Ava Gardner #1

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I really want to see that dress in better detail. Nmyngan-do you have more pics from that session?

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[nmyngan]

I know you have this one also but maybe mine is bigger and u can see it in detail, i have one more but quite small and with watermark

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and thank u for that above one, i love to see color pics, i think Ava had royal beauty, not Grace.

 

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I actually posted taht pic already. WHy do you think Ava had more royal beauty than Grace.

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[nmyngan]

i personally keep thinking that Ava best fit with roles as fabulous Queen (not princess) or something like that because she had gorgeous, high-class beauty, Grace's beauty is contrary way, gentle and soft, but it doesn't mean that is not high-class... i met difficulty to express my opinion here..

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I love her hat in that above pic

 

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[Harumi]

I actually posted taht pic already. WHy do you think Ava had more royal beauty than Grace.

The question isn't addressed to me but I shall put in my $ 0.02 anyway.
They both had regal poise imo. Just not the same brand of 'regal'. I would have casted Ava as Cleopatra, or Nefertiti or some Russian mythological Empress. Grace was more of the English duchess type to me, or Park Avenue princess.
As you could expect, I do rate Ava's beauty infinytely higher that Grace's, and here's why:
Grace to me was the ultimate Haute Bourgoise. There was something matronly and careful controlled about her. She gave off that wholesome, demure and holier-than-thou aura (even though she was nowhere near demure in her private life, but that's another story). In the end, she was neither exciting nor mysterious: her only outstanding feature was her exceptional photogeny (I mean, she did not take a single bad picture, not a single one, that's extraordinary). Unlike many people, I never found her to be the most beautiful anything (actress, princess, woman,...) and to this day I think her beauty was mostly due to flawless styling and careful enhancement of her features with cosmetics. Didn't her own friends admit that without make-up, Grace was rather plain? Just watch Mogambo, it's pretty obvious there she needed the make up to look outstanding. However, as I said, the camera worshiped her, that undeniable.
Ava, one the other hand, was simply a goddess. A flesh and blood goddess of love. Beside the flawlessness of her features, there was a huge amount of character and life in her face and she had that raw sex appeal that drove people mad. Not only was she a world-class beauty but she was alive, if you see was I mean.
Also, she was probably the only Hollywood star who did not have any Hollywood make-over. She was born looking the way she did on silver screen. I have seen pictures of her at 15 and 18 as well as stills of her first test screen and believe me, she was a natural born stunner, the ultimate natural beauty.

 

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Harumi, I agree with all you said about Ava, but Grace was also the woman. I am not a huge fan of blondes and I find only 3 in Hollywood history to be jaw dropping-Carole Lombard, Veronica Lake and Grace. Grace was a natural beauty, period. With or without makeup, she had it. She probably had the most perfect bone structure known to man. I remember truly being shocked at finding at that she was not the pristine princess she looked like. I count that as one of the biggest shocks of my life in terms of character. I find Grace fascinating because she was a truly, truly flawed woman, with many facets.

Ava is just a force of nature. I cannot say enough about her. I wish I could have known her.

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[nmyngan]

she had wild charming look

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