! HAD ALL OF THAT, AND COULDN'T KEEP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I heard that the Studio had her marry Mickey Rooney for publicity.
She was stunning until she cut her hair short, strangely enough, and then the alcohol and smoking did the rest to take away her sparkle. Her southern accent would have been charming if they’d left it alone. The Bible is the best book ever.
The naked Maha, something to remember
Generally very good, but don’t drop the last word of your sentences. That causes it to be unheard.
Artie Shaw wasnt what she thought he was
Most men are not what they seem to be...this is why people shouldn't rush into datings & mariages and take the time to know the person enough well before any engagement ! WISDOM.
@@MadininaCarribean That goes both ways. When you are trying to start a relationship with someone else, you don't really reveal yourself fully. You show that other person the side(s) of you that you think will be most appealing to them. As the relationship progresses, you gradually (and sometimes not so gradually) reveal who you truly are and they do exactly the same thing. Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't. (Usually not).
David Niven (Niv-en, not Kniven)
John Ford actor?
Why don’t you try talking about a successful Hollywood marriage where there is little or no baggage if you can find one, I won’t hold my breath.
Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges were married for sixty years. And two successful sons, Beau (Lloyd III) and Jeff. Also a daughter named Lucinda (Cindy).
@@FayeKramer-rl9xz Haven't heard of either of them though. Hollywood?
@@chris-in-oceania You haven't heard of Jeff Bridges ? The Fabulous Baker Boys.......The Big Lebowski ( He was THE DUDE !!!)
@@FayeKramer-rl9xz Because Dorothy Bridges was an exceptional person and there aren't very many others like her.
No mention of Night of the Iguana??? ......
She died of pneumonia and suffered from the same rare disease Robert Goulet died from: ideopathic fibrosing alveolitis.
I can’t believe she married Mickey Rooney 😬 but Mickey at the end of his life was abused by his wife elder abuse from someone famous to being abused toward’s the end that’s so sad ☹️
I love how her husbands get the full blame. She was hardly an angel - knowingly went into affairs with married men and had an affair whilst married, a drunk, and who knows what else. Picture perfect on the surface, but beneath, well, not so much.
All of that is true. And, sadly, very typical of Hollywood actresses over the decades. As well as Hollywood actors. The same penchant for narcissism and core of neuroses and a raging inferiority complex camouflaged with arrogance tends to do that to a person.
Ava was a terrible actress, but she was fantastic in Night of the Iguana.
It seemed to ME, she married some men to further her career. Although, Sinatra was broke they say when she married him. I read she furthered HIS career and got him in to the movie. He was a passé teen idol wen they married it seems. She dumped Sinatra too. So, I think she married Rooney to further her career. He was the biggest Star going when she married that CRAZY little dude.
I had to use captions, but they go by so fast and there is no punctuation so it's hard to keep up and understand the story and watch the video at the same time. Clean up the captions; make them readable.
Using your settings, you can speed up or slow down what you are watching. This allows longer time to read captions.
Thank you.
Typical story for most beautiful women like Ava Gardner, they always end up with the wrong guy who breaks their heart.
A lot of beautiful women like Ava usually end up with the wrong guy because they pass by the better guy, the ordinary guy.
If you think that's true ONLY of legendarily beautiful women, I'm going to disagree with you. This sort of preference in women to link up to the bad or dangerous personalities, not the "safe", stable, and grounded individual, is prevalant, if not completely dominant in most young women. This, in some women, never truly goes away.
Little man complex cant handle a gorgeous woman
Believe it or not, when Mickey Rooney was at his peak in terms of celebrity, he basically had his choice of any woman he cared to be with. He was vastly more popular and powerful than people today realize, and from his perspective, Ava Gardner probably had little going for her other than her beauty. She wasn't making HIM more famous (it was the other way around), and he wasn't about to curtail his tomcatting ways just because of her feelings. And when she began mocking his height, I'm sure that was the final straw for him.
John Ford was a Director not Actor as you stated. You mispronounced David Nivan’s last name. Good video but these minor mistakes lead me to believe this video is not completely historically accurate.
Please, if you are going to make these videos learn the correct name of the movie Magombo and the correct name of David Niven. Also, the click bait is bs when anyone interested in her would watch it anyway.
Goodness me she was stunning! I cant believe she was married to Mickey Rooney yuk
But there is always the story that Frank Sinatra was at her bedside when she was dying is that not true I believe that was in her book too I'll have to read the book again to find out my memory is not what it should be I guess at 90 years old there's a reason for that lol. Well actually it's not my birthday yet till May2024 this is only April2024. So I'm still young LOL.
That was true love.
Any of the stars have a happy life?
There are some - maybe even many. But the things that actors are required to do in order to achieve fame and significant career success are not conducive to the enjoyment of a long, happy and fulfilled life. It's a self-nullifying industry, if you hadn't noticed.
He was a little creep
I can't listen to your narration because you drop off at the end of every phrase or sentence and it is way too amateurish and annoying.
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Mickey Rooney!!?
Mickey Rooney? SMH
Yeah he had nothing physically. Proof that looks aren't everything to seduce a woman.
@@MadininaCarribean Confidence and power go a lot further, I'm told. And with certain women, giving a sense that you simply don't care either way if they want to be with you is the ticket. Never let a girl/woman know your true feelings when initiating a relationship.
You didn't mention Night of the Iguana???? She was marvelous in that. Your research sucks. Learn to pronounce actor's names
Full of rubbish. Disjointed. Glaring omissions. Written by people who know nothing about Ava. And not forgetting inaccuracies. Made me angry. Ava was famous like few actresses have been . An international star who seemed to fascinate everyone on 5 continents of the world! She hated her career and hid from all publicity just when she became a legend. Made movies to pay her bills but refused to ever live in Hollywood but Spain
Woke nonsense.
Clickbait.......
Shame on you, have you no decency sir??
SHE WAS A GODDESS AND LIVED HER LIFE WITH THE CARDS SHE WAS DELT. BUT SHE LIVED IT.
Please pronounce the names of your subjects correctly; it is AVA, not EVA. Ive noticed this in other of your wonderful videos. Thank you.
She was "the actress of the 50-s" - mandatory beauty, intellectually =0, ambitious... Beauty opens a lot of doors in anybody's life. AMEN.
Excuse me?! She actually was very bright and highly cultured! I don’t know where you get your “0” for intellect.
She surrounded her self with intellectuals and was a voracious reader. Gorgeous and smart I say!
@@Angelo_ManuelDid you watch the video ?! Or are you just charmed be the beauty visually ?! It was said to you, the viewer, "she has read 2 books in her life - the Bible ans "Gone with the wind". She was not surrounded by intellectuals - she was surrounded by MEN, who desired her ! The best intellectual of that time T.Capote... oh, well, you need to watch it again. And listen attentively !!!
@@elenagill-yn7swI will be gentle. You obviously don’t know ANYTHING about Ava Gardner. I am very close to some members of her family, also to her trust and her Museum in North Carolina. I can see where you get your “knowledge” about Gardner; a bit sad. Yes; when she marry Artie Shaw the only books she have read were GWTW and the Bible. During that marriage she attended school while also working as a young actress. She took an IQ TEST AFTER being traumatized by Shaw’s treatment and proved to score very high indeed. From then on she became a voracious reader and indeed had Hemingway, Tennessee Willams and Frost among her literate friends. She also lived in Madrid for 12 years and equally to partying she was surrounded by the best of people. More than being a “party girl” she was one of the most world travel and culture celebrity of her days.
Yes; I know what I’m talking about. Yes; I find her wild but never vulgar. Yes; she was much more than a party girl. Lastly, she was STUNNING and very humble.
Thank you
@@elenagill-yn7swlastly to say Truman Capote was the best of that time is not true! Capote was in the 60’s. He also was a gossip queen.
I take Tennessee Williams and Hemingway 100 times more!
@@elenagill-yn7swwatch again and listen attentively!? 😂😂😂
No; I rather continue reading the truth about her life. I suggest you do the same.
I bet you did not notice in the video that they said she arrived in Hollywood in 1939. WRONG. She arrived in Hollywood in 1942.
Again; I know what I’m talking about.
Godspeed lady.
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