Conversations With Ava Gardner

Author : Ava Gardner,Peter Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471101168

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Ava Gardner by Ava Gardner,Peter Evans Pdf

Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.

Author : Peter Evans,Ava Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451627701

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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans,Ava Gardner Pdf

A self-portrait of the late film legend's golden-era Hollywood life traces her impoverished childhood in North Carolina through the heights of her career, sharing details of her relationships with such figures as Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott.

Author : Ava Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 0708986315

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Ava by Ava Gardner Pdf

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451627695

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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans Pdf

A self-portrait of the late film legend's golden-era Hollywood life traces her impoverished childhood in North Carolina through the heights of her career, sharing details of her relationships with such figures as Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott.

Author : Lawrence Grobel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 1500635421

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Conversations with Ava Gardner by Lawrence Grobel Pdf

These conversations with the femme fatale of The Killers, Mogambo, The Barefoot Contessa, Show Boat, and Night of the Iguana, and one of the world'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 ("I loved them all; I just couldn't live with them. I'm not going to try and whitewash them anymore"). She tells about Howard Hughes' 15-year pursuit of her ("As soon as I got divorced from Mickey, Howard entered my life and I couldn't get rid of him, no matter who I was with or who I married"). 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 ("I was frightened for my life"). She talks about her tomboy childhood as a tobacco farmer's daughter in North Carolina. She goes into detail about how she was "discovered" and became a contract player at MGM ("white slavery"); her friendships with Hemingway, Dominguin, and Brando; and of working with her favorite director, John Huston. She admits to her struggles with alcohol ("I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much"). And she speaks intimately about the debilitating stroke she suffered toward the end of her life ("I felt this dark cloud that wouldn't go away. I just wanted to lie in bed and drink brandy").

Author : Whitney Stine
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501196499

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"I'd Love to Kiss You..." by Whitney Stine Pdf

Whitney Stine, author of the bestseller on Davis’s film career, Mother Goddam, has created the ultimate Bette Davis book. Told in her own words, I’d Love to Kiss You… is a priceless collection of conversations and photographs gathered over the course of the actress and author’s nearly twenty-year friendship. After meeting in 1972, Whitney Stine and Bette Davis developed a friendship that flourished into Whitney recording the uninhibited conversations the duo had over the years about Bette’s co-stars, lovers, husbands, and career. As the female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first woman to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, and more than 100 acting credits over her 50-year career, Bette shares an abundance of wisdom and humor in this tell-all about her life as a critically acclaimed actress. Illustrated with exclusive photographs and told in with utter candor about her tempestuous affairs—with Howard Hughes, William Wyler, and George Brent among them—as well as opinions on friends, family, and colleagues, such as Audrey Hepburn and Helen Hayes, this retelling of Bette’s fabulous stories and tantalizing experiences is a passionate account, right from her heart, of her unforgettable career and life.

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429908740

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Ava Gardner by Lee Server Pdf

"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent."—Liz Smith She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard Hughes begged her to marry him—but she knocked out his front teeth instead. She was one of the great icons in Hollywood history—star of The Killers, The Barefoot Contessa, and The Night of the Iguana—and one of the few whose actual life was grander and more colorful than any movie. Her jaw-dropping beauty, charismatic presence, and fabulous, scandalous adventures fueled the legend of Ava Gardner—Hollywood's most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star. In this acclaimed first full biography of Gardner, Lee Server recreates—with great style and vivid detail—the actress's life, from her beginnings as a barefoot North Carolina farm girl to her heady days as a Hollywood goddess. He paints the full spectacle of her tumultuous private life—including her string of failed marriages to Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Artie Shaw—and Gardner's lifelong search for adventure and love. Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" is both an exceptional work of biography and a richly entertaining read.

Author : Gilles Dagneau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 887301769X

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Ava Gardner by Gilles Dagneau Pdf

Retracing the artistic and private life of a beautiful, charismatic, and exceptional movie queen, this splendidly illustrated biography draws fascinating and hitherto unexplored parallels between Ava Gardner’s personal life and her screen roles. The accounts of each of Ava’s films—including cast, credits, and a brief synopsis—are accompanied by a rich selection of private and public black-and-white as well as color photos. More than the story of a woman, this is the story of a myth that sheds new light on an enigmatic, enchanting movie legend. Her fascinating story is brought to life through Gilles Dagneau’s sharp, psychological study and the sumptuous photography.

Author : Anthony Summers,Robbyn Swan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307427762

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Sinatra by Anthony Summers,Robbyn Swan Pdf

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled relationships with U.S. presidents. Exclusive breakthroughs include the discovery of how the Mafia connection began--in a remote Sicilian village--and moving interviews with his lovers. Never-before-published conversations with Ava Gardner get to the core of the tragic passion that dominated his life, came close to destroying him, and made his best work heartbreakingly personal. Sinatra delivers the full life story of a complex, flawed genius.

Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101635476

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Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen Pdf

Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.

Author : Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781501139239

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Pdf

The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized. This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and her tumultuous Tinseltown journey comes with unexpected twists and the most satisfying of drama.

Author : Mearene Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0615686516

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Living with Miss G by Mearene Jordan Pdf

Many books have been written about the fascinating public and private life of Ava Gardner, one of the most famous and beautiful film stars of all time-but none can compare to this one by Mearene "Rene" Jordan. While some biographers had to rely on second-hand knowledge and newspaper and magazine articles that were often unreliable or deliberately inaccurate, Jordan (whose nickname is pronounced "Reenie") was on the scene for countless real-life Gardner episodes that rivaled any fiction. It is a must-read for classic movie enthusiasts and also for those who need a reminder of what true friendship is.

Author : George Cukor
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1578063876

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George Cukor by George Cukor Pdf

Collected interviews with the director of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady

Author : George Jacobs,William Stadiem
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061913884

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Mr. S by George Jacobs,William Stadiem Pdf

"Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, by former valet-aide George Jacobs with an oh-so-able assist by William Stadiem, has at least five quotable and shocking remarks about the famous on every page. The fifteen years Jacobs toiled for Frank produces a classic of its genre -- a gold-star gossip-lover's dream.... "The rest is showbiz history as it was, and only Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, and Betty Bacall are spared. Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Juliet Prowse, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Mia Farrow, Elvis Presley, Swifty Lazar, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jimmy van Heusen, Edie Goetz, Peter Lawford, and all of the Kennedys come in for heaping portions of 'deep dish,' served hot. Sordid, trashy, funny, and so rat-a-tat with its smart inside info and hip instant analysis that some of it seems too good to be true....

Author : Patricia Bosworth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547152578

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Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth Pdf

In the hands of a seasoned, tenacious biographer, the evolution of one of the century's most controversial and successful women becomes nothing less than the enthralling saga of a mythic American life.