Elizabeth McGovern is fired up when she talks about Ava Gardner, whom the Downton Abbey star portrays in a stage show that ...

Two years later, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Ava Lavinia Gardner (her real name) to a seven-year contract — even though she had no professional acting experience and had even failed to win a ...

“Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations” by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner has an attention-grabbing title. “Secret” was a word seldom associated with the gorgeous movie star wh… ...

Ava Gardner, the Hollywood actress who died Thursday, spent her teen-age years in Newport News, where former friends remember her as anything but movie star material. In the early 1930s, Ava Lavini… ...

Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew ...

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared in small roles until she drew attention with ...

Ava Gardner, the Hollywood actress who died Thursday, spent her teen-age years in Newport News, where former friends remember her as anything but movie star material. In the early 1930s, Ava Lavini… ...

Ava Gardner, the Hollywood actress who died Thursday, spent her teen-age years in Newport News, where former friends remember her as anything but movie star material. In the early 1930s, Ava Lavini… ...

Ava Lavinia Gardner. Dec. 24, 1922. Jan. 25, 1990 "I grew up watching her movies and all that," said 67-year-old Bryan Hobbs, who on a sunny Wednesday afternoon was watering the flowers at the ...

Ava Gardner packed a lot of living -- and loving -- into her 67 years, and Lee Server seems hell bent on chronicling every dalliance in excruciating detail. Relying heavily on fading memories of ...

Ava Gardner (1922 - 1990) and American jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw pose together the day after their wedding, October 18, 1945. Eric Carpenter/Hulton Archive/Getty Gardner married her ...