Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
Autor Peter Evans, Ava Gardneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2014
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and '50s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. But this riveting account of her storied life, including her marriage to Frank Sinatra, and career had to wait for publication until after her death--because Gardner feared it was too revealing.
"I either write the book or sell the jewels," Gardner told coauthor Peter Evans, "and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels." The legendary actress serves up plenty of gems in these pages, reflecting with delicious humor and cutting wit on a life that took her from rural North Carolina to the heights of Hollywood's Golden Age. Tell-all stories abound, especially when Gardner divulges on her three husbands: Mickey Rooney, a serial cheater so notorious that even his mother warned Gardner about him; bandleader Artie Shaw, whom Ava calls "a dominating son of a bitch...always putting me down;" and Frank Sinatra ("We were fighting all the time. Fighting and boozing. It was madness. But he was good in the feathers").
"Her story is a raw-nerved revelation. . . . A vivid portrait" ("Chicago Tribune"). Witty, penetrating, unique in its voice, it is impossible to put down--"A complete delight" ("Philadelphia Inquirer").
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781451627701
ISBN-10: 145162770X
Pagini: 293
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 145162770X
Pagini: 293
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Notă biografică
Peter Evans was a columnist and foreign correspondent with the Daily Express (UK), and wrote for the Los Angeles Times and Vogue, as well as every major newspaper in Britain. His books include Peter Sellers: The Man Behind the Mask and Nemesis. He died in 2012.