Ava Gardner thought that she had killed her boyfriend Howard Hughes during a violent argument
The actor and the billionaire were in a very end relationship for two decades.
During the golden age of Hollywood, what happened behind the scenes and in the private life of his biggest stars was often more dramatic than what happened on the screen. Ava Gardner , for example, was considered a siren of the screen, having reached glory in 1946 The killers Like femme Fatale Kitty Collins. However, what the actor's fans may not know how dramatic and even violent love life was. Gardner was romantically linked to several other stars, including three famous husbands. But when she never got married infamous Howard Hughes , the two were in a long relationship on and outside the drag fights. During a particularly lively argument, wrote Gardner later, she thought she could have killed Hughes after throwing a rung at the head. Read the rest to find out more about their saga.
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Gardner got married three times.
Gardner arrived in Los Angeles of her original state of Caroline du Nord in 1941, a virgin sheltered with a thick southern accent. She met Mickey Rooney , then at the top of her career as an Andy Hardy, and fell in the lead. The two were married less than a year later, but it did not last long; In 1943, Gardner continued for divorce, Quoting "mental cruelty". His second marriage was also a short and tumultuous affair; She married the group leader Artie Shaw In 1945, only to obtain another divorce in 1946. His last marriage was from Frank Sinatra , lasted from 1951 to 1957.
While her weddings are exhausted quickly, her most sustainable relationship was that in which she refused to accept a proposal. Gardner met producer Hughes in 1943 , just after her first divorce, when she was 21 years old and he was 43 years old. In his autobiography, Ava: My story , published posthumously in 1990, she wrote: "What is incredible is that he was in my life, lit and disabled, for more than 20 years - but I never liked it."
Hughes carefully continued Gardner.
Hughes is best known today to be one of the most eccentric and ultimately recluse billionaires In American history, in particular burning all his wardrobe if he thought he had been infested by the germs, closing in the Pentens of various vegas hotels , and at the end of his life Carry silk boxes on its feet and refuse Cut your nails and nails . He once owned RKO Pictures, who went bankrupt in the late 1950s , partially due to the growing mental health problems of Hughes. (Today, it is understood that he had aggravated the TOC.)
Above all, the cinema magnate and the aviation enthusiast deliberately designed a meeting with Gardner, when he heard that she had separated from Rooney. As she said in her autobiography (via Daily mail ), "Nothing has ever been an accident with Howard, and when he read the story of my divorce in the newspapers, he decided that I was the new girl in freedom." However, it was far from being as glamorous as the rising star. "Howard never cared about what he was carrying, or what he looked like ... and he was never really aware of his personal hygiene," she wrote. That being said, she also wrote that her age made him one of the most worldly men of his knowledge of the time and "infinitely more serious and more intelligent and sophisticated than anyone [she] had come out to that moment ".
Their dates were also repetitive to the point of being ritualistic. "The first two times were fun - although eating a two in an empty restaurant could lack a little atmosphere," she recalls in her book. "It was as if we were two actors served by other actors on a candle scene."
They both had legendary temperatures.
Gardner and Hughes were a match in the room, she said. ("Let's say Howard Hughes was a pleasant surprise," she wrote.) However, the mixture of their personalities was too volatile. "Our chemistry was what explodes hydrogen bombs," she said, quoting this as one of the reasons why she refused her endless marriage proposals. "Until death made us have been much earlier than late if we had made the knot."
"We fought all the time - but I fought with all my men. It was my way of life; my way of loving, I suppose," said Gardner. For example, there was the day when Hughes bought him a Cadillac as an apology. "I thought it was good because we just had a huge fight for something, and I actually blackens the eye," she recalls. "I did not expect favors, at least until swelling has dropped."
Once she feared that she would kill him.
The two have been together for about a year when one of their worst fights occurred. In her autobiography, Gardner admitted that she did not know how it had started; They had just discussed, as usual, when Hughes fired and struck hard in the face, dislocate . However, instead of stopping the fight or melting into tears, she had coldly broke an onyx ashtray over her head in response. He started to bleed strongly. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Gardner described the scene as horrible. "There was blood on the walls, on the furniture-real blood in the bloody Marys," she wrote. She panicked and did what any star in the early 1940s did when things are in the form of a pear: she called the head of her studio, MGM Louis Mayer , to help.
"Louis Mayer had almost kittens," said Gardner, "he was convinced that I had struck the [explanive]. His boys took me out of there so [explanive] quickly, my feet did not touch the Orientals . " Not that he did this to protect Gardner from an accusation of murder. "I don't think he was screwed up on me, but he didn't want any scandal attached to his studio," she said.
Hughes recovered and his first words were not what you expected.
When Hughes woke up the next day, one of the first things he did was called Gardner and asked him to marry him. Again. She said no - again.
Gardner wrote in his autobiography that it was normal for the course. "[The refusals] have not prevented him from offering me all the time [explanive]," she said. They continued even when he saw other women. Whenever they were going to dinner, just both, he still offered marriage "just when the lamb chops arrived," she recalls.
Finally, Gardner stopped her offers - she left him for Shaw and became the fourth wife of the group's leader from a possible eight. But it was not long. Their marriage less than an year ended when he left him for his wife n ° 5, Kathleen Windsor , and she returned to Hughes ... at least until Sinatra arrives.
They kept coming back against each other.
Gardner ended up in Hughes' arms after the breakup of his second marriage. "A few months after our divorce, I collapsed when Artie married Kathleen," she said in her autobiography. Despite the emotional collapse, she said it was good for her in the long term. "It taught me a lesson, however.
The model continued when she and Sinatra broke in 1957. However, Gardner was no longer married after Sinatra, continuing to resist Hughes' proposals. Their relationship ended for good in 1960, when Hughes, whose mental health deteriorated, withdrew from public life. He died in 1976 at 70, while Gardner died in 1990 at the age of 67.
