The Statue of the Barefoot Contessa
While still dating Sinatra, Ava Gardner acted in the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa. The Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is regarded as one of her best, and it offered Sinatra something to remember as well. The studio gifted him a statue of Gardner featured in the film, which he placed in his garden. The statue remained in his garden for years after the two separated. However, the moment has come to take it down. Sinatra married his fourth and last wife in 1976, and she did not appreciate the notion of her husband having a statue of his ex-wife in his garden, so he eventually had to remove it.
The Statue Of The Barefoot Contessa
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Gardner’s 20-year contract expired in 1959, and she appeared in the post-apocalyptic picture On the Beach. It increased Gardner’s success, but it gave director Stanley Kramer headaches since people would swarm the beach to see Gardner while he was working. One of her next notable roles was in The Bible: In the Beginning, when she costarred with George C. Scott. Despite being married, the couple had an affair during the shoot. Scott, on the other hand, had some significant difficulties and became aggressive, even going so far as to kick down her hotel room door. Director John Huston had to enlist local mobsters to keep Gardner safe from Scott’s frightening actions.
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