Peter Evans - Ava Gardner - The Secret Conversations
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- Название:Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
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- ISBN:978-1-4516-2769-5
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Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s great stars during the 1940s and 1950s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. Her films included Show Boat, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Barefoot Contessa, and On the Beach. But her life off the screen was every bit as fabulous as her film roles.
Born poor in rural North Carolina, Gardner was given a Hollywood tryout thanks to a stunning photo of her displayed in a shop window. Not long after arriving in Hollywood, she caught the eye of Mickey Rooney, then America’s #1 box-office draw. Rooney was a womanizer so notorious that even his mother warned Gardner about him. They married, but the marriage lasted only a year (“my shortest husband and my biggest mistake”). Ava then married band leader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, who would eventually marry eight times, but that marriage, too, lasted only about a year (“he was a dominating son of a bitch… always putting me down”). She carried on a passionate affair with Howard Hughes but didn’t love him, she said. Her third marriage was a tempestuous one to Frank Sinatra (“We were fighting all the time. Fighting and boozing. It was madness…. But he was good in the feathers”).
Faithfully recording Ava’s reminiscences in this book, Peter Evans describes their late-night conversations when Ava, having had something to drink and unable to sleep, was at her most candid. So candid, in fact, that when she read her own words, she backed out and halted the book. Only now, years after her death, could this frank and revealing memoir be published.
“If I get into this stuff, oh, honey, have you got something coming,” Ava told Evans. Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations is the stunning story of a legendary star’s public and private lives.
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About the Authors “I read
in a delirious gulp. It is absolutely terrific. I couldn’t put it down. Gardner comes across as a flamboyant but tragic figure who always spoke the truth no matter how painful. And the way writer Peter Evans has shaped their conversations is truly remarkable.”
(Patricia Bosworth, author of
) “Jaw-dropping anecdotes about film legends and the studio system in its heyday make this an irresistible read…. Even seasoned fans will learn fresh tidbits about ex-husbands Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, as well as her tumultuous relationships with Howard Hughes and George C. Scott…. Gardner is funny and frank, and Evans’s diligence makes the book not only one of the more revealing celebrity autobiographies published recently, but a candid glimpse into the world of a ghostwriter, star handler, and late-night confidante.”
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) “An unvarnished account of [Gardner’s] marriages and affairs in golden-age Hollywood…. Give[s] a vivid sense of Gardner’s salty, no-BS personality…. Juicy.”
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) “A complete delight…. [Gardner’s] quotes exude the musk of a woman supremely indifferent to the social proprieties and expectations of her era…. Hers is the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker.”
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Goring, Marius, 233
Grable, Betty, 35–36, 207, 245
Grabtown, N.C., 31, 43
Graduate, The, 2, 262–63
Grant, Cary, 116, 119, 187
Graves, Robert, 149
Gray, Charles, 269
Grayson, Kathryn, 122, 168
Greer, Howard, 274
Grimaldi, Gracie, see Kelly, Grace
Guest, Charlie, 252
Harem, 217
Harlow, Jean, 125, 190, 267
Harrison, Rex, 277
Hawkins, Coleman, 206
Hawks, Howard, 187, 188
Hayworth, Rita, 231, 235
Hellman, Lillian, 50
Hell’s Angels, 191
Hemingway, Ernest, 26, 106, 262
Killers and, 54, 62
Snows of Kilimanjaro and, 62
Sun Also Rises and, 15–16, 17, 42, 62, 182, 260
Hemmings, David, 277
Hendry, Whitey, 239
Hepburn, Katharine, 125, 187, 190, 247
His Way (Kelley), 179, 221, 228–29
Hitler’s Madman, 9
Holden, William, 102
Holiday, Billie, 206
Hoover, Herbert, 135
Hopper, Hedda, 125, 135
Horne, Lena, 205
House Un-American Activities Committee, 205
Hucksters, The, 152
Hughes, Howard, 63, 99, 201, 209, 236, 239, 262, 265
Ava’s relationship with, 7, 54, 91, 97, 103, 186–93, 208, 235, 241, 245, 247–53, 256–59, 274
Bappie and, 250, 251, 252
Turner and, 190, 247
Huston, John, 2, 16, 26, 35, 63, 99, 143, 183, 207, 262
on Ava, 10
Ava on, 9, 31–33, 54–56
on Cardiff, 62
smoking of, 114, 213
James, Harry, 273
Johnny (Inez’s husband), 44
Johnson, Nunnally, 213
Kelley, Kitty, 179, 221, 228–29, 280
Kelly, Grace, 53, 54, 125
Kennedy, Jackie, 11, 19
Kennedy, Joe, 38
Kennedy, Robert, 41
Kern, Betty, 207
Kern, Jerome, 204, 270
Kerr, Deborah, 15, 17–18, 261
Keyes, Evelyn, 32, 35, 55
Killers, The (film), 9, 32, 54, 62, 65, 99, 207, 235, 241
Killers, The (Hemingway), 54, 62
Knights of the Round Table, 176
Knots Landing, 217
Korda, Michael, 51
Koverman, Ida, 135–36, 253
Kraft, Hy, 205
Lancaster, Burt, 99
Lauren Bacall: By Myself, 51
Lawford, Peter, 132, 166–68
Lazar, Irving Paul “Swifty,” 50–53
Letter to Three Wives, A, 234
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The, 56
Loew’s Inc., 92, 93
Lombard, Carole, 152
Long Hot Summer, The (Faulkner), 217
Long Hot Summer, The (film), 217
Lord Jeff, 167
Losey, Joseph, 12
Lugosi, Bela, 168
Lupino, Ida, 190
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 11
Maisie Goes to Reno, 9
Mankiewicz, Joe, 26, 61–62, 63, 65, 233–36
Mann, Thomas, 16
Mannix, Eddie, 139–41, 153, 168, 169–70, 187, 242
marijuana, 225–26
Martin, Freddy, 117
Mason, James, 217
Maxwell, Marilyn, 224–25
Mayer, Edith (Goetz), 123, 136
Mayer, Irene, 123, 136
Mayer, Louis B., 63, 134, 139–41, 235, 247, 253, 273
Ava on, 110, 124, 136, 137
and Rooney’s relationship with Ava, 121–25, 126, 135–38, 141, 152, 153, 168, 169–70, 187, 193, 206, 242–43
Mayer, Margaret, 136
Meet Danny Wilson, 178, 238
Meyer, Johnny, 187–89, 235–36, 247, 249, 250–51
MGM, 59, 77, 120–23, 126, 132, 168–69, 193, 202, 223–24, 242, 245, 247, 261, 270, 273
Ava’s contract with, 15, 30, 97–100, 106, 107–8, 110, 159, 171, 177, 187, 206, 217, 234, 271
Ava’s interview and video test with, 93–95
Ava’s pictures sent to, 92–93
press and publicity of, 37, 105, 239, 276
Rooney as biggest star at, 12, 67, 141
Sinatra fired by, 237
MGM International, 275
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 120
Miller, Sid, 167
Mills, Paul, 77, 78, 105, 131, 261, 275, 276
Mills, Spoli, 131, 195, 233, 261, 266, 275, 276, 277
memoir anxieties of, 77–78, 101, 105
Miranda, Carmen, 112
Mitchum, Dorothy, 226
Mitchum, Robert, 225–26, 262
Mogambo, 87, 195, 228, 267, 268, 271, 276
Monogram, 168
Monroe, Marilyn, 19, 78
Monroe, Vaughn, 94
Morgan, Frank, 120
Morgan, Jess, 22, 85, 280
Morgan (Ava’s dog), 57, 217
Morrison, Greg, 98–99, 276
Mrs. Miniver, 110
Muni, Paul, 138
My Forbidden Past, 225
New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 120
Newport News, Va., 46, 63, 68–72, 75, 81–82, 87, 90, 198
New York Daily Mirror, 178
Nichols, Mike, 262–63
Night of the Iguana, The (film), 6, 10, 17, 62
Night of the Iguana, The (Williams), 6, 62
Night Porter, The, 13
Ninochka, 121
Nixon, Richard, 50
O’Brien, Edmond, 62, 235–36
O’Brien, Pat, 245
Odets, Clifford, 50
O’Hara, John, 207
O’Hara, Scarlett (char.), 55, 85
Olivier, Laurence, 19
Onassis, Aristotle, 10–11, 150, 175
Open Book, An (Huston), 9
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, 7, 225, 234, 273
Pankey, Fred, 134
Parker, Dorothy, 156
Parsons, Louella, 125, 134
Pearson, Billy, 56
Perelman, S. J. (Sid), 207
Peters, Jean, 190
Peterson, Les, 123, 124, 141, 142, 145, 153
Porter, Cole, 50
Poverty Row, 168
Power, Tyrone, 183
Priest of Love, 217
Puzo, Mario, 280
Racing Form, 121, 134
Raft, George, 35, 63, 99, 206–7, 245
Random Harvest, 109
Rat Pack, 236
Red Dust, 267
Reed, Donna, 122, 168
Rene (maid), 238
Reynolds, R. J., 169
Robards, Jason, 217
Robinson, Eddie G., 138
Rogers, Ginger, 190, 252
Romm, May, 243
Rooney, Mickey, 58, 59, 91, 104, 164, 184, 201, 202, 206, 207, 209, 215, 241, 250, 256, 258–59
Ava courted and affianced by, 113–17, 119–27, 133–38, 139–41
Ava on, 103, 119–20, 121, 122, 143, 145, 249, 257
Ava’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
Ava’s first meeting with, 98, 106, 110, 111–14
Ava’s marriage to, 11–12, 31, 34, 35–36, 67, 72–73, 91, 97, 99–103, 114–15, 132–38, 141–43, 144–45, 152–55, 156–60, 165–71, 203, 223, 246
Ava’s post-marriage relations with, 73, 102, 160, 189, 252–53, 256, 260
drinking of, 121, 157, 167
infidelity of, 63, 132–34, 158–59, 160, 165–66, 167–68, 169, 170, 242
Mayer and, 121–25, 126, 135–38, 141, 152, 153, 168, 169–70, 187, 193, 206, 242–43
as MGM’s biggest star, 12, 67, 141
money collected by bookies from, 159–60, 166, 243
size of, 11, 64, 166, 192
Turner and, 115, 133, 160, 166
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 67, 150, 155, 156, 245
Russell, Jane, 190, 252
Rutherford, Ann, 122, 166
Sachs, Manny, 271, 274
Salinger, J. D., 26
Saroyan, William, 207
Schenck, Joe, 140
Schenck, Marvin, 93–95
Schenck, Nicholas M., 93, 140, 214
Schulberg, Budd, 15
Scott, George C., 7, 143, 202–3, 252
Scott, Hazel, 94
Servant, The, 12
Sharif, Omar, 217
Shaw, Artie, 113, 201, 227, 247, 257, 274
on Ava, 264–65
Ava on, 64, 137–38, 192, 201, 250
Ava’s divorce of, 125, 205, 206, 245
Ava’s marriage to, 15, 16, 31–33, 34–35, 37–38, 54–55, 112, 186, 201, 203–4, 207–8, 225–26, 241, 243, 245, 252
music and, 205–6, 208–9
Turner and, 201–2, 227, 247, 252
Shipman, David, 6
Show Boat, 178, 234, 270
Siegel, Benny, 63
Simon, Neil, 50
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