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Good for you. She was an amazing, amazing woman.
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Flamini, page 63:
Flamini, page 63:
[1943] ...Ava received news of Mollie Gardner's [her mother] death following a long fight against breast cancer... The paper mentioned that Ava was to attend her mother's burial, and when the funeral party arrived at the small Baptist graveyard a sizable crowd was waiting.
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 1: I was born Ava Lavinia Gardner on Christmas Eve 1922 in Grabtown [near Smithfield], North Carolina... how about having to live through childhood with my birthday and Christmas Day being just about simultaneous celebrations? That meant I'd like as not be fobbed off with one present instead of two I just knew I deserved. And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person, Jesus Christ, whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, pages 8-9: ...[COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]music[/COLOR][/COLOR], especially movement to music, became a great passion with me. One of my greatest joys was the Holy Rollers [Pentecostals]. My parents' sedate form of religion didn't appeal to me, but Elva Mae, the sweet little black girl who helped Mama out in the kitchen, used to take me to the services at the Tee's Chapel. And I just fell in love with the singing and the preaching and all the rest of that good old-time religion.
It would start with everyone quiet and reverent. The preacher would warm up with a few quotes from the Bible. Then, out of nowhere, he'd catch fire and give everyone hell. I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a b*tch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it. "All of you down there in this congregation is sinners," the preacher would thunder. "And no sinner's going to escape hellfire and damnation. No sirree, no sirree." [More about this.] ...Though it didn't appeal to me, my parents' religion must have helped them when it came to the real tragedies of their lives. But even religion was not enough to help Mama get over something that happened twelve years before I was born, something that I'm sure left its tiny mark on me. [The first-born son of Ava's parents was killed when he got into the dynamite caps stored in the house - dynamite that was used to clear rocks and tree stumps on the farm.]
It would start with everyone quiet and reverent. The preacher would warm up with a few quotes from the Bible. Then, out of nowhere, he'd catch fire and give everyone hell. I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a b*tch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it. "All of you down there in this congregation is sinners," the preacher would thunder. "And no sinner's going to escape hellfire and damnation. No sirree, no sirree." [More about this.] ...Though it didn't appeal to me, my parents' religion must have helped them when it came to the real tragedies of their lives. But even religion was not enough to help Mama get over something that happened twelve years before I was born, something that I'm sure left its tiny mark on me. [The first-born son of Ava's parents was killed when he got into the dynamite caps stored in the house - dynamite that was used to clear rocks and tree stumps on the farm.]
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Ava Gardner dated Howard Hughes (this was after she had divorced Mickey Rooney). Higham, page 48:
Ava Gardner dated Howard Hughes (this was after she had divorced Mickey Rooney). Higham, page 48:
"But when she began to lose her interest in Hughes sexually. It was a familiar pattern with her. In the first place, she wasn't in love with him at all... Her essential remoteness, that 'hollow feeling' at the heart of the relationship, drove Hughes crazy, just as it did Mickey. They began to have the most terrible quarrels. He gave her a brand-new Cadillac, then took it back when she broke a date with him." Noah Dietrich says: "He had her watched 24 hours a day by Mormon bodyguards, a night man and a day man. He always felt Mormons were more reliable than anybody else. For a while, she behaved. But soon she became restless..."
While dating Howard Hughes, Ava Gardner had an affair with Philip Yordan. Higham, page 51:
...a tough Jewish writer called Philip Yordan. Today a millionaire wheeler-dealer in film properties, for many years one of the highest paid Hollywood writer-producers, in 1945 Yordan was a poverty-stricken beginner.
Ava Gardner's friend Arlene Dahl describes Ava. From: Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 112: One game [Ava] did not play was the couch game. She never had to and she never did. She was not promiscuous. She was true--true blue. When she was married, she was married. She didn't fool around; there was never any scandal about her. She was exactly the opposite of the roles she played. She looked like a femme fatale and she wasn't. She was really sweet and dear and lovely.
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Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 115:
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 115:
Before shooting could begin [on One Touch of Venus], however, a statue of me as the Anatolian Venus had to be created. Sparing no expense, Universal commissioned sculptor Joseph Nicolosi to do the job. And that's where the crises began. Most Venuses I'd seen in art books were nude or had a magically clinging drape low on the hips, and Mrs. Nicolosi clearly had the same idea... Nude? Me? Not even MGM had that in their contract. Bare my breasts? What would Mama have thought? Jesus, I had a hard enough time with two husbands and one boyfriend. No one darted into bed faster than I did. I had a fine time with sex, but the thought of exposing my body was something else again. I guess my mother's puritanical zeal had left some marks on me after all. [She eventually posed topless for the sculptor.]
Higham, pages 76-77: Ava became pregnant [by actor Howard Duff, in 1948] and decided to have an abortion. She went to... doctor in Beverly Hills... He botched the job, not completely removing the fetus. The aftermath was appalling. Her womb was so badly cut that it probably would have been very difficult to have any children. The event so traumatized her that she never fully recovered from the shock, and never had a child.
Higham, pages 125-128 describes details about Ava Gardner filming Ride, Vaquero on location in Kanab, Utah with co-star Robert Taylor. Flamini, page 112: For some time [Ava Gardner] had been pursued by the prestigious, much-loved Charles Feldman, who specialized in women clients. Feldman was top-drawer Hollywood, a good-looking man whom his friends called "the Jewish Clark Gable." His wife, Jean Howard, was the only woman over whom L. B. Mayer as known to have lost his head. When Jean married Feldman, L.B. attempted to blackball all his clients and tried to get other studios to do the same. By then Feldman represented such a large slice of Metro's talent that had the order been obeyed the studio would have ground to a standstill.
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Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, pages 125-127:
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, pages 125-127:
We [Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner] became lovers forever--eternally. Big words, I know. But I truly felt that no matter what happened we would always be in love... one or two people tried to warn me about him. Lana Turner was one. She had been one of Artie Shaw's wives, and she'd had a very serious affair with Frank a couple of years before me... Though he was shuttling backward and forward between her bedroom and Nancy's [Frank's wife], trying to equate obedience to Catholic doctrines with indulgence in his natural inclinations, divorce plans were all set up and [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]wedding [COLOR=blue !important]plans[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] had been made.
Then Lana woke up one morning, picked up the newspaper, and red that Frank had changed his mind and gone back to Nancy for good. It was the old Catholic arrangement: wife and family come first...
...I told Lana gently that Frank and I were in love, and that this time he really was going to leave Nancy for good. If I'm in love, I want to get married: that's my fundamentalist Protestant background. If he wanted me, there could be no compromise on that issue.
...Now, nearly forty years later, I can be fairly rational about this, even smile ruefully at all the fuss. Then, however, I was deeply hurt and upset. All I had done was fall in love. It was, unfortunately, with a married Catholic man...
[page 127] In the next few weeks [after Nancy Sinatra announced that she and Frank were formally separated, and Ava's affair with Frank Sinatra became more public] I was receiving scores of letters accusing me of being a scarlet woman, a home wrecker, and worse. One correspondent addressed me as "b*tch-Jezebel-Gardner," the Legion of Decency threatened to ban my movies, and Catholic priests found the time to write me accusatory letters. I even read where the Sisters of Mary and Joseph asked their students at St. Paul the Apostle School in Los Angeles to pray for Frank's poor wife. I didn't understand then and, frankly, I still don't understand now why there should be this prurient mass hysteria about a male and female climbing into bed and doing what comes naturally. It's blessed in weddings, celebrated in honeymoons, but out of wedlock it's condemned as the worst of sins.
Then Lana woke up one morning, picked up the newspaper, and red that Frank had changed his mind and gone back to Nancy for good. It was the old Catholic arrangement: wife and family come first...
...I told Lana gently that Frank and I were in love, and that this time he really was going to leave Nancy for good. If I'm in love, I want to get married: that's my fundamentalist Protestant background. If he wanted me, there could be no compromise on that issue.
...Now, nearly forty years later, I can be fairly rational about this, even smile ruefully at all the fuss. Then, however, I was deeply hurt and upset. All I had done was fall in love. It was, unfortunately, with a married Catholic man...
[page 127] In the next few weeks [after Nancy Sinatra announced that she and Frank were formally separated, and Ava's affair with Frank Sinatra became more public] I was receiving scores of letters accusing me of being a scarlet woman, a home wrecker, and worse. One correspondent addressed me as "b*tch-Jezebel-Gardner," the Legion of Decency threatened to ban my movies, and Catholic priests found the time to write me accusatory letters. I even read where the Sisters of Mary and Joseph asked their students at St. Paul the Apostle School in Los Angeles to pray for Frank's poor wife. I didn't understand then and, frankly, I still don't understand now why there should be this prurient mass hysteria about a male and female climbing into bed and doing what comes naturally. It's blessed in weddings, celebrated in honeymoons, but out of wedlock it's condemned as the worst of sins.
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Frank Sinatra took Ava go his parent's home. Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 151:
Frank Sinatra took Ava go his parent's home. Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 151:
Every room had a cross or a resident Jesus Christ; there seemed to be a cross on everything, because Dolly [Frank's mother] was deeply into the Catholic faith. And of course Dolly had to tell me all about Frank...
While married to Frank Sanatra, Ava Gardner's career was in high gear. At least twice she became pregnant and had an abortion because she didn't want having a baby to interrupt her career. Throughout her life Gardner often said she wanted to have children, but although she was married three times and was pregnant multiple times, she never had children because she terminated all of her pregnancies by getting an abortion. Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, pages 184-185: I felt the time just wasn't right for me to have a child. With that decision made, the most agonizing I'd ever had to face, I went to see my director. Jack Ford [John Ford, a Catholic] tried desperately to talk me out of it.
"Ava," he said, "you're married to a Catholic, and this is going to hurt Frank tremendously when he finds out about it."
"He isn't going to find out about it, and if he does, it's my decision." "Ava, you're giving yourself too hard a time. I'll protect you if the fact that you're having a baby starts to show. I'll arrange the scenes, I'll arrange the shots. We'll wrap your part up as quickly as we can. Nothing will show. Please go ahead and have the child." [She had an abortion, and later another.]
"Ava," he said, "you're married to a Catholic, and this is going to hurt Frank tremendously when he finds out about it."
"He isn't going to find out about it, and if he does, it's my decision." "Ava, you're giving yourself too hard a time. I'll protect you if the fact that you're having a baby starts to show. I'll arrange the scenes, I'll arrange the shots. We'll wrap your part up as quickly as we can. Nothing will show. Please go ahead and have the child." [She had an abortion, and later another.]
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