He seems so much older than her, even relatively toady compared with her youthful freshness, but there’s only a seven year difference (he’s 36, she’s 29). And while he’d been married once before, she’d been wed twice already (Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw).

That really is a sweet moment captured well. Obviously they knew that many pictures were being taken, but it still appears to be a genuine moment in time.

I thought she had a pirate hook on her right arm.

Ava is buried at Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, North Carolina. We'll be driving through there early next week on our way to points north. I may stop and pay my respects. I enjoyed her performance in Showboat.