Ava Gardner
Subtitle: the secret conversations
By: Peter Evans and Ava Gardner
Contributors: Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990, author
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781611739053
Subjects: Large type books; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s and 1950s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. Born poor in rural North Carolina, Gardner was given a Hollywood tryout thanks to a stunning photo of her displayed in a shop window. Faithfully recording Ava's reminiscences in this book, Peter Evans describes their late-night conversations when Ava, having had something to drink and unable to sleep, was at her most candid. So candid, in fact, that when she read her own words, she backed out and halted the book. Only now, years after her death, could this frank and revealing memoir be published.