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Kim Novak and Cary Grant at Cannes Film Festival (1959)

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Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, photographed by Martha Holmes for LIFE (1946)

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Jeanne Crain, photographed by Peter Stackpole (c. 1948)

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Joan Crawford signs autographs and reads fan mail, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull (1933)

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Ava Gardner at court for her divorce from Mickey Rooney (1943)

Mickey and Ava's short marriage was a very tumultuous one. The pair were married when Mickey was 21 and Ava was 19, then divorced just one year later. From the start, things had been very rocky. After spending time in the hospital after an appendectomy just after their honeymoon, Ava returned to find evidence that another woman had been in her bed. The couple fought continuously throughout their year long marriage. According to Ava, their conflict came to a head one night at a nightclub after Mickey had been drinking heavily. He started describing women he had slept with in great detail in front of Ava, which resulted in her leaving and kicking her husband out of their apartment. She said, "I knew that dumping Mickey was a risk. Careerwise, it could have been the end of me. If I stopped being Mrs. Rooney, they wouldn't think twice about letting me go. But I really had no choice. Mickey was never going to change his ways." Ava said she cited "incompatibility" for a quick and clean divorce.

Sources

Vanity Fair

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner

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Cary Grant's passport photos throughout the years (1940s-1967)

Happy (belated) heavenly birthday to Cary! He was born 119 years ago in Bristol, England on January 18, 1904! (1904-1986)

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Audrey Hepburn in publicity photos for Secret People (1952)

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Loretta Young in promotional photos for Suez (1938)

Happy heavenly birthday to Loretta! Today would be her 108th birthday!

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Jazz singer Ella FItzgerald (1954)

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart at rehearsals for Lux Radio Theater's adaptation of To Have and Have Not (1946)

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Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, and Deanna Durbin (1936)

Happy heavenly birthday to Deanna! She was born 101 years ago today in Winnipeg, Canada! (1921-2013)

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Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones on the set of Since You Went Away (1944)

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Gene Kelly and Natalie Wood in publicity photos for Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

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Debbie Reynolds (c. 1950s)

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Barbara Bates (c. 1950s)

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Sandra Storme (c. 1937)

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Frank Sinatra with his daughter, Nancy, at the premiere of Not as a Stranger (1955)