Golden Age of Hollywood

Scandals and rivalries / Ava Gardner

How Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra met: a nightclub in 1943, then MGM in 1949

Gardner and Sinatra first met in 1943, when she was out at a club with Mickey Rooney. Their affair only started six years later, after a second meeting at MGM, and it ended Sinatra’s first marriage.

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