Frank took Ava off to Acapulco to do some nightclubbing with Hedy Lamarr and her new husband, Ted Stauffer, owner of a local nightclub. Hedy, however, pointedly snubbed Ava; and Frank, this time with a bodyguard, found another fight when a photographer snapped a picture of the happy couple. While the bodyguard threatened to put a bullet through the photographer unless he gave up the film, Frankie shouted to reporters: “This is a private affair of my own, and I don’t have to talk to anyone, you sonsabitches.” The whole affair did not seem so private to nightclub patrons who had just witnessed a balcony scene between Frank and Ava. Said one: “They thought nobody could see them when they went out there to smooch in the dark, but they were wearing white clothes and it was better than the floor show.”

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