Ava Gardner #1

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Post 2028 - Ava was a siren. Only a few can match her charm and physical beauty. Script, I can't get over that pic! Thanks.

 

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Who can match her charm and beauty as you think?

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The only person that can compare is Angelina Jolie.

 

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Associated Press
Kirk Douglas emerges from behind a black curtain and walks purposefully, if a bit unsteadily, to center stage.
"When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood," he says, smiling to a largely empty theatre at a rehearsal of his new one-man show "Before I Forget." The 92-year-old actor emphasizes each syllable as clearly and firmly as he can through the speech impediment caused by a 1996 stroke.
"I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen! They think I'm going to say something important."
Douglas waves both hands as if scoffing at the concept, then takes a seat in a black leather easy chair.
Plenty of people are willing to listen. The four scheduled performances of Douglas' show, beginning this Friday, are sold out. The site: Kirk Douglas Theatre, opened by the Center Theatre group in 2004 after a $2.5 million donation from Douglas and his wife Anne.
"You know, I never wanted to be a movie actor," Douglas says from the chair after a sip of water. "My goal in life was to be a star on the stage. Now I know how to do it. Build your own theatre."
Douglas, who has appeared in over 75 movies — "Too many. Some good, some bad," he offers — developed the one-man show after writing nine books, including "My Stroke of Luck" and his most recent, "Let's Face It."
"But I found it was easier to write a one-man show than to present it," he said in an interview in the theatre lobby. "Because as you know, I have an impediment in my speech because of my stroke. But that's a challenge for me, and I have always welcomed a challenge."
The nearly 1 1/2-hour performance features clips from Douglas' movies and public appearances, including his 1996 appearance at the Academy Awards, where he received an honorary Oscar.
Douglas talks understatedly about his famous family and friends like the briefly-married Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. He remembers one night when they were all staying at the same New York hotel and Gardner came knocking on his door, sobbing.
"She had just had a violent argument with Frank, who seized a gun and he threatened to shoot himself," said Douglas, who also recounted the incident in his latest book. "I calmed Eva down and she went back." (Biographer Lee Server also wrote that Sinatra had twice become suicidal during his relationship with the actress.)

 

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Scarlett Johansson, star of the upcoming action flick 'The Amazon Warrior', opened up to the Daily Telegraph about her best attributes, her newly dark hair, and her anxieties over playing a gladiatrix in the year 200BC. Some highlights of the interview are below.
On who inspires her fashion - and her shapely gams: "I guess Rita Hayworth or Ava Gardner. Most probably Rita Hayworth. Oh, those legs of hers. My legs? They're not bad. They get me places."

 

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Variety
Robert Haggiag, an American based in Rome who produced, co-produced and otherwise bankrolled more than 50 films, including Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Oscar-winner "The Barefoot Contessa," died March 1 in Rome. He was 95.

Born in Tripoli, Libya, Haggiag started making movies in Italy in the 1940s and during the 1950s partnered with Italian producer Angelo Rizzoli in Rome, where he founded Dear Films. which became an Italian distributor of 20th Century Fox and United Artists films.
Dividing his time between the United States and Italy, the reserved but high-flying Haggiag contributed to shepherding a slew of star- studded pics, including John Huston's 1954 "Beat The Devil," toplining Humphrey Bogart, Sahara-set "Legend of the Lost," which in 1957 paired John Wayne and Sophia Loren, and Anthony Mann's 1961 epic "El Cid," in which Loren played opposite Charlton Heston.
In 1968, capturing that year's experimental mood, Haggiag personally produced the sexy spoof "Candy," based on scribe Terry Southern's "Candide" sendup, about a girl who descends from outer space to wreak sexual havoc on earth.
"We're going to have the opening in the Sistine Chapel. It's a secret, because the Pope hasn't given his approval yet," Haggiag joked that year to "The New York Times," in a rare interview.
A prolific producer, Haggiag gradually retreated from moviemaking in the 1970s when a freeze on government subsidies combined with political turmoil made it tough going for international productions in Italy.
He had previously also mounted several important local productions such as Pietro Germi's sophisticated comedy "Signore e Signori" ("The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians") which scooped the 1965 Cannes fest Grand Prize and won him a best producer David di Donatello, Italy's top industry honor.
Mankiewicz's Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner-starrer "The Barefoot Contessa," co-produced by Haggiag with Rizzoli, and winner of a best supporting actor nod in 1954 for Edmond O'Brien, was shot in Rome's famed Cinecitta Studios, which remained close to his heart.
When the Italian government partly privatized Cinecitta in 1998, Haggiag's Dear Films quietly snapped up an 11% stake in the studios and he became a board member.
In the latter part of his life Haggiag kept a hand in showbiz by also exec-producing Ken Russel's "Lady Chatterly" BBC telepic in 1993, among other projects. In 2006 he made his first foray into legit by co-producing Christopher Hampton's play "Embers," toplining Jeremy Irons, on the London stage.
Haggiag is survived by his wife Mirella, and sons Simone, a producer, Jacopo and Michael, a producer. -- Nick Vivarelli

 

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Coral Stars
Anyway, one icon of the era was Ava Gardner. Admittedly, I knew nothing about her until I did research for this post (other than her name & the fact that she was a hollywood all-time-great actress - yes, I am incredibly uncultured when it comes to films… and most things really.) but here we are anyway.

A very very mini bio…

Ava Gardner was born in North Carolina, America, in 1921. Her film career began in 1941 after her brother-in-law (who was a photographer) hung her portrait in his studio where it apparently gained a fair bit of attention (she was a green-eyed stunning brunette according to wiki). Eventually, he sent it off to MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Further reading: Miss Vintage, Wikipedia, IMDB.


A few favourites and classic photographs of Ava Gardner! I’m rather lacking in comments to make today. Probably because I feel a bit ill-informed!

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6cd8Jm78mM&feature=related

 

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N, is that an actual colored pic or has it been colorized?

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i really don't know

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It seems to me it is colorized. I have only ever seen that pic in black and white.

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me too but it's really good colorization

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