Movie Details
Original Language:English
Frank and Ava
Audience Score
DirectorMichael Oblowitz
1 hr 50 minDrama
Plot
Frank Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multiyear love affair and subsequent marriage In 1949 a downcast Frank his career on the wane because of a faltering voice a failing marriage and a tarnished offscreen reputation falls in love with rising star Ava by consensus the most beautiful woman in Hollywood While their love was incandescent they were hapless as a couple often pursued by reporters such as Hedda Hopper who played them off against each other in the tabloids casting Frank as an adulterer and Ava as a home wrecker while Franks wife Nancy Barbato refused to grant him a divorce Once married in 1951 the tabloids then paraded their sorted affairs whenever their careers separated them Often it was Ava who went off to Europe or Africa to make a movie leaving Frank behind In the meantime Frank career hanging by a thread is desperately trying to land the acting job that he
