Peter Evans - Ava Gardner - The Secret Conversations
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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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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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Sinatra, Frank, 5, 42, 52, 58, 59, 80, 99, 116, 139, 202, 226–28, 238–39, 262, 267, 276, 280
on Ava, 38, 44
Ava on, 1–2, 56, 64, 137, 159, 192, 222–23, 227, 237, 264–65
Ava’s affair with, 176–79, 225
Ava’s divorce from, 8, 222
Ava’s marriage to, 7, 16, 31, 51, 79, 125, 158, 175–79, 224, 227, 236–38, 245, 250, 265, 270–71, 272–74
Ava’s memoir and, 175–76
drinking of, 178, 224
fans of, 153
fired by MGM, 237
mock suicides of, 7, 271
music and, 49, 208–9, 222–23, 224, 273
Nancy’s divorce from, 177–78, 224, 227, 270, 274
penis comment and, 179–80, 181–82, 195, 196, 221, 228–29
smoking by, 232
Turner and, 227
as unfaithful, 176–79, 224–25
Sinatra, Nancy, 177–78, 224–25, 227, 270, 273, 274
Skolsky, Sidney, 125
Smith, Luddy, 247
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (film), 62, 234
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (Hemingway), 62
Snyder, Dick, 98, 100, 112, 132, 149, 179–80, 181, 195
Ava’s meeting with, 79–86, 173
Spain, 225
“Stardust,” 222
Steinbeck, John, 42
Steiner, Max, 85
Stevens, Warren, 236
Stewart, James, 116
Stormy Weather, 205
Strickling, Howard, 139–40, 239
Sturges, Preston, 248
Sugar Babies, 11
Sullivan’s Travels, 248
Sun Also Rises, The (film), 15–17, 42, 62, 85, 150, 182, 260
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 15–16, 17, 42, 62, 182, 260
Sunset Boulevard, 102
Swanson, Gloria, 102
Tarr, Beatrice Gardner, see Gardner, Beatrice “Bappie”
Tarr, Larry, 71, 92–93, 141–42, 170–71
Taylor, Elizabeth, 22, 85, 98
Taylor, Robert, 176, 177, 262
Teacherage, 44–46, 69–70, 90
Theodora (Evans), 8, 23, 82, 150, 174
Thomson, David, 120
Time, 238
Tracy, Spencer, 63, 120, 137, 245, 246
Truman, Harry, 136
Turner, Lana, 125, 160, 168
Ava on, 9, 45, 63
Hughes and, 190, 247
Rooney and, 115, 133, 160, 166
Shaw and, 201–2, 227, 247, 252
Sinatra and, 227
smoking by, 45, 114
wrinkles of, 9, 83
TWA, 188, 250
Twentieth Century-Fox, 205
24 Hours, 280
Two-Faced Woman, 121
Un-American Activities Committee, 205
Vargas, Carmen, 18, 269
Vargas, Maria (char.), 234–35
Variety, 207
Veiller, Tony, 32, 54
Victor, Ed, 98, 112, 164, 171, 174–75, 179–80, 181, 184, 221, 256, 279–81
advice to Evans from, 8, 150
on Ava, 8
Ava on, 22, 50, 52
Ava’s meeting with Snyder and, 79–86
Evans’s friendship with, 6, 52, 173–75
father and, 200–201
Viertel, Berthold, 16
Viertel, Peter, 15–18, 51, 56, 261
warnings about Ava from, 15–17, 21, 24, 88–89, 150, 182–83
Viertel, Salka, 16
Viertel, Virginia “Jigee,” 15
Virginia (maid), 45–46, 69, 74, 110, 192
Visconti, Luchino, 13
Wallace, Henry, 136
Warner Brothers, 54
Weiss, Milton, 108–9, 114
Welles, Orson, 16, 231–32
Whistle Stop, 63, 99, 206–7, 241
Williams, Esther, 122, 168
Williams, Tennessee, 6, 26, 62
Wilson, Teddy, 206
Winner, Michael, 10, 33
Winsor, Kathleen, 205, 252
Winters, Shelley, 178, 238
Wizard of Oz, The, 120
Yank at Eton, A, 167
Yule, Joe, Sr., 120, 134, 141
Zinnemann, Fred, 159
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Peter.
Ava Gardner : the secret conversations / Peter Evans and Ava Gardner. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
pages cm
Includes index.
1. Gardner, Ava, 1922–1990. 2. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287.G37E84 2013
791.4302’8092—dc23
[B] 2012048411
ISBN 978-1-4516-2769-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-2771-8 (ebook)
1: Courtesy of the Ava Gardner Trust · 2, 4: State Archives of North Carolina and The News and Observer , Raleigh, North Carolina · 3, 9: Everett Collection · 5, 8: Photofest · 10: Hulton Archive/Getty Images · 11, 13: © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis · 6, 7, 12, 14: © Bettman/Corbis · 15: © 1983 Tom Zimberoff.
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