A month before her passing, in 1990, Ava Gardner received a magazine clipping and a note from her friend Gregory Peck. “You are always on our minds. Try hard to get better,” he wrote to her ...

The director, Stanley Kramer, was on a roll, and the stars were some of Hollywood's biggest: square-jawed Gregory Peck, glamorous Ava Gardner, twinkle-toed Fred Astaire. No wonder crowds lined the ...

Three of the biggest stars from the golden age of Hollywood — Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire — filmed On the Beach in Melbourne in early 1959. Crowds of starstruck onlookers ...

Ava Gardner’s family moved to Newport News ... But she always resisted her fame. Gregory Peck, her friend for 40 years, put it this way: “Ava always saw herself as this little country girl ...

It was true that Peck could seem wooden ... and as a submarine commander on the brink of nuclear war and Ava Gardner in On the Beach (1959). In civilian dress he attempted, disastrously, to ...