LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Ava Gardner: New York
built 221 days ago
Like Graves's piece, Lee Server's enthralling new biography, "Ava Gardner," could similarly be characterized as an extended toast to her. For no matter how objective Server tries to appear in detailing the highs and lows of her 67 years - the three marriages, the numerous affairs, the binges, the nightlong cruising of low-life byways and bordellos, the mainly poor movies she was in - he cannot really hide his essential fondness for her. It is the kind of affection virtually every one of the more than 100 people he interviewed felt and spoke of with enthusiasm, the kind a reader too will find hard to resist.
Source:
It is regrettable that the consensus view of Ava Gardner still ignores the evidence of her movies, and is based on an unquestioning acceptance of inaccurate media clichés. Fortunately DVDs last longer than newspapers, and with the passage of time new generations will grow up unaware of media orthodoxy. Then at last there will be a re-assessment of Ava Gardner and her work.
Source:
Gardner, who by age eighteen had become a stunning, green-eyed brunette, was visiting her sister Beatrice in New York in 1941 when Beatrice's husband Larry, a professional photographer, offered to take her portrait. He was so pleased with the results that he displayed the finished product in the front window of his Fifth Avenue studio.
Source:
Unlike many actresses, opportunity literally came knocking at Ava Gardner’s door. When she was 16 years old, Ava would visit New York and her sister and brother in law. Her brother in law was a photographer and recognized Ava’s potential; he convinced her into posing for some photos of which he would display in his shop.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
New York