Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations - Hardcover

Gardner, Ava; Evans, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1471101134 ISBN 13: 9781471101137

Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Description; 293 pages, [8] pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990. Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

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'An extraordinary read' The Lady

'Evans was trying to do a brisk competent professional job and then go back to his novel; Ava was a lonely old woman who needed someone to talk to in the middle of the night. Their agendas were bound to clash but it is precisely this clash that gives The Secret Conversations its vitality' Sunday Times
'Glamorous and captivating... here it is at last, full of wit and gossip' Woman's Weekly

'This new biography reveals the extraordinary life of one of Hollywood s greatest leading ladies' Woman & Home

'The anecdotes are ghoulishly compelling...Gardner irresistibly evokes a roughhouse version of Sunset Boulevard's Norman Desmond' Metro

'Evans's book preserves all the wicked wit and withering judgements of Gardner at her most unguarded' --Herald

Reseña del editor:

Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1471101134
• ISBN 13: 9781471101137
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304