Ava Gardner embodied Hollywood glamour like no other — her beauty, talent, charm and charisma made her one of the biggest stars of The Golden Age of Hollywood. However, the daughter of a poor tobacco ...

On Christmas Eve in 1922, an unexpected seventh child arrived in the Gardner household — a spunky tomboy girl who would one day dazzle Hollywood, dance the flamenco barefoot and turn Frank Sinatra’s ...

The stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood are more image than substance, more enigma than knowable. That paradox between the ubiquity of their face and the truths of their innermost lives is at the ...

When an aging movie goddess, Ava Gardner, asks a journalist to write her memoir in Elizabeth McGovern’s new play, “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” she is blunt about her motives: “I need the money.” ...

When a smitten great-grandson of Charles Darwin pronounced Ava Gardner "the highest specimen of the human species," he summed up the consensus about this voluptuous movie queen. With remarkable ...

Read full article: Central Florida businesses rally to send aid to Jamaica before Hurricane Melissa strikes island NEW YORK – For all of Elizabeth McGovern's acting career, someone else wrote her ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in. Elizabeth McGovern plays ...