Ava Gardner
by Lee Server
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The first full-length biography of the farm girl from North Carolina who became a Hollywood goddess. It recreates a life of glamour, hedonism, and self-destruction, painted in bold colors on the canvas of big-studio Hollywood in the forties and fifties, exotic locations, the Rome of La Dolce Vita, and the Spain of bullfighters and dictators. Her stunning beauty and lack of inhibition led to a tumultuous private life and a long search for love, including marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw show more and Frank Sinatra, and relationships with Hemingway, Howard Hughes, George C. Scott, and famous matador Mario Cabre.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Lee Server is the author of the critically acclaimed Danger Is My Business, Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground, Over My Dead Body, and other works on cinema history and popular culture
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.4302 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions
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- PN2287 .G37 .S47 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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- English, Spanish
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