Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were married from 1951 until 1957. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP via Getty Images) Oppedisano met the Hollywood sex symbol sometime in the mid-‘70s.

Ava Gardner saved Frank Sinatra’s career By the time Gardner and Sinatra wed in 1951, the “Come Fly With Me” singer’s career was on a downward spiral. MGM had terminated his contract and ...

Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra had a passionate and volatile relationship.While they loved each other deeply, they fought viciously and often. While they divorced in 1957, Gardner knew for a time ...

FRANK SINATRA AND AVA GARDNER HAD ‘A VERY INTENSE RELATIONSHIP’ THAT ‘WAS BOUND TO BURN OUT,’ PAL SAYS Leonardo DiCaprio, left, is being considered to play Frank Sinatra in a biopic.

Old Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, once purchased this stylish Midnight Blue 1957 Dual-Ghia Convertible for his wife, Ava Gardner. Wonderfully well preserved, this celebrity-owned classic car ...

Leonardo DiCarpio and Jennifer Lawrence, right, are reportedly being eyed to play Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, left, in a biopic about the famous crooner. (Getty Images file photos) Getty Images.

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner cut their wedding cake on Nov. 7, 1951. Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on Dec. 24, 1922, and raised in North Carolina and Virginia to a working-class family.

Here’s everything we know so far about Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Frank Sinatra biopic, reportedly starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence as Ava Gardner.

Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Heather Webb. Morrow, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-329711-1 ...

Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 1951: Ava Gardner grants one of her magnetic smiles to a young German customs official after arriving at Rhein-Main Air Base with her newly minted husband ...

A highway marker for Smithfield’s Ava Gardner was unveiled following a Frank Sinatra Jr. concert in Durham. Ava Gardner Museum director Deanna Brandenberger did the unveiling.