Originally Posted by
leevancleef
Im really fascinating by how obsessed Frank was for Ava Gardner.
i mean, he could have any woman he wanted, he slept with beauties like Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson,Lana Turner.... but it was only Ava for him...for the rest of his life.
ive found this information about how Frank felt when Ava left him for good:
"He was stricken, desperate, sleepless, inconsolable...In Van Heusen's apartment he would sit up all night drinking until he passed out from exhaustion. He couldnt rid himself of her for a minute. She went round and round in his head til he thoght it would explode.He would sit, staring at her photograph, then in an angry outburst tear it to shreds, then put the pieces together again...... One night he found himself alone in the apartment in NYC , Van Heusen was out,. Lonely, full of booze and pills , strolling about the halls in his pajamas he wandered into the kitchen and took a knife and he run the blade across each of his thin writst. Van Heusen came home and found him dazed and his arms and pj's all red.
Sinatra just said: Jimmy, i cant stop the bleeding"