Ava Gardner : "love is nothing" / Lee Server.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Server, Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990.

Gardner, Ava.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.

Summary:

The first full-length biography of the farm girl from North Carolina who became a Hollywood goddess. It recreates a life of glamour, hedonism, and self-destruction, painted in bold colors on the canvas of big-studio Hollywood in the forties and fifties, exotic locations, the Rome of La Dolce Vita, and the Spain of bullfighters and dictators. Her stunning beauty and lack of inhibition led to a tumultuous private life and a long search for love, including marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, and relationships with Hemingway, Howard Hughes, George C. Scott, and famous matador Mario Cabre.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Ava

Goddess country

Zombies at the Beachcomber

Femme fatale

Venus in furs

Frankie goes to Hollywood

Torrid was your blood

Tempt me to madness

Spanish for Cinderella

Sun and shadow

Vita, Dolce vita

"Love is nothing..."

Venus falling.

Notes:

Filmography: pages [527]-533.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [501]-525) and index.

ISBN:

0312312091

OCLC:

61285687

Publisher Number:

9780312312091