Mickey: “Isn’t it swell that we’re getting married?”
Ava: “It’s lovely. Wait, is that Frank Sinatra over there? Hold my purse, I’ll be right back.”
Note: This is part of an on-going experiment at Bonnywood. Details found here.
P.S. Ava eventually divorced Mickey and married Frank, although she also managed to marry and divorce bandleader Artie Shaw in the interim, thus explaining the twisted backstory behind this otherwise confusing story seed…
Categories: Past Imperfect
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She didn’t divorce him. He wandered into a patch of low shrubs and no one could find him. I gotta say, seeing his horsey face playing Puck in the movie was startling and life-changing.
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Some decisions are simply unforgivable, especially when it comes to Hollywood casting choices…
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Little known fact – Mickey married frequently because was actually a cross dresser who raided his wives’ closets every other Saturday. The women put up with it because he gave such fabulous fashion advice.
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Hahaha. That’s funny.
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I just KNEW something was off with him, and now I understand everything. Thank you for this wisdom and insight… 😉
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Was he standing on a box? 🙂
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I would assume so, just as I would assume that he was never allowed to enjoy the height-requirement rides at amusement parks…
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Ava: The photoshoot is over. I want to stand up now.
Frank: Did someone slip you a Mickey ?
Ave: Now that you mention it, the Eat Me & Drink Me props from the Alice in Wonderland movie did leave me buzzing .
Mickey: You should have been at the wrap up party for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cagney was such an ass.
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Perfect. Don’t change a thing. 😉
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Look at those buttons!
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Somewhere, a car is missing it’s hubcaps…
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Ava and Love Leaves Andy Hardy.
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Oh, you get bonus points for that, mmm hmm…
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Think of all the marriages that would have been eliminated if Mickey and Ava made theirs work.
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Don’t forget Liz Taylor. She changed husbands more often than she changed her underwear…
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I don’t know who’s Mickey and who’s Ava, but they do sound quite busy with their separate affairs. I want to google them but it is a Saturday for lazy people…
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Sometimes it’s better to not Google and just move on to the next story… 😉
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Hahaha.
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Four, if anyone is keeping count.
Brian educates me. I never knew Mickey Rooney (why do I keep trying to write ANDY? I know the difference, really I do) and Ava Gardner hooked up. It boggled my mind for about 5.2 seconds and then I moved on:
The unlikely pair cooed at each other. Because it was the honeymoon phase of their relationship. It would turn sour in short order, partially because the bride was a buxom dark eyed temptress who melted men’s resolve with a single melancholy breath. The groom on the other hand was a short (sorry, Mickey, but you were) fresh faced farm boy looking man, who never got much respect (less than Rodney Dangerfield, it’s rumored), but who always had armfuls of honeys. Like Ava. They came for the vague smell of greenbacks, that Mickey exuded, rather like the pheromones that swirled above Ava’s head. Ava smiled widely for the camera. She knew that the farm boy who really wasn’t, was good for something anyway. His back was sturdy enough to support her as she climbed over him on the way to the top.
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There was definitely some kind of mystique about Mickey, as he managed to have eight wives over the course of his many years. (And he also managed to appear in over three HUNDRED movies. That man was BUSY. I’m worn out just typing this.) As for her part, Ava was only married a comparatively modest three times. And she was born in Grabtown, North Carolina, which perhaps explains why her marriages were more calculated and profitable… 😉
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