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30 “Everybody wants to”: Eliot, Cary Grant, p. 1.
31 “It is true”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 105.
32 “Ah, Frank”: Gardner, Ava, p. 195.
33 “We did what we could”: Lana Turner, Lana, p. 168.
34 “Frank seemed to approve”: Gardner, Ava, p. 309.
35 “For God’s sake”: Ibid., p. 310.
36 “NOT CONFIRMED”: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 21, 1952.
37 “the Palm Springs police”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 101.
38 “COLUMNIST SAYS SINATRA”: Associated Press, Oct. 21, 1952.
39 “Frank’s in the bathroom throwing up”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 102.
40 “The problems were never in bed”: Kelley, His Way, p. 175.
41 “FRANKIE READY TO SURRENDER”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 165.
42 “I can’t do anything myself”: Ibid.
43 “Hey, Ava”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 249.
44 “So, Frank”: Ibid.
45 “Sinatra smelled like”: Kelley, His Way, p. 188.
46 “Frank was very nice”: Mary Edna Grimes, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2008.
47 “Goodbye, Dolly”: United Press, Oct. 3, 1952.
CHAPTER 32
1. She’s also said to have won him over with another variant of her most famous remark: when Ford introduced Ava to the English governor of Kenya and the governor’s wife, the director is alleged to have said, “Ava, why don’t you tell the governor what you see in this one-hundred-twenty-pound runt you’re married to,” and Ava is alleged to have replied, “Well, there’s only ten pounds of Frank but there’s one hundred and ten pounds of cock!” “Ford wanted to kill her,” one Sinatra biographer wrote—but given the fact (according to Maureen O’Hara) that the director constantly doodled pictures of penises, he probably would’ve been more intrigued than upset (Kelley, His Way, p. 190).
SOURCE NOTES
2 “It was quite”: Higham, Ava, p. 133.
3 “Clark’s the kind”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 253.
4 “on safari”: Gardner, Ava, p. 316.
5 “The movie company”: Ibid.
6 “once we settled”: Ibid.
7 “Make the spaghetti”: Bogdanovich, Who the Hell’s in It, p. 404.
8 “Why don’t you”: Peter Bogdanovich, in discussion with the author, May 2009.
9 “I had the strongest”: Gardner, Ava, p. 319.
10 “I often felt”: Ibid.
11 “The truth is”: Ibid.
12 “Let’s put it”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 23, 1952.
13 “You’re damn good”: Gardner, Ava, p. 324.
14 “For someone with”: Ibid.
15 “Jack Ford tried”: Ibid., p. 327.
16 “I don’t need this”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 170.
17 “He’s such a comical”: James Jones, From Here to Eternity, p. 246.
18 “Frank had never”: Gardner, Ava, p. 199.
19 “scared to death”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 170.
20 “The [screen] test”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 172.
21 “Since [Sinatra’s] was”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 170.
22 “CONFIDENTIAL”: Kelley, His Way, p. 214.
23 “AVA GARDNER STRICKEN”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 259.
24 “Frank, give the earrings”: Ibid., p. 260.
25 “When I was on my lecture tour”: Hedda Hopper, In Hollywood, syndicated column, Oct. 4, 1952.
26 “Spent a pleasant”: Edith Gwynn, Hollywood, syndicated column, Oct. 25, 1952.
27 “Where’s your wife”: Hedda Hopper, In Hollywood, syndicated column, Oct. 26, 1952.
28 “At the end”: Mark Rotella, “Simply Red,” New York Times, Aug. 10, 2003.
29 “A funny thing happened”: Leonard Lyons, The Lyons Den, syndicated column, Dec. 3, 1952.
30 “Is he good”: Hy Gardner, It Happened Last Night, syndicated column, Dec. 8, 1952.
31 “It’s pretty lonesome”: Hy Gardner, It Happened Last Night, syndicated column, Dec. 4, 1952.
32 “It’s all right”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 257.
33 “Ava couldn’t be alone”: Ibid., p. 258.
34 “he has a prior”: Hy Gardner, It Happened Last Night, Dec. 8, 1952.
35 “was given a birthday cake”: Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder, Dec. 16, 1952.
36 “Frank came back”: Gardner, Ava, p. 209.
37 “Then came the death wait”: Kelley, His Way, p. 191.
38 “Fred Zinnemann … has gone”: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, syndicated column, Dec. 3, 1952.
39 “Frank’s still in there”: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, syndicated column,