Welcome to the first episode of Lovers Forever! This season tells the story of Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Theirs was a Romance Of The Century--but before we get to that, we have to learn a little bit about their lives before they met, so that we have a strong sense of who each of these people were when they fell in love.
Sources! These are the sources I used for the whole season.
Books:
Brady, John. Frank & Ava - In Love And War. St Martins Press, 2015.
Friedwald, Will. Sinatra!: The Song Is You. Scribner, 1995.
Gardner, Ava. Ava: My Story. Bantam, 1990.
Grobel, Lawrence. Conversations with Ava Gardner. 1st ed., Lawrence Grobel, 2014.
Hamill, Pete. Why Sinatra Matters. Little, Brown and Company, 2003.
Jordan, Mearene. Living With Miss G. Ava Gardner Museum, 2012.
Kaplan, James. Frank: The Voice. 1st ed., Anchor, 2011.
Kaplan, James. Sinatra: The Chairman. 1st ed., Anchor, 2016.
Longworth, Karina. Seduction: Sex, Lies, And Stardom In Howard Hughes's Hollywood. 1st ed., Custom House, 2018.
Petkov, Steven, and Leonard Mustazza, editors. The Frank Sinatra Reader. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Server, Lee. Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing. St Martin's Press, 2006.
Films:
(these are just the films I referenced for the podcast, it’s not a complete filmography of either Frank or Ava.)
Ford, John, director. Mogambo. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953
Huston, John, director. The Night of The Iguana, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1964.
Kelly, Gene and Stanley Donen, directors. On The Town. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949.
Lewin, Albert, director. Pandora And The Flying Dutchman. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951.
Mankiewicz, Joseph, director. The Barefoot Contessa. United Artists, 1954.
Moguy, Leonide, director. Whistle Stop. United Artists, 1946.
Pevney, Joseph, director. Meet Danny Wilson. Universal Pictures, 1952.
Sidney, George, director. Anchors Aweigh. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1945.
Sidney, George, director. Show Boat. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951.
Siodmak, Robert, director. The Killers. Universal Pictures, 1946.
Whelan, Tim, director. Higher and Higher. RKO Pictures, 1944.
Zinnemann, Fred, director. From Here To Eternity. Columbia Pictures, 1953.