Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Rico Simonini | ... | Frank | |
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Emily Elicia Low | ... | Ava |
Harry Dean Stanton | ... | Sheriff Lloyd | |
Eric Roberts | ... | Harry Cohn | |
Lukas Haas | ... | Officer Josenhans | |
Jonathan Silverman | ... | Mannie Sacks | |
Domenick Lombardozzi | ... | Jack Keller | |
Katherine Helmond | ... | Betty | |
Dionne Warwick | ... | Lady Singing the Blues | |
Terry Moore | ... | Self | |
Shirley Jones | ... | Self | |
Eliza Roberts | ... | Sheilah | |
Ed O'Ross | ... | Sgt. Haney | |
Tony Denison | ... | Adler | |
Robert Costanzo | ... | Willie |
The steel line of sex and tension is palpable throughout this harrowing and heart-stirring Hollywood romance between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. It's 1949 and Sinatra, the former king of swoon who once enchanted millions of "bobby soxers", is at the downturn of his career as the once golden "Voice" is now compromised by a hemorrhage to his vocal cords while his reputation is lambasted by the press who parade his alleged Mafia connections, liberal sympathies, and extramarital affairs. In the midst of his despair, he falls hard and fast for Gardner, MGM's sultry starlet with whom he shares proclivities for passion, whiskey, obstinacy, and sexual infidelities. Equal to his desire to maintain the interest of the mercurial Gardner, is his almost sacred infatuation aimed at attaining the role of Private Angelo Maggio in Columbia Picture's From Here to Eternity, the sole ray of hope in salvaging his career. An acknowledged long shot due to his questionable acting chops and heretofore box ... Written by Rico Simonini
Old Blue Eyes didn't have blue eyes. Ava, a physically beautiful woman in real life wasn't portrayed by a beautiful actress in this film. Very boring. Didn't finish it.