Ava Gardner & Frank Sinatra (1951 - 1957)

They stayed very, very close. Every time I’d be with her, he would call at least once. And she would go up into her bedroom, close the door, and talk for half an hour. The only time I saw them together, she was staying at his suite at the Waldorf Towers. He was looking up an address in the phone book and he couldn’t read it without his glasses, which he didn’t have. And Ava, who had these funny little Ben Franklin-type half-glasses, said, ‘Here, try mine.’ And he put them on and he said, ‘Hey, they work for me! That’s another reason why you and I should get back together.’ Which I thought was kind of cute. -Stephen Birmingham