After a nap in hair and makeup and a glass of champagne, I’d be ready for my close-up at nine, thank you Mr. DeMille,” she said in Ava Gardner The Secret Conversations. “I don't know how I ...

When a smitten great-grandson of Charles Darwin pronounced Ava Gardner "the highest specimen ... She was a wild country girl and liked to let her hair down and fling off her shoes and have a ...

A month before her passing, in 1990, Ava Gardner received a magazine clipping ... of flies crawling on Ava’s forehead and in her hair,” recalled Gregory, who praised his co-star’s courage.