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Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, page 145:
In the breaks during filming of The Bribe, Charles Laughton, one of my costars, used to take me aside and read me passages out of the Bible, then make me read them back with the right cadences and stresses. He was a brilliant classical actor absorbed by his craft and loving it. And he was the only one in all my film years who took the time and went out of his way to try and make an actress out of me.​
Gardner describes her movie Bhowani Junction, set in India in 1947. Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story, pages 213-215:
With the fight of India's soul between the peaceful Congress party of Gandhi and the violent and provocative Communists as background, the character I played, Victoria Jones, returns home to the railway junction of Bhowani Junction... I'm an Anglo-Indian [her character in the movie, that is], a half-breed or cheechee, in the local slang... Bhowani Junction is really the story of how my love for three men mirrored India's struggle... First on my list was fellow Anglo-Indian Patrick Taylor... However, I can't get used to Patrick's anti-Indian feeling, and next I become involved with Ranjit Kasel, a Sikh who longs for a fully independent India. I was always amused that with eight hundred million Indians around, MGM went and employed a ...damn Englishman... in the role. But he did an excellent job, and, after all, they hadn't cast an Anglo-Indian in my part, had they?
[Many more pages describe this film and the filming of it.] ...We filmed in the legendary Shalimar gardens, which were supposed to give a hint of the beauties of paradise and the world to come, and the government also agreed to reopen an exquisite Sikh temple for the first time since the Muslims had taken over Pakistan. The government even allowed some one hundred Sikhs to cross the border and participate in the filmed ceremony in which Victoria and Ranjit were to be received into the Sikh faith. People told us it was probably the first time in history that the temple had been opened to non-Sikhs
 
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