Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well with Ava's own heart. She only feels at home "with my feet in the dirt." And while waiting for her dream prince, she keeps earthy trysts with guitar players, chauffeurs and gypsy dancers. Meanwhile she merely flirts with Millionaire Stevens and a South American playboy (Marius Goring), until at last she finds true but tragic love with an Italian count (Rossano Brazzi...
Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...
Bogart) persuades her to take a screen test in Rome. True to form, untouchable Ava is soon in bright lights from coast to coast...
Bandleader Artie Shaw, 44, whose seven marriages (among his ex-wives: Novelist Kathleen Winsor, Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) all started out well, seemed to be right back where he began. His current bride (No. 7). Actress Doris Dowling, gathered up their 13-month-old son Jonathan and moved in with her sister...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...