Love Story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner

We are looking for love and striving for it, dreaming of meeting the very person, who will become our soulmate. However, life can be quite strange and sometimes even cruel, and not always the one who has become the meaning of life for us, treats us the same way. Charisma, beauty, and ability to present oneself in society are unimportant when you meet singles who win your heart. People meet to give each other this wondrous feeling of love and start a happy relationship.  

And celebrities are not an exception. Their feelings are sometimes warmed up with rays of spotlights and glory, but anyway, nothing human is alien to them. Passion and love, pain and self-sacrifice, disappointment and hope are their eternal companions. Here is an amazing love story of celebrities of the last century who stirred up time and space. 

   

Big Love of Frank Sinatra 

For the USA, Frank Sinatra is not only the “most popular singer of the last century” but also a real legend and symbol of the golden era of Hollywood with all its trappings, starting with classic glamor, gangbangers, billionaires and to the atmosphere of greatness and unapproachability of cult figures.  

He was called the most desired man of the 20th century. His biography, in which incredible creative victories were connected with a close friendship with a president and political figures, criminal authorities and the first beauties, is one of the outstanding examples of a celebrity of those times. Talking about his great love story, it’s possible to say that it was only one. While all the ladies in his life were playing a secondary role, including even the most beautiful Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe, his passionate feeling for one woman shocked his heart so much that the great Sinatra lost his voice, went on the booze and tried to commit suicide. 

Her name was Ava Gardner. She was an actress, one of the most outstanding and posh Hollywood stars of the 40s and 50s, and an incredible beauty who was famous for her magnetic influence on men. There were legends about the power of attraction of this fatal beauty. Even Hemingway perceived her as a muse and called a favorite performer. When they met with Sinatra, she had been already twice married and had a breathtaking romance with multimillionaire Howard Hughes, who met such a wayward woman for the first time. Howard satisfied all the beauty’s whims, starting with outfits and to planes, diamonds. 

The Big Meeting 

The singer had a multi-children family, but he did not think that a family can be an obstacle to having love affairs. In the end, the power of such passion turned out to be of greater importance than striving for home coziness. 

The great meeting took place in 1950 at a movie premiere “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Friends and biographers described Sinatra’s emotional state after this meeting as insanity. He told, “She put something into my glass!” The feeling that had captured the best singer of those times destroyed him. Sinatra suffered, went mad with love and jealousy. It was difficult for him to be in competition with Hughes in presenting posh gifts, and his pickup technics did not work on Ava. Friends did not recognize Frank: one day he beamed with delight and happiness when Ava accepted his offer to dine with him, then he felt like a whipped puppy when she stopped taking him seriously. “I have got you under my skin,” Frank Sinatra devoted these words to Ava Gardner. In general, he wrote his best songs, being in love mode. 

Sinatra was good at loving to frenzy and madness, and this ability helped conquer the heart of such a stubborn woman. When she surrendered, people called their bright romance the “corrida of love” of two outstanding personalities and idols of the golden era. The clash of two passionate temperaments resulted in an obsession that swallowed both. Generous and bright Frank evoked in Ava emotions that she did not receive from Hollywood admirers and rich fans. They both were brainy, vigorous, impetuous and emotional, they had alike tastes almost in everything, starting with love for strong drinks, tasty food and to love on the edge of madness. It was the vigor of pure love, which they couldn’t resist. 

Forbidden Love 

At the same time, Frank and Ava had secret meetings because, for the whole society, he was Nancy’s spouse, and she had a relationship with Hughes. An accident photo of a reporter who had caught them together triggered the ascension. Trying to avoid scandal, Ava went to Spain, and Frank, who believed that he had been rejected, lost his voice because of grief. He went to her to the other side of the globe, but his beloved one had a casual relationship with a bullfighter. He was going to commit suicide, but Ava made him stop, promising to be with him. However, she deceived again, and her love affair with Richard Green resulted in an overdose of tranquilizers for Sinatra. And Ava surrendered. The long-overdue wedding was held in Philadelphia. Several years of perfect bliss became a reward for Sinatra’s sufferings.