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Frank and Ava

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 ...

2020 |1h 50m |  Drama

Cast

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Rico Simonini

Frank

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Emily Elicia Low

Ava

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Harry Dean Stanton

Sheriff Lloyd

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Eric Roberts

Harry Cohn

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Lukas Haas

Officer Josenhans

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Domenick Lombardozzi

Jack Keller

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Richard Portnow

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Dionne Warwick

Lady Singing the Blues

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Katherine Helmond

Betty

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Eliza Roberts

Sheilah

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Tawny Amber Young

Doti

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Tony Denison

Adler

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Joanne Baron

Hedda

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Logan Sparks

George Evans

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Michael Woods

Joe Nelis

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Robert Miano

Hank Sanicola

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Richard Portnow

Walter Winchell

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Terry Moore

Self

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Shirley Jones

Self

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Joanna Sanchez

Louella

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John Capodice

Lee

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Robert Catrini

Billy Wilkerson

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Hettie Lynne Hurtes

Dorothy Fuldheim

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Lora McHugh

Mercedes McCambridge

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Antonella Salvucci

Claudia

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Paola Saulino

Alida Valli

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Jacqui Holland

Lana Turner

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Chris Moss

Howard Rushmore

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Jerry Hauck

Robert Harrison

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Julia Silverman

Dolly Sinatra

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Michael Raynor

Meyer Lansky

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Danny Pardo

Mario Cabré

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Emrhys Cooper

Montgomery Clift

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Released

Language

English

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