Weeks after the pair's divorce became . Ava met the man who would become her third husband while she was still married to her first. Fewer than a dozen other bouquets marked the grave, including a wicker basket of yellow roses from singer Lena Horne, with a card that read, I love you., Singer Frank Sinatra, Gardners last husband, sent a wreath of pink roses and carnations with a card signed simply, Francis., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Texas congressman who broke with GOP is censured, Hong Kong court convicts activists behind Tiananmen vigil, Election conspiracies fuel dispute over voter fraud system, Desperate mountain residents trapped by snow beg for help; We are coming, sheriff says, Newsom, IRS give Californians until October to file tax returns, Californias snowpack is approaching an all-time record, with more on the way. 72, of Cary, N.C., who braved a cold drizzle for two hours before the funeral began. Ava Gardner, the barefoot beauty who walked out of the North Carolina tobacco fields to become a Hollywood love goddess, was buried today in a pink gown beneath the stately magnolias of a wind-swept family graveyard. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. You can unsubscribe at any time. 'It was enormous' Frank Sinatra's secret weapon for seducing women Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. It was not the first time Sinatra had had an affair. The television film Maggie, Gardner's last, would premiere in 1986.Gardner died of pneumonia on January 25, 1990; it was Frank Sinatra who took care of the funeral. It had been 15 years since shed last allowed any photographer to shoot her, but meeting production photographer Tom Zimberoff on the Tunisia set of Anno Domini (A.D.) in 1983 changed that course. Frank's publicist used some (most likely mafia) connections to get them out of jail at 3 a.m. "God knows how we got away with it. In 1960, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions as a recording artist, in addition to TV and films. Both had jet-black hair and exotic good looks. Actress and close friend Ruta Lee said: "Those fabulous blue eyes of Frank Sinatra were so piercing when he was with you those blue eyes stayed with you, you felt like he was entering your soul, it was something incredible.". His initial break came in 1935, when he received first prize in a radio contest. And paint. Some of Zimberoffs outtakes would wind up in the stars posthumous autobiography Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, written with Peter Evans; others got published in magazines.

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