Frank and Ava
2020-12-07 | 110 minutes
Plot Summary
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 ...
Cast
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Rico SimoniniFrank
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Emily Elicia LowAva
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Harry Dean StantonSheriff Lloyd
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Eric RobertsHarry Cohn
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Lukas HaasOfficer Josenhans
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Domenick LombardozziJack Keller
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Richard Portnow
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Dionne WarwickLady Singing the Blues
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Katherine HelmondBetty
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Eliza RobertsSheilah
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Tawny Amber YoungDoti
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Tony DenisonAdler
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Joanne BaronHedda
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Logan SparksGeorge Evans
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Michael WoodsJoe Nelis
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Robert MianoHank Sanicola
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Richard PortnowWalter Winchell
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Terry MooreSelf
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Shirley JonesSelf
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Joanna SanchezLouella
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