I EITHER WRITE THE BOOK OR SELL THE JEWELS, Ava Gardner told her coauthor, Peter Evans, and I m kinda sentimental about the jewels. So began the collaboration that led to this remarkably candid, wickedly sardonic memoir.
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood s great stars during the 1940s and 1950s, [...]

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 - January 25, 1990) was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946).She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of th[...]

Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes beg[...]

The irresistibly candid memoir of film legend Ava Gardner, which she would not permit to be published during her lifetime, finally brought to print.[...]