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Frank and Ava

54 %|Dec 7, 2020|Drama

Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year 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 off-screen 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 Frank!s 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 ...

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Michael Oblowitz
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Harry Dean Stanton
Sheriff Lloyd
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Eric Roberts
Harry Cohn
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Lukas Haas
Officer Josenhans
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Dionne Warwick
Lady Singing the Blues
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Logan Sparks
George Evans
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Michael Woods
Joe Nelis
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Robert Miano
Hank Sanicola
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Richard Portnow
Walter Winchell
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Robert Catrini
Billy Wilkerson
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Hettie Lynne Hurtes
Dorothy Fuldheim
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Lora McHugh
Mercedes McCambridge
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Paola Saulino
Alida Valli
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Jacqui Holland
Lana Turner
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Chris Moss
Howard Rushmore
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Jerry Hauck
Robert Harrison
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Julia Silverman
Dolly Sinatra
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Michael Raynor
Meyer Lansky
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Dianna Camacho
Lauren Bacall
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Danny Pardo
Mario Cabré
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Emrhys Cooper
Montgomery Clift