"Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953). That role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers. The Gardner-Sinatra marriage was tumultuous. Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that, ""With him [Frank], it's impossible... It's like being with a woman. He's so gentle. It's as though he thinks I'll break, as though I'm a piece of Dresden china, and he's gonna hurt me."" During their marriage, Gardner became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies. ""MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies"", according to her autobiography, which"
"rural Southern standards of the times"". In a 1996 radio interview, he repeated the claim that the two had never been married, and also claimed that Tina's name had originally been Martha Nell (not Anna Mae) Bullock. Turner married former Ikette Margaret Ann Thomas in 1981 with whom he already had a daughter. In 1995, he married St. Louis native singer Jeanette Bazzell. They met in 1987; she started as an Ikette before becoming the lead singer. They divorced in 2000, but remained friends. On October 8, 2006, Turner married Audrey Madison in Las Vegas after six years of dating."
"she was pregnant, Turner remarried Crane in March 1943. Their daughter, Cheryl Crane, was born on July 25, 1943. The marriage did not last and the couple was divorced a second time in August 1944. In addition to Lana Turner, Crane was involved with many famous women. Crane was seen at hotspots with Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth in the 1940s and Mamie van Doren in the 1950s. Crane was engaged to starlet Lila Leeds when, in 1948, she was arrested along with actor Robert Mitchum for smoking marijuana. Crane quickly ended the relationship and moved abroad to avoid the"
"that read ""Welcome home, Lana,"" followed by a large celebration during which the mayor declared a holiday in her honor. Upon completing the tour, Turner had sold $5.25 million (equivalent to $ million in ) in war bonds. Throughout the war, Turner continued to make regular appearances at U.S. troop events and area bases, though she confided to friends that she found visiting the hospital wards of injured soldiers emotionally difficult. In July 1942, Turner met her second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur Joseph Stephen ""Steve"" Crane, at a dinner party in Los Angeles. The two eloped to Las Vegas a week after"
"Jouvin. In the 1990s, she started a singing career, releasing the title ""Crazy About You"" in 1998. She subsequently appeared as a guest star and host on various French TV shows. She came to media attention in 2002 by appearing under the name ""Lesly"", and released several records under the alias ""Lesly Mess"". She lives in Beverly Hills, California, United States. She had a relationship with Coolio lasting two years. In 2007, she married musician Ronnie Turner, musician, the son of Ike and Tina Turner. She started to use the name Afida Turner. On June 12, 2017, she officially announced"
"in order to marry Ava Gardner, only to then see Gardner leave Sinatra. Not knowing exactly where to send her letter to, Vimmerstedt simply addressed it to 'Johnny Mercer...Songwriter...New York, NY'. The post office forwarded it to ASCAP, who in turn passed it along to Mercer, who was a member of the organization. Mercer wrote the song and agreed to share 1/3 of the royalties and credits with Vimmerstedt. The song was published in 1959. Tony Bennett's recording, from his 1963 album of that name, remains the definitive version of the song, (#14 pop, #5 easy listening), and has appeared"
"9, 1954, to Thomas Turner and Bettye Jean Gardner. He was both the second child and the only boy born to Bettye Jean. His older half-sister, Ophelia, is from a previous union. His younger sisters, Sharon and Kimberly, are children from his mother's marriage to Freddie Triplett. Gardner did not have many positive male role models as a child, as his father was living in Louisiana during his birth, and his stepfather was physically abusive to both his mother and his sisters. Triplett's fits of rage made both Gardner and his sisters constantly afraid. In one incident, Bettye Jean was"
"Lorraine Lewis during a show in Oklahoma. In the mid-2000s, when the band Vixen was initially disbanded, Gardner attended college at the University of Bridgeport and became a dental hygienist in 2005. she maintains an active license, and works as a hygienist when not working on musical projects with Vixen. Gardner is married to guitarist Justin James since 2016. She shares the same birthdate with fellow current Vixen and former JSRG bandmate Roxy Petrucci. Studio albums Compilation albums Live albums Janet Gardner Janet Patricia Gardner (born March 17, 1962) is an American rock singer. She is best known as the"
"Foster for the soundtrack for ""The Bodyguard"", and she shared Special Recognition Awards in 1997 and 2004 with several others for work related to the Olympics, including lyrics for the official 1996 Olympic theme song, ""The Power of the Dream"", sung by Celine Dion. Linda Thompson (actress) Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950) is an American songwriter/lyricist, former actress and beauty pageant winner. She was married to Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner (now known as Caitlyn Jenner), and David Foster, musician, record producer, composer, songwriter and arranger. Thompson was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Margie"
"Long Branch, New Jersey in the late 1930s, where he spent most of the summer working as a lifeguard. He agreed to marry her after an incident at ""The Rustic Cabin"" which led to his arrest. Sinatra had numerous extramarital affairs, and gossip magazines published details of affairs with women including Marilyn Maxwell, Lana Turner, and Joi Lansing. Sinatra was married to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957. It was a turbulent marriage with many well-publicized fights and altercations. The couple formally announced their separation on October 29, 1953, through MGM. Gardner filed for divorce in June 1954,"
"to Craig Raymond Turner. In July 2018, Craig was found dead at age 59 in an apparent suicide; according to the initial report of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office, the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Turner's second biological son, Ronald Renelle ""Ronnie"" Turner (her only biological child with Ike Turner), was born on October 27, 1960. From 2007 to 2017, Ronnie Turner was married to the French-American singer Afida Turner. Ronnie Turner is a musician and has performed with both of his parents as an adult. He used to play bass in the band, The"
"of a heart attack in 1955 at age 70. Cedella and Bob then moved to Trenchtown, a slum neighborhood in Kingston. This was the only place Booker could afford to live at the time, being a young woman moving from the country to the big city on her own. While living in Trenchtown, Booker gave birth to a daughter, Claudette Pearl, with Taddeus Livingston, the father of Bunny Livingston – aka Bunny Wailer – who formed the original Wailers trio with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in 1963. Cedella then married Edward Booker, an American civil servant, and resided first"
"Afida Turner Afida Turner (born Hafidda Messaï on December 22, 1976) is a French-American singer, actress, and media personality who once used the stage name Lesly Mess. In 2007, she married musician Ronnie Turner, the son of Ike and Tina Turner. Afida Turner was born in Auchel, France. Her father was from Algeria and her mother from La Réunion. She made appearances in three films, ""Shut Up And Shoot"", ""The Sweep"" and ""Single Black Female"". In 2013, she played a role in the film ""Visions Interdites"". In 2018, she played the main role in the drama ""Lumière Noir"" by Enguerrand"
"Tina Turner and Wynonna Judd. She then began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to themselves as the ""Tuesday Music Club."" Group members Gilbert, David Baerwald, and David Ricketts (both formerly of David & David), Bill Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, and Dan Schwartz share songwriting credits with Crow on her debut album, ""Tuesday Night Music Club"". The group existed as a casual songwriting collective prior to its association with Crow but rapidly developed into a vehicle for her debut album after her arrival. Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album"
"Betty Kern, the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern (1942–43); actress Ava Gardner (1945–46); ""Forever Amber"" author Kathleen Winsor (1946–48; annulled); actress Doris Dowling (1952–56), and actress Evelyn Keyes (1957–85). He had two sons, Steven Kern (by Betty Kern), and another son, Jonathan Shaw (by Doris Dowling). Both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner later described Shaw as being extremely emotionally abusive. His controlling nature and incessant verbal abuse drove Turner to have a nervous breakdown, soon after which she divorced him. In 1940, Shaw briefly dated actress Judy Garland and, according to Tom Nolan's biography, had an affair with Lena Horne."
"his songs ""Tonight"" (2010) and ""Euphoria"" (2011). They married on May 1, 2011 and divorced in April 2012. Band married girlfriend, Shayna Weber, in October 2013 which was confirmed on the Twitter account of each. Via Twitter, Alex confirmed in early 2016 that he and Shayna are expecting their first child in the summer. Their son, Max Bowie Band, was born on September 3, 2016. Band was reportedly abducted on August 18, 2013 by two men that robbed, beat him severely, and dumped him on train tracks in Lapeer, Michigan. He was taken to an emergency room at a nearby"
"""Knots Landing"" (both 1985). Soon after Gardner arrived in Los Angeles, she met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney; they married on January 10, 1942. The ceremony was held in the remote town of Ballard, California, because MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer was worried that fans would desert Rooney's Andy Hardy movie series if it became known that their star was married. Largely due to Rooney's serial adultery, Gardner divorced him in 1943, but agreed not to reveal the cause so as not to affect his career. Gardner's second marriage was brief as well, to jazz musician and bandleader"
"pianist and singer Bonnie Mae Wilson, who was part of the Kings of Rhythm, but after two years she left him for another man. After Bonnie, he became involved with Annie Mae Wilson, another pianist in the band, whom he married in the mid-1950s. His next marriage was to Lorraine Taylor, who had two sons with him. The facts surrounding his marriage to Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) have been very publicly debated. Tina left the relationship after another violent argument on the way to a concert in 1976. Their divorce was finalized in 1978. In Tina's autobiography, she accused"
"Control"". Lyon left after the ""No Control"" album, but did play on the song ""Backtrack"" from the ""Where's the Party?"" album, and later made a guest appearance on the ""Nothing to Lose"" album, playing lead guitar on the hit ""Walk on Water"". He was the lead guitarist for the Tina Turner ""Private Dancer"" tour in 1985. Lyon played guitar on the Greg Kihn Band albums, ""Unkihntrollable"" and ""Kihn Of Hearts"". He is married to Elaine Lyon; they have two daughters, Monica and Jessica. He attended Marina High School (San Leandro, California), from 1969-1973. Lyon is a certified pilot and a"
"survived by wife Annette, son Christian, daughter-in-law Giovanna, and grandchild Joshua. Alan Gordon (songwriter) Alan Lee Gordon (April 22, 1944 – November 22, 2008) was an American songwriter best known for songs recorded by The Turtles, Petula Clark, and Barbra Streisand. Many of his songs were co-written with Gary Bonner, including The Turtles' ""Happy Together"" and Three Dog Night's ""Celebrate"". He worked with various popular musicians, including Blues Magoos, Alice Cooper, The Archies, The O'Jays, Lynn Anderson, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa, Helen Reddy, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Tammy Wynette, The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin, and Freddy Fender. Gordon"
"on piano, releasing the single ""The Snuggle"" / ""Bourbon Street Jump"" under his own name on Sun in 1954, both sides being instrumentals. From 1955, he returned to working in Turner's band on a full-time basis, and moved to St. Louis, Missouri with them. In 1957 he had a relationship with the band's new 17-year-old backing singer Anna Mae Bullock, then known as Little Ann and later as Tina Turner. This led to the birth the following year of her first child, Raymond Craig, who later used the name Craig Raymond Turner. Before the birth, Hill broke his ankle and"
"to sing with Ike and Tina Turner as one of the Ikettes. She eventually moved to Los Angeles, where she met the singer Delaney Bramlett in 1967 at a bowling alley gig for his band, the Shindogs. They were married within the week. Their daughter, Bekka Bramlett, who is now also a singer, was born the following year. The duo signed with Stax Records and became known as Delaney & Bonnie. They soon toured Europe with the British rock guitarist Eric Clapton. With frequent drop-in performances by other noted musicians like Duane Allman, George Harrison, and Dave Mason, the group"
"and daughters Mia (with Margaret Ann Thomas), Linda Trippeter and Twanna Melby. Tina's son Craig (fathered by saxophonist Raymond Hill) was adopted by Turner and therefore carried the Turner name. Mia Turner was conceived and born during Ike's marriage to Tina in the late 1960s. Ronnie was married to Afida Turner. Turner was married at least eight times. He sometimes claimed to have been married 13 times. Turner's first marriage was to an Edna Dean Taylor from Ruleville, Mississippi, while in his teens. He then married Rosa Lee Sane. The marriage took place in West Memphis. In 1953, he married"
"Staunton, Turner lived in Middletown and Newtown (now Stephen's' City), near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Catherine (""Kate"") Montrose Aby on July 1, 1845, in Frederick County. The ceremony was performed by John Allemong. Turner's house in Newtown was destroyed in a fire on December 2, 1856. Turner also spent time at Greenville, where he played with banjoist Joel Sweeney in 1847, and organized a band in Middlebrook. In Staunton, Virginia, in 1855, David W. Drake sought help in founding a band. He enlisted the help of Turner, his former music teacher in Newtown, persuading him to move"
"when it became more widely known, Gardner was obliged to leave the team, though he was later re-hired. Pendleton and Gardner married in September 2013. For her 30th birthday, Pendleton had a line from The Smashing Pumpkins' song ""Today"" tattooed onto her right arm. As of 2012, she lived in Wilmslow, Cheshire. but subsequently moved to the Chilterns. In July 2018 Pendleton announced the break up of her marriage. Victoria Pendleton Victoria Louise Pendleton, (born 24 September 1980) is a British jockey and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines. Pendleton represented Great Britain"
"her breakup with Ronnie Turner after ten years of marriage. Afida Turner Afida Turner (born Hafidda Messaï on December 22, 1976) is a French-American singer, actress, and media personality who once used the stage name Lesly Mess. In 2007, she married musician Ronnie Turner, the son of Ike and Tina Turner. Afida Turner was born in Auchel, France. Her father was from Algeria and her mother from La Réunion. She made appearances in three films, ""Shut Up And Shoot"", ""The Sweep"" and ""Single Black Female"". In 2013, she played a role in the film ""Visions Interdites"". In 2018, she played"
"split up. Turner performed at the camp again in 2013, covering “Freddy Krueger” with Guy watching in the audience. Lenman and Turner performed “Good Luck” by Reuben at Xtra Mile’s Christmas 2013 Party, with the recording going out on XFM. Lenman is teetotal. Lenman is married to his wife Katie, who is a burlesque dancer. Katie Lenman performed vocals on Lenman’s solo album, as well as accompanying him on tour to sing her parts, she has also appeared in Lenman’s music videos for “All These Things” and “It’s Hard to be a Gentleman”. Current lineup (2017–present) The Heavy/Mellow Band (2013-2016)"
"Bo Diddley and Eric Clapton. He toured with several bands including Pacific Gas & Electric. In 1973, while recording an album with Jackie Lomax and George Harrison in New Orleans, Gardner met his future wife, Paula, a successful entrepreneur in the clothing business. They moved to Los Angeles in 1974, married and had three daughters, Eva, Ashlee and Camille. In 1974 Gardner joined Badger as bassist, a group featuring Jackie Lomax on vocals with drummer Roy Dyke and keyboardist Tony Kaye (formerly of Yes) and guitarist Paul Pilnick (formerly of Stealers Wheel). The band released one record ""White Lady"" on"
". In 2004 Anna gave birth to their first daughter Melinda. The couple had their second daughter Mirjam 2007. In 2016, in an interview with ""The Quietus"", Åkerfeldt revealed he had gone through a divorce. Åkerfeldt is known to be friends with Steven Wilson, the frontman of one of his favorite bands, Porcupine Tree; Mike Portnoy, former drummer of Dream Theater (he is featured in their music video for Wither); and Jonas Renkse of Katatonia. He is also presumed to be the basis for the character Toki Wartooth from the popular cartoon ""Metalocalypse"", as divulged in an interview with Ultimate"
"tried to make their marriage work when Power returned from military service, but they were unable to do so. Following his separation from Annabella, Power entered into a love affair with Lana Turner that lasted for a couple of years. In her 1982 autobiography, Turner claimed that she became pregnant with Power's child in 1948, but chose to have an abortion. On September 1, 1947, Power set out on a goodwill trip around the world, piloting his own plane, ""The Geek."" He flew with Bob Buck, an experienced pilot and war veteran. Buck stated in his autobiography that Power had"
"was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. Travers was married four times. Her first brief union, to John Filler, produced her elder daughter, Erika, in 1960. In 1963, she married Barry Feinstein, a prominent freelance photographer of musicians and celebrities. Her younger daughter, Alicia, was born in 1966, and the couple divorced the following year. In the 1970s, she was married to Gerald Taylor, publisher of ""National Lampoon"". Following her marriage to Taylor, Travers had a relationship for several years with former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste while raising her daughters in New York. In 1991, she"
"alongside Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. In 1990, shortly before his death, Duff made his final acting appearances in the TV series ""Midnight Caller"" and ""The Golden Girls"", and the film ""Too Much Sun"". Duff had a tempestuous relationship with actress Ava Gardner in the late 1940s. In October 1951, he married Ida Lupino. After he was listed in Red Channels as a communist subversive in 1950, he lost his radio work and might have forfeited his entire career had it not been for his marriage. Duff and Lupino had a daughter, Bridget Duff (born April 23, 1952). The couple"
"In 2000, she married Jonathan Boris Berg in an Episcopalian ceremony on Martha's Vineyard. In 2012, Gardner and her fellow producers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for ""The Tree of Life"". In 2014, she won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie ""12 Years a Slave"" alongside co-producers Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas. In 2015, she was nominated once again for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing ""Selma"" alongside fellow producers Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christian Colson. In 2017, she won her second Academy Award for Best"