Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood history, Ava Gardner left her mark during her almost 50-year film career. But her roles in movies like The Barefoot Contessa and Show ...

Ava Gardner fans will soon be able to get an intimate glimpse into the personal life of the beloved movie star this spring in Smithfield, North Carolina. The Ava Garner Museum will be throwing a ...

A black-and-white photo of 19-year-old Ava Gardner posing for her MGM employment questionnaire in 1942 has surfaced online, and it is storming its way through social media. Fans are going gaga over ...

These, or some equivalent, were words that were used to describe Hollywood's Ava Gardner, once branded by MGM as "The World's Most Beautiful Animal." Better that, perhaps, then The World's Most ...

Hollywood called her 'œthe most beautiful animal in the world,' but lore has it that the camera never did her justice. Raised on a North Carolina tobacco farm, Ava Gardner was 18 when she signed an ...

One night in 1963, when Frank Sinatra Jr. was hiding out in Madrid, Ava Gardner called his hotel room. “Oh Frank, it’s Ava; I want to pick you up and bring you to my house,” Sinatra Jr. recalled her ...

She also swore like a navvy - there are more eff-words in this show than anything I’ve ever seen. Even the hard-nosed Daily Express journalist ghosting her proposed autobiography in the 1980s, Peter ...

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Mel Pearce, a good old boy who grew up in Winston, will never forget Ava Gardner. “She was a beautiful lady, that’s for sure,” Pearce told me last week. He knew her close-up as few others did, images ...

At the ripe old age of 32, having collected three ex-husbands-Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra-Ava Gardner waxed introspective: ""I still believe the most important thing in life is to be ...