Ava Gardner #1

[Gincat]

I especially love the black and white pics you guys have been posting. She seems to photography best in it (actually we all probably do )

 

[scriptgirl]

Thanks, Gin! And thanks for the karma!

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[nmyngan]

is my great pleasure that you like the pic script, and welcome gincat

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[Festat]

I especially love the black and white pics you guys have been posting. She seems to photography best in it (actually we all probably do )

I quite agree, even though she looks gorgeous in almost every pic.

 

[scriptgirl]

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Mc Clatchy.com

Meet American fashion designer Mary Norton. Her fabulous handbags and shoes are prominently displayed on the arms of celebrities and the display shelves at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman's in New York, Harrods in London, Tsum in Moscow and in her own Mary Norton boutiques in Charleston, S.C., and Los Angeles.

Some of her handbags even bear celebrity names. There's a Reese (Witherspoon), a Swarovski Crystal and mink beauty named Dinah and a fabulous "Ava" clutch named for Gardner herself.


1) Let's talk about your bags. You have one named for Ava Gardner

A: I I have a bag named for Reese Witherspoon and I have a handbag named for Ava Gardner. I am a huge fan of old movies. I think I have probably exhausted all the old movie stars I could find.

 

[scriptgirl]

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[scriptgirl]

Time Magazine

Time Magazine

British designer Stuart Vevers is taking the Spanish luxury brand Loewe by storm—from heritage to handbags

Some years after Ava Gardner first arrived in Spain to shoot the 1951 Albert Lewin film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, she returned to Madrid to find herself in love with a bullfighter and out of love with her husband Frank Sinatra. It was at this time that her friend Ernest Hemingway took her shopping at Loewe. On that warm afternoon, the green-eyed beauty, who was garnering quite a reputation for nights spent dancing on tabletops, emerged from the Gran Vã­¡store looking absolutely a lady, her chic ensemble accessorized with a chocolate brown crocodile handbag.

No surprise, then, that among the first bags offered by Loewe's creative director, Stuart Vevers, who joined the company last January, is a hip remake of that Ava bag, now in white croc punctuated by shiny gold hardware. Add to that the Paloma, a structured bag that manages to be both proper and sexy and is named after Paloma Picasso.

 

[scriptgirl]

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[scriptgirl]

Virginia Pilot

Ava Gardner, I once read, pulled up loose skin on her face with hooks, and stuffed it under a wig. That was her makeshift face- lift. Joan Crawford is said to have smothered her acne with a mortician's layer of makeup. Marilyn Monroe's scalp was reportedly visible to intimates, shining scarlet from the scalding bleach she used. She was also, legend has it, going bald.

America's greatest beauties: They'd never get away with it these days.
Instead, if Ava were still around, she'd appear on D-listed, and we wouldn't ogle her face as much as her hairline. And there would be a caption, angry, as if Gardner had intruded on us, and not we on her: What the hell is wrong with Ava's face?!

 

[scriptgirl]

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InStyle
Instyle

My icons are Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and Rita Hayworth. I love old-Hollywood glamor. I love the classiness. These women got dressed up, and I love that." --Ali Landry


Who are your beauty icons? Joan Collins, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor. I tend to gravitate toward women with dark hair. I like people with strong looks, like Paloma Picasso. The French call certain women jolie !aide, which means "pretty ugly." You can look amazingly beautiful from one angle and at the same time crushingly ugly from another. -Rose McGowan

 

[scriptgirl]

People

COLOR PHOTO: COURTESY WILLIAM GARDNER GRIMES
actress Ava Gardner 1959
"Ava came home about every two years. There was always a lot
going on when she did--people stopping by and the phone ringing
off the hook. She used to bring these big steamer trunks with
these beautiful, glamorous clothes, but she rarely put any of
them on. Mostly she preferred jeans. When she came home, there
was no awkwardness, no 'getting used to.' I call that a good
family member and a good friend."--niece Mary Edna Grantham (far
right), about her aunt Ava Gardner (third from left), with
(clockwise from far left) the actress's niece-in-law Laura
Grimes, sister-in-law Rose Gardner, brother Jack Gardner and
sisters Myra Pearce and Elsie Creech in Smithfield, N.C.

 

[scriptgirl]

Lewin Collection

 

[nmyngan]

medium photo

 

[scriptgirl]

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[crow_watcher]

Virginia Pilot

Ava Gardner, I once read, pulled up loose skin on her face with hooks, and stuffed it under a wig. That was her makeshift face- lift.

That not nice. You think people actually believed that one?

 

[scriptgirl]

Maybe. I know Marlene Dietrich did it.

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[likeadoll]

That sounds painful

 

[scriptgirl]

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