Whereas Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley put together to embody Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Rooney Mara fights to maintain her Audrey Hepburn-centric mission alive, Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio look poised to play two different silver display icons of their very personal sweeping biopic: crooner Frank Sinatra and his second spouse, Hollywood bombshell Ava Gardner, in a brand new drama from Martin Scorsese, no much less.
Lawrence and DiCaprio—who beforehand co-starred in a really completely different awards contender, taking part in cranky astronomers in Adam McKay’s 2021 satire Don’t Look Up—are hooked up to the brand new movie, per Selection, although its future remains to be unsure. (Sinatra’s daughter, Tina, who controls her father’s property, has reportedly but to offer her blessing to the forthcoming launch.)
Nevertheless, ought to or not it’s greenlit, there’s no scarcity of fabric that’s ripe for retelling: Gardner, identified for being impossibly glamorous, free-spirited, brash, and outspoken, had beforehand been married to Mickey Rooney after which Artie Shaw earlier than tying the knot along with her third husband. She and Sinatra famously had a turbulent relationship, which started as dramatically because it ended: within the autumn of 1949, the musician, whereas nonetheless married to his first spouse, Nancy Barbato, discovered himself very drunk and partying with Gardner in Palm Springs. On the finish of the evening, they left collectively and drove to the sleepy city of Indio, California, the place, after kissing passionately, Sinatra apparently introduced out two weapons and started taking pictures out streetlights. Gardner joined in and shot out the window of a ironmongery store. They have been ultimately introduced right into a police station, however the officers have been paid off by their film studio.
It solely obtained extra unhinged from that time onwards: there was a public outcry when Sinatra left Barbato for Gardner, they married in 1951, and their frequent public fights have been as legendary as their swooning reconciliations. They separated in 1953, and their divorce was finalized by 1957.
