Conversations with Ava Gardner

Conversations with Ava Gardner

These conversations with the femme fatale of The Killers, Mogambo, The Barefoot Contessa, Show Boat, and Night of the Iguana, and one of the worldâ€™s great beauties, are startlingly candid. Two years before she died, Ava Gardner asked Lawrence Grobel to work with her on her memoir. The reclusive actress opened up about her three volatile marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra (â€œI loved them all; I just couldnâ€™t live with them. Iâ€™m not going to try and whitewash them anymoreâ€). She tells about Howard Hughesâ€™ 15-year pursuit of her (â€œAs soon as I got divorced from Mickey, Howard entered my life and I couldnâ€™t get rid of him, no matter who I was with or who I marriedâ€). She reveals how George C. Scott was so crazily in love with her that he beat her up on three occasions and once stuck a broken bottle in her face (â€œI was frightened for my lifeâ€). She talks about her tomboy childhood as a tobacco farmerâ€™s daughter in North Carolina. She goes into detail about how she was â€œdiscoveredâ€ and became a contract player at MGM (â€œwhite slaveryâ€); her friendships with Hemingway, Dominguin, and Brando; and of working with her favorite director, John Huston. She admits to her struggles with alcohol (â€œI donâ€™t give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too muchâ€). And she speaks intimately about the debilitating stroke she suffered toward the end of her life (â€œI felt this dark cloud that wouldnâ€™t go away. I just wanted to lie in bed and drink brandyâ€).
Country USA
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Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
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EANs 9781500635428
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781500635428
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Conversations with Ava Gardner

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