Peter Evans - Ava Gardner - The Secret Conversations

and Viertel’s warnings about Ava, 15–17, 21, 24, 88–89, 150, 182–83

Exit, 2–3

Family Affair, A, 120

Farrow, Mia, 265

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 13

Faulkner, William, 217

Ferrer, Mel, 177

Fidler, Jimmie, 125

Fields, W. C., 116

Films and Filming, 12

Fink, Hymie, 188

Flynn, Errol, 63

Ford, Henry, 142, 153, 243

Ford, John, 26, 195, 221, 228, 267, 268

Forever Amber (Winsor), 205

Franka (Ava’s friend), 217

From Here to Eternity, 159, 280

Frost, David, 50

Gable, Clark, 74, 87, 88, 93, 99, 108, 137, 139, 152, 153, 189, 191, 224, 246, 262

Garbo, Greta, 16, 125

Gardner, Ava, 15–16, 77–80, 87–88, 173–75, 275–77, 279

abortions of, 267–68

accent of, 72, 94, 95, 125, 214

in A.D., 217

affairs and lovers of, 5–6, 7, 16, 54–55, 63, 97, 99, 103, 143, 177, 186–93, 202–3, 206–7, 224–26, 236–37, 238–39, 247–51, 252–53, 259, 262–63, 273, 274

in Barefoot Contessa, 7, 61, 63, 65, 232–36, 271

beauty of, 5, 6, 17, 20, 32, 45, 61–62, 83, 85, 98, 125, 158, 188, 201, 238, 261

Bogarde on, 13, 26–27

on Bogart, 233–34, 236

on Brando, 18–19

Burton on, 6

Cardiff on, 7–8

childhood of, 31, 36–47, 67–75, 89, 216

comment on Sinatra’s penis by, 179–80, 181–82, 195, 196, 221, 228–29

on Dali, 272

on death and aging, 2–4, 20–22, 24–25, 27, 219, 256, 269

death of, 264, 281

depression of, 2–4, 41–42, 156, 215, 218–19

on divorce, 39, 245

doubts of, about memoir, 9–10, 17, 58–59, 80, 100–103, 151, 175, 280

drinking of, 6–7, 8, 13, 38, 40, 53–54, 86, 101, 105, 111, 112, 126, 142, 150, 165, 167, 169, 175, 178, 196, 203–4, 224, 225, 226, 243, 249, 256, 262, 269, 271

education of, 45, 71–72, 203

Evans kissed by, 265–66

at Evans’s home for dinner, 276–77

Evans’s meetings with, 18–22, 28–30, 31–47, 53–60, 80–82, 84–86, 88–96, 97–106, 107–17, 119–27, 129–38, 139–43, 149–51, 184–193, 221–29, 260–66, 269–74

Evans’s notes written to, 164, 241–42

Evans’s phone calls with, 1–4, 5–6, 8–12, 23–28, 49–53, 61–66, 82–83, 143–47, 155–57, 175–79, 181–84, 196–209, 211–19, 231–40, 255–60, 267–69

on father’s death, 64, 68, 81, 87, 89, 90, 97, 155, 198

finances of, 20, 28, 33, 52, 70, 81, 85, 149, 197, 234, 280

in Ghosts on the Loose, 242

in Harem, 217

hospitalized in St. John’s, 270–71

in Hucksters, 152

Hughes and, 7, 54, 91, 97, 103, 186–93, 208, 235, 241, 245, 247–53, 256–59, 274

on Huston, 9, 31–33, 54–56

Huston on, 10

in Killers, 9, 32, 62, 65, 99, 207, 235, 241

in Knights of the Round Table, 176–77

in Knots Landing, 217

in Long Hot Summer, 217

lung conditions and concerns of, 2, 211–13, 218

as man-eater, 5–6, 7, 8, 16, 18, 183, 262

on Mankiewicz, 62–63, 234–35

on Mayer, 110, 124, 136, 137

memory and concentration lapses of, 29, 33, 57

MGM’s contract with, 15, 30, 97–100, 106, 107–8, 110, 159, 171, 177, 187, 206, 217, 234, 271

MGM’s interview and video test of, 93–95

in Mogambo, 228, 267–68, 271, 276

Morrison on, 98–99

mother’s death and, 243, 247, 250

in My Forbidden Past, 225

in Night of the Iguana, 6, 10, 62

on Onassis, 11–12

in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, 7, 234, 273

pictures of, sent to MGM, 92–93

in Priest of Love, 217

profanity of, 17, 28, 129, 182, 183–84, 185, 249, 255

psychoanalysis of, 38, 112–13, 243

puberty of, 74–75

on religion, 67–68

on Rooney, 103, 119–20, 122, 143, 145, 249, 257

Rooney’s courtship and engagement to, 113–17, 119–27, 133–38, 139–41

Rooney’s divorce from, 11, 54, 73, 91, 97, 156, 160–61, 168–69, 170–71, 185–86, 187, 192–93, 206, 242–45, 246–47, 251, 257, 260

Rooney’s first meeting with, 98, 106, 110, 111–14

Rooney’s marriage to, 11–12, 31, 34, 35–36, 67, 72–73, 91, 97, 99–103, 114–15, 132–38, 141–143, 144–45, 152–55, 156–60, 165–71, 203, 223, 246

Scott’s abuse of, 7, 143, 202–3, 252

sensuality and sexuality of, 6–7, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22, 72–73, 85, 154, 166–67, 185–86, 227, 244, 256–59, 264–65

on Shaw, 64, 137–38, 192, 201, 250

Shaw on, 264–65

Shaw’s divorce of, 125, 206, 252

Shaw’s marriage to, 15, 16, 31–33, 34–35, 37–38, 54–55, 112, 186, 201, 203–4, 207–8, 241, 243, 245, 252

in Show Boat, 178, 234

on Sinatra, 1–2, 56, 64, 137, 159, 192, 222–23, 227, 237, 264–65

Sinatra on, 38, 44

Sinatra’s affair with, 176–79, 225

Sinatra’s divorce from, 8, 222

Sinatra’s marriage to, 7, 16, 31, 51, 79, 125, 158, 175–79, 224, 227, 236–38, 245, 250, 265, 270–71, 272–74

sleeping troubles of, 1–2, 23, 89–90, 146, 155, 196–97, 211, 212, 231, 232, 233, 255–56

smoking of, 10, 20, 34, 36, 42, 45, 84, 114, 132, 202, 211, 212, 213, 216, 218, 226

in Snows of Kilimanjaro, 62, 234

Snyder and Victor in meeting with, 79–86

Spoli Mills on, 77–78

strokes of, 7, 13, 17, 20, 21, 24–25, 27, 28, 33, 35, 53, 65, 83, 145, 212, 213–19, 222, 237, 269, 275

in Sun Also Rises, 16–17, 42, 62, 85, 182–83

Tarr’s launching of, 92–93, 141–42

on Turner, 9, 45, 63

on Victor, 22, 50, 52

Victor on, 8

Viertel on, 15–17, 21, 24, 88–89, 150, 182–83

virginity lost by, 12, 73, 126–27, 142–43, 144

in Whistle Stop, 63, 99, 206–7, 241

Gardner, Ava Virginia (aunt), 31, 38, 39, 42, 44

Gardner, Beatrice “Bappie” (sister), 68, 133, 154, 159, 177, 187, 228–29, 238, 274

drinking of, 169

father and, 38, 41, 71

in Hollywood with Ava, 95–96, 97, 107, 109–10, 116, 152

Hughes and, 250, 251, 252

mother and, 125, 250

in New York, 75, 93, 94

pregnancy of, 44

Rooney and, 122, 126

Sinatra and, 227

Tarr and, 71, 92, 93, 141–42, 170–71

Gardner, Elsie Mae (sister), 40–41, 44

Gardner, Inez (sister), 44, 95, 96, 97, 154, 246

Gardner, James Bailey (grandfather), 38, 40, 261

Gardner, Jonas (father), 46, 70, 82, 91, 190, 198–200, 246

death of, 64, 68, 81, 87, 89, 90, 97, 155, 198

drinking of, 38, 41

as farmer, 36–37, 72, 216

first son lost by, 43–44

illness and dying of, 67–68, 69, 71, 93, 198, 236

Molly’s marriage to, 127

parents of, 39, 40

poverty of, 36–37, 43, 68, 216

Gardner, Mary Elizabeth “Molly” (mother), 42–46, 71, 72, 82, 95–96, 109, 125, 126, 156, 199–200

Ava’s puberty and, 74–75

Ava’s trip to NYC with, 93

cancer of, 81, 91, 95, 97, 103, 154–55, 208, 246

children and family of, 36, 38–39

death of, 97, 243, 247, 250

Jonas’s marriage to, 127

poverty of, 43, 68, 216

working of, 44, 46, 68–70, 90

Gardner, Melvin Jonas “Jack” (brother), 43, 91

Gardner, Mrs. James Bailey (grandmother), 39

Gardner, Myra (sister), 43, 44, 46, 75, 110, 216

Gardner, Raymond (brother), 43–44

Garland, Judy, 112, 120, 166, 224, 246

Garson, Greer, 110

Ghosts on the Loose, 9, 168, 242

Gilbert, Martin, 150

Godfather, The, 280

Goetz, Edith Mayer, 123, 136

Going Hollywood, 46

Goldwyn, Sam, 15

Gone With the Wind, 55, 72