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AVA GARDNER
This is an original/genuine/authentic hand signed cheque by Ava Gardner which has been stamped on the front by SECURITY FIRST NATIONAL BANK - LOS ANGELES, and is over 48 years old.
Dated: 9th July 1966
Check No. 1352
Payable to ?Doris Devoe?
Amount Paid $191.60
Born:24th Dec.1922
Died:25th Jan 1990
One of the most beautiful woman ever to step in front of a camera, the star of 'Showboat' and 'Mogambo' endured tempestuous off-screen unions with Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra.
Ava Lavinia Gardner caught MGM's eye as a beautiful teenager, and was playing bit parts in films by the
Her marriages were even bigger news than her films. After brief marriages to Mickey Rooney, and bandleader Artie Shaw, her marriage to Frank Sinatra was the most famous and the longest-lasting, from 1948 to 1957.
After two strokes in 1986, which left her partially paralysed and bedridden, Frank Sinatra paid her medical costs. Her last words were 'I'm tired' to her housekeeper Carmen.
She died of pneumonia at the age of 67, shortly after completing her autobiography. After her death, Sinatra's daughter found him slumped in his room, face wet with tears, unable to raise his voice above a whisper. She had been the love of his life.
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