Ava Gardner, a classic Hollywood femme fatale who was once voted the world’s most beautiful woman, may have been more famous for her off-screen drama than for her on-screen performances. Mickey Rooney ...

In 1988, now in her mid-60s and partially paralysed by a series of strokes, Ava Gardner contacted an English journalist called Peter Evans. She was living in Knightsbridge, but in relative penury: he ...

Born 100 years ago this Christmas, she may not have been the greatest star Hollywood ever produced, but she is one of its most enduring Volatile: Gardner in 1945. Photo by Silver Screen ...

Three stormy marriages, heartbreak, ill health: Ava Gardner was famed as much for her off-screen antics as her film roles. Now Downton star Elizabeth McGovern is bringing her tale to the stage To be ...

Ava Gardner was married to some of music and pop culture’s biggest stars. But she was a talented film actress in her own right – a real woman with curves and a face that could kill – which is why one ...

The library in the Ava Gardner Museum is filled with portraits painted by Bert Pfeiffer, who vowed to paint one of Ava every year. Logan Mock-Bunting Off Interstate 95 in Smithfield, North Carolina, ...