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The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL "Gullwing" is one of the coolest sports cars of all time. So named because of its unique, roof-hinged doors, the Gullwing was the Enzo of its era: stupendously fast, outrageously expensive, and styled to make an entrance. Clark Gable owned one; Andy Warhol painted one; Ava Gardner crashed one. No Mercedes sports car since, not even the Mercedes-McLaren SLR, has come close to matching the Gullwing's iconic appeal.
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL "Gullwing" is one of the coolest sports cars of all time. So named because of its unique, roof-hinged doors, the Gullwing was the Enzo of its era: stupendously fast, outrageously expensive, and styled to make an entrance. Clark Gable owned one; Andy Warhol painted one; Ava Gardner crashed one. No Mercedes sports car since, not even the Mercedes-McLaren SLR, has come close to matching the Gullwing's iconic appeal.
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It's been awhile - some would say too long - since Cafe Drake posted another installment in our ever-popular series of "homage" dinners. This month we feature a beloved screen siren and the only woman in cinema to ever rival the beauty of a young Liz Taylor . . . Ms. Ava Gardner.
A South Carolina cotton farmer's daughter, Ava would be delighted we believe with the menu proposed below, an equal mix of downhome Dixie standards tweaked to an urbane and sophisticated level befitting a woman who drew from both influences with flair and grace.
DINNER EN HOMAGE AVA GARDNER
Mint Juleps
Cheese Straws
Pimento Cheese Crostini
Shrimp and Grits
Endive and Bacon Salad
Red Velvet Cake
Brandy Alexanders (do use a jigger/bar measuring cup here)
1 1/2 oz brandy / 1 oz dark creme de cacao / 1 oz half-and-half /1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the brandy, creme de cacao, and half-and-half. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with the nutmeg.
It's been awhile - some would say too long - since Cafe Drake posted another installment in our ever-popular series of "homage" dinners. This month we feature a beloved screen siren and the only woman in cinema to ever rival the beauty of a young Liz Taylor . . . Ms. Ava Gardner.
A South Carolina cotton farmer's daughter, Ava would be delighted we believe with the menu proposed below, an equal mix of downhome Dixie standards tweaked to an urbane and sophisticated level befitting a woman who drew from both influences with flair and grace.
DINNER EN HOMAGE AVA GARDNER
Mint Juleps
Cheese Straws
Pimento Cheese Crostini
Shrimp and Grits
Endive and Bacon Salad
Red Velvet Cake
Brandy Alexanders (do use a jigger/bar measuring cup here)
1 1/2 oz brandy / 1 oz dark creme de cacao / 1 oz half-and-half /1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the brandy, creme de cacao, and half-and-half. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with the nutmeg.
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Ava Gardner (b. Christmas Eve 1922 in Smithfield, North Carolina - died January 25, 1990 in London, England) was one of the most extraordinary film stars of the 20th century.
Ava wasn’t just incredibly beautiful. She was the kind of complicated, utterly fascinating woman that comes along once in a very great while.
She was provocative in the most dangerous sense of the word. Ava wore her smoldering sensuality on her sleeve. She was a rebellious, green eyed Irish girl who was sophisticated and free spirited. If she had been born several decades later, she may never have married at all. No man ever owned her. She was too strong and much too independent.
Beneath all of that fire and music, there was a savage intelligence, a wicked wit and an unbreakable will. She knocked Howard Hughes out cold one night when he started slapping her around. She beat her second husband (musician Artie Shaw) at chess. He never forgave her.
Ava started out as a contract player at MGM. Despite her distracting loveliness, inwardly she was very much a small town southern girl and felt out of her depth with Hollywood’s fast crowd. She was a quick study. Ava was a notorious night owl. She discovered that she enjoyed parties and socializing.
She found her soulmate with her third husband, Frank Sinatra. That romance was legendary. But their passionate, stormy, hotblooded relationship was too intense to last. Though he remarried twice after that, she always remained the one true love of his life.
In 1946, Ava played the femme fatale Kitty Collins opposite Burt Lancaster in The Killers. That was the beginning of a landmark career. She went on to do the 50s version of Show Boat and then Mogambo, for which she received her only Academy Award nomination. Her most famous role was the tragic Spanish movie goddess that she portrayed in The Barefoot Contessa (1954).
She worked steadily throughout her life and eventually left the U.S. entirely. Ava fled to Spain and then to London, where she lived out her final years.
She was a fashion icon in the sense that she was widely admired by other women, who emulated the glamorous styles of her characters.
Ava loved the best of everything: Creed’s perfume, Dior gowns and Ferragamo shoes.
Here is Ava (opposite Clark Gable and Grace Kelly) in Mogambo:
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Ava Gardner (b. Christmas Eve 1922 in Smithfield, North Carolina - died January 25, 1990 in London, England) was one of the most extraordinary film stars of the 20th century.
Ava wasn’t just incredibly beautiful. She was the kind of complicated, utterly fascinating woman that comes along once in a very great while.
She was provocative in the most dangerous sense of the word. Ava wore her smoldering sensuality on her sleeve. She was a rebellious, green eyed Irish girl who was sophisticated and free spirited. If she had been born several decades later, she may never have married at all. No man ever owned her. She was too strong and much too independent.
Beneath all of that fire and music, there was a savage intelligence, a wicked wit and an unbreakable will. She knocked Howard Hughes out cold one night when he started slapping her around. She beat her second husband (musician Artie Shaw) at chess. He never forgave her.
Ava started out as a contract player at MGM. Despite her distracting loveliness, inwardly she was very much a small town southern girl and felt out of her depth with Hollywood’s fast crowd. She was a quick study. Ava was a notorious night owl. She discovered that she enjoyed parties and socializing.
She found her soulmate with her third husband, Frank Sinatra. That romance was legendary. But their passionate, stormy, hotblooded relationship was too intense to last. Though he remarried twice after that, she always remained the one true love of his life.
In 1946, Ava played the femme fatale Kitty Collins opposite Burt Lancaster in The Killers. That was the beginning of a landmark career. She went on to do the 50s version of Show Boat and then Mogambo, for which she received her only Academy Award nomination. Her most famous role was the tragic Spanish movie goddess that she portrayed in The Barefoot Contessa (1954).
She worked steadily throughout her life and eventually left the U.S. entirely. Ava fled to Spain and then to London, where she lived out her final years.
She was a fashion icon in the sense that she was widely admired by other women, who emulated the glamorous styles of her characters.
Ava loved the best of everything: Creed’s perfume, Dior gowns and Ferragamo shoes.
Here is Ava (opposite Clark Gable and Grace Kelly) in Mogambo:
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- <LI class=alt id=comment-604639>Lucy Andrez Says:
December 24th, 2008 at 6:50 am Ava Gardner is one of my mother’s favorite artists. My mother told me how popular Ava was. She never passed any of Ava’s movie.
<LI class="" id=comment-604651>Allan C. Says:
December 24th, 2008 at 7:08 am The wonderful clip reflects a stark contrast in women and female types:
the sultry, seductive, and sexy Ava vs. the prim and proper and graceful Grace Kelly.
No party could be dull with Ava Gardner on hand.
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<LI class=alt id=comment-605467>Busby Guy Says:
December 25th, 2008 at 9:16 pm She is so beautiful. One of my favorite artist. Happy birthday, Ava! - Virginia Santiago Says:
January 27th, 2009 at 5:45 pm There can never be another Ava Gardner!!
I have been an Ava fan since seeing her in “One Touch of Venus”, and am an Ava Advocate member of her Museum located in Smithfield, NC. Whether or not you are an Ava fan, it’s worth the trip to see the dedication to the last of the Movie Goddesses of the Golden Age of Movies.Any movie she is in, brings a talent and beauty to the screen.
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Ava Lavinia Gardner was born into a poor family of cotton farmers on Christmas Eve, 1922. When she was 18, her brother-in-law displayed a photo of her in the window of his studio; it caught the eye of an MGM executive, and the stunning green-eyed brunette was on her way to stardom.
Ava enjoyed a successful film career, most notably starring in The Sun Also Rises and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She was married three times; her final marriage to Frank Sinatra was the longest, but it was also the most tumultuous. Her reputation as a strong, sexy screen siren was compounded by the fact that she was consistently more successful than the men in her life.
A lifelong smoker, she lost her battle with emphysema in 1990 at the age of 67. And even though it was more than 30 years after their divorce, it is said that Frank Sinatra was so wracked with grief over her death that his daughter discovered him slumped in a room, crying, and unable to speak.
Ava Lavinia Gardner was born into a poor family of cotton farmers on Christmas Eve, 1922. When she was 18, her brother-in-law displayed a photo of her in the window of his studio; it caught the eye of an MGM executive, and the stunning green-eyed brunette was on her way to stardom.
Ava enjoyed a successful film career, most notably starring in The Sun Also Rises and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She was married three times; her final marriage to Frank Sinatra was the longest, but it was also the most tumultuous. Her reputation as a strong, sexy screen siren was compounded by the fact that she was consistently more successful than the men in her life.
A lifelong smoker, she lost her battle with emphysema in 1990 at the age of 67. And even though it was more than 30 years after their divorce, it is said that Frank Sinatra was so wracked with grief over her death that his daughter discovered him slumped in a room, crying, and unable to speak.
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Two professional killers roll into a sleepy town to kill 'The Swede'. He's expecting them and he welcomes his assassination. An insurance investigator pursues the case and pulls together the threads of The Swede's life, uncovering a convoluted tale of treachery, a heist gone bad, and a femme fatale, the mysterious Kitty Collins...
Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway short story, the first twenty minutes of The Killers is a faithful adaptation, even retaining the author's trademark laconic dialogue. Producer Mark Hellinger paid $36,000 for the story, making it the most expensive short story in Hollywood history at the time. Reportedly, Hellinger called Hemingway up, asking him what the rest of the story might be, to which the author replied, "How the hell do I know?"
Luckily Hellinger brought in an uncredited John Huston to work on the script with Richard Brooks, and together they improvised an excellent and solidly plotted bit of noir storytelling. Hellinger and director Robert Siodmak made the decision to light the movie in what they condsidered to be naturalistic way: four lights instead of forty for the moment the killers roll into town, no fill lights when the actor's eyes became shadowed; even Ava Gardener being sent back to her trailer to remove all make-up, save for a little vaseline applied to her skin for a sheen effect.
Film noir: phantasmagorical style in the name of naturalism. Woody Bredell's cinematography on The Killers is where all the cliches of film noir lighting spring from.
The labyrinthine plot, full of the usual double-crosses and and twists is composed of flash-backs (sometimes flash-backs within flash-backs)and is as grim and fateful in its unfolding as a film noir yarn should be. Burt Lancaster, in his screen debut plays the tough but limited Swede, doomed as the 'lucky stiff' who falls for Gardner's Kitty Collins.
I've only recently finished reading Love Is Nothing, by Lee Server, the biography of Ava Gardner. I picked it up on a whim, knowing little about Gardner or her work, and expected the book (which is a bit of a doorstep at 500-plus pages) to be a bit of work. But it was a joy from start to finish, due to the fascinating life Gardner lived, and the ultra-cool James Ellroy-like style that Server writes with.
It's fair to say that Ava Gardner lived life to the fullest. She was married to Mickey Rooney, jazz musician Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. She was pursued by Howard Hughes, and befriended by Hemingway (who carried around one of her kidney stones as a lucky charm).
The Killers was the first of Gardner's films that really announced her prescence in Hollywood, despite the fact that she has relatively little screen time. But when she is on screen, she is positively luminous; the epitome of the femme fatale.
My favourite line? "Don't ask a dying man to lie himself into hell!"
A quintessential piece of film noir.
Two professional killers roll into a sleepy town to kill 'The Swede'. He's expecting them and he welcomes his assassination. An insurance investigator pursues the case and pulls together the threads of The Swede's life, uncovering a convoluted tale of treachery, a heist gone bad, and a femme fatale, the mysterious Kitty Collins...
Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway short story, the first twenty minutes of The Killers is a faithful adaptation, even retaining the author's trademark laconic dialogue. Producer Mark Hellinger paid $36,000 for the story, making it the most expensive short story in Hollywood history at the time. Reportedly, Hellinger called Hemingway up, asking him what the rest of the story might be, to which the author replied, "How the hell do I know?"
Luckily Hellinger brought in an uncredited John Huston to work on the script with Richard Brooks, and together they improvised an excellent and solidly plotted bit of noir storytelling. Hellinger and director Robert Siodmak made the decision to light the movie in what they condsidered to be naturalistic way: four lights instead of forty for the moment the killers roll into town, no fill lights when the actor's eyes became shadowed; even Ava Gardener being sent back to her trailer to remove all make-up, save for a little vaseline applied to her skin for a sheen effect.
Film noir: phantasmagorical style in the name of naturalism. Woody Bredell's cinematography on The Killers is where all the cliches of film noir lighting spring from.
The labyrinthine plot, full of the usual double-crosses and and twists is composed of flash-backs (sometimes flash-backs within flash-backs)and is as grim and fateful in its unfolding as a film noir yarn should be. Burt Lancaster, in his screen debut plays the tough but limited Swede, doomed as the 'lucky stiff' who falls for Gardner's Kitty Collins.
I've only recently finished reading Love Is Nothing, by Lee Server, the biography of Ava Gardner. I picked it up on a whim, knowing little about Gardner or her work, and expected the book (which is a bit of a doorstep at 500-plus pages) to be a bit of work. But it was a joy from start to finish, due to the fascinating life Gardner lived, and the ultra-cool James Ellroy-like style that Server writes with.
It's fair to say that Ava Gardner lived life to the fullest. She was married to Mickey Rooney, jazz musician Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. She was pursued by Howard Hughes, and befriended by Hemingway (who carried around one of her kidney stones as a lucky charm).
The Killers was the first of Gardner's films that really announced her prescence in Hollywood, despite the fact that she has relatively little screen time. But when she is on screen, she is positively luminous; the epitome of the femme fatale.
My favourite line? "Don't ask a dying man to lie himself into hell!"
A quintessential piece of film noir.
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Some families in Johnston County who tired of holiday shopping found an alternative Friday: a trip to the Ava Gardner museum on East Market Street in Smithfield.
Gardner was born near Smithfield in 1922.
Even though she is one of the most famous American actresses, new generations are visiting the museum to learn about her, said Executive Director Karen Miller Anderson.
The holiday season is particularly busy, Anderson said.
The museum shows a short film about Gardner's life and exhibits photographs, paintings, and costumes.
"It's kind of interesting that she grew up from humble beginnings and she was discovered out of really luck more than anything and had such a marvelous career," said Ben Geller of Clayton, who visited the museum Friday morning.
Some families in Johnston County who tired of holiday shopping found an alternative Friday: a trip to the Ava Gardner museum on East Market Street in Smithfield.
Gardner was born near Smithfield in 1922.
Even though she is one of the most famous American actresses, new generations are visiting the museum to learn about her, said Executive Director Karen Miller Anderson.
The holiday season is particularly busy, Anderson said.
The museum shows a short film about Gardner's life and exhibits photographs, paintings, and costumes.
"It's kind of interesting that she grew up from humble beginnings and she was discovered out of really luck more than anything and had such a marvelous career," said Ben Geller of Clayton, who visited the museum Friday morning.
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One of the screen's most beautiful stars, Ava Gardner, was born on this date in 1922. Ava's first big splash on screen came as Kitty Collins in the 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers. As further proof that it takes not only beauty, but talent to make a splash in Hollywood it should be noted that Ava had been appearing in films, mostly in uncredited roles since 1941.
One of the better screen biographies published in recent memory was Lee Server's 2007 Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" which looks at Gardner's life on-screen and off, doing an especially great job covering Gardner's troubled marriages to Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra and Gardner's hard-living ways after coming to stardom.
Ava Gardner comes along later in screen history than many of the stars I deal with on a regular basis, but she's such a big star that there still are plenty of collectibles featuring her. The problem here is Ava is so popular that I can't keep any in stock for very long!
One of the screen's most beautiful stars, Ava Gardner, was born on this date in 1922. Ava's first big splash on screen came as Kitty Collins in the 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers. As further proof that it takes not only beauty, but talent to make a splash in Hollywood it should be noted that Ava had been appearing in films, mostly in uncredited roles since 1941.
One of the better screen biographies published in recent memory was Lee Server's 2007 Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" which looks at Gardner's life on-screen and off, doing an especially great job covering Gardner's troubled marriages to Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra and Gardner's hard-living ways after coming to stardom.
Ava Gardner comes along later in screen history than many of the stars I deal with on a regular basis, but she's such a big star that there still are plenty of collectibles featuring her. The problem here is Ava is so popular that I can't keep any in stock for very long!
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The Killers[FONT='] starts off with a now legendary opening shot which lets us know instantly that we are in a dark world from which there’s no escape, and forms a terrific preamble to this definitive film noir. Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway short story, the movie follows a zealous insurance agent uncovering the mysterious bumping off of an ex-pugilist. Making amazing use of a series of temporally disjointed flashbacks he uncovers a murky tale of robbery, false love, cold blooded betrayals, double crosses, and murder. Burt Lancaster is astounding as a doomed man – the classic noir anti-hero – walking the path to destruction. Ava Gardner is absolutely sizzling as a sultry, duplicitous, drop dead gorgeous vixen – one of the most unforgettable femme fatales every seen on screen; boy, with those magnetic looks she sure could to lead any man to his grave without so much as battling an eyelid. The Byzantine plot has been given a life of its own courtesy assured direction and sublime screenplay. And as for the visually arresting cinematography – with those smoky vignettes, dimly lit rooms, brilliant use of shadows, oblique camera angles, iconic silhouettes, moody high contrast shots, and a mesmerizing mixture of screeching long takes and paranoid close-ups – it raises the viewing experience to dizzying levels. If this stupendous noir masterpiece doesn’t grab you by the collars, nothing really will.
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The Killers[FONT='] starts off with a now legendary opening shot which lets us know instantly that we are in a dark world from which there’s no escape, and forms a terrific preamble to this definitive film noir. Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway short story, the movie follows a zealous insurance agent uncovering the mysterious bumping off of an ex-pugilist. Making amazing use of a series of temporally disjointed flashbacks he uncovers a murky tale of robbery, false love, cold blooded betrayals, double crosses, and murder. Burt Lancaster is astounding as a doomed man – the classic noir anti-hero – walking the path to destruction. Ava Gardner is absolutely sizzling as a sultry, duplicitous, drop dead gorgeous vixen – one of the most unforgettable femme fatales every seen on screen; boy, with those magnetic looks she sure could to lead any man to his grave without so much as battling an eyelid. The Byzantine plot has been given a life of its own courtesy assured direction and sublime screenplay. And as for the visually arresting cinematography – with those smoky vignettes, dimly lit rooms, brilliant use of shadows, oblique camera angles, iconic silhouettes, moody high contrast shots, and a mesmerizing mixture of screeching long takes and paranoid close-ups – it raises the viewing experience to dizzying levels. If this stupendous noir masterpiece doesn’t grab you by the collars, nothing really will.
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^ Thanks scriptgirl. That's a really pretty set.
I saw One Touch of Venus yesterday and Ava gardner was absolutely gorgeous in. It was perfect casting her as the goddess of love.
I saw One Touch of Venus yesterday and Ava gardner was absolutely gorgeous in. It was perfect casting her as the goddess of love.
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Omigod, that is a RARE PIC! Ziegfield Girl, you are welcome.
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Ngan, that is a great picture. it's really nice to see it in colour too.
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i was a bit shocked when first time i saw it too
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