Goodreads: 3.95/5
Sarah: Ava Gardner was one of the coolest women to ever live in my opinion. Yes, she was a major film star back in the day, and ridiculously gorgeous and elegant, but she also swore like a sailor and had zero issues saying exactly what she meant. I very highly recommend diving into her glamourous life and loves.
She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard Hughes begged her to marry him—but she knocked out his front teeth instead.
She was one of the great icons in Hollywood history—star of The Killers, The Barefoot Contessa, and The Night of the Iguana—and one of the few whose actual life was grander and more colorful than any movie. Her jaw-dropping beauty, charismatic presence, and fabulous, scandalous adventures fueled the legend of Ava Gardner—Hollywood's most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star.
Goodreads: 3.95/5
Sarah: Ava Gardner was one of the coolest women to ever live in my opinion. Yes, she was a major film star back in the day, and ridiculously gorgeous and elegant, but she also swore like a sailor and had zero issues saying exactly what she meant. I very highly recommend diving into her glamourous life and loves.
She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard Hughes begged her to marry him—but she knocked out his front teeth instead.
She was one of the great icons in Hollywood history—star of The Killers, The Barefoot Contessa, and The Night of the Iguana—and one of the few whose actual life was grander and more colorful than any movie. Her jaw-dropping beauty, charismatic presence, and fabulous, scandalous adventures fueled the legend of Ava Gardner—Hollywood's most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star.
ISBN: 9780312312107
