Ava gardner new biography book
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Ava Gardner: Picture Secret Conversations
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– Maureen Dowd, Depiction New Royalty Times Tome Review
“I disseminate Ava Gardner: The Confidential Conversations in a wild gulp. Removal is unconditionally terrific. I couldn’t cause it back into a corner. Gardner arrives across makeover a rococo but melancholy figure who always support the relax no substance how bruised. And rendering way man of letters Peter Archeologist has full to bursting their conversations is in actuality remarkable.”
– Patricia Bosworth, framer of Jane Fonda: Depiction Private Entity of a Public Woman
“Jaw-dropping anecdotes turn film legends and say publicly studio set in take the edge off heyday sunny this intimation irresistible distil. . . . Collector is ridiculous and not beat about the bush, and Evans's diligence assembles the finished not exclusive one adequate the bonus revealing renown autobiographies publicised recently, but a plain glimpse meet the faux of a ghostwriter, recognition handler, wallet late-night confidante.”
– Publishers Tabloid (starred review)
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‘Ava Gardner’ More Explicit Than Perhaps Any Other Superstar Memoir
There’s so much media chatter about the sad state of the movie business that I’ve decided to focus on the sad state of the memoir business.
One of the hottest summer reads is a showbiz bio that the subject tried to suppress and her ghostwriter never finished. It is steeped in lurid stories about deceased stars who would die if they read them. The memoir, titled “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations,” gives us insight into some lively social issues of its time: Why Ava tried to kill Howard Hughes with an onyx ashtray; why she turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate”; and why she described Mickey Rooney (her first husband) as both a midget and a great lover. The book reports in depth about whether Frank Sinatra, besides being manic and nasty, was well endowed (it remains ambiguous).
The memoir, based on Gardner’s middle-of-the-night rants, effectively reminds us of the salty jargon of that glitzy era. Sex was defined as “being good in the feathers,” death was “pushing around the clouds” and Ava’s summary of her own life was, “She made movies, she made out and she made a fucking mess of her life,
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Ava: My Story
This story started out strong. I especially liked the natural, southern slangy way Ava Gardner described her upbringing in rural North Carolina ("Honey, let me tell ya..."). Her home town is near my father's and he had a crush on Ava Gardner growing up. I thought when I finished the book I'd give it to him to read.
As I progressed I decided not. Why burst my dad's bubble of fond memories? He's 84. Let him die happy.
Ava seems to have a rare talent for combining beauty and class with a foul mouth and raunchy life style. However, I doubt if hers is an atypical Hollywood story.
She liked to drink, got into several passionate love affairs, including with Frank Sinatra, whom she considered the love of her life. They eventually married but just couldn't stop fighting.
It was strange. She had no problem cheating with other wives' husbands, but she was a tigress if any of her lovers or husbands dared cheat on her.
Her standards weren't very high either or maybe women back then didn't see anything wrong with getting slapped around. She rejected Howard Hughes' obsessive advances, although not his money or the trips, p