Read facts you never knew about Ava Gardner: Ava’s oldest brother Raymond was killed when a rifle shell exploded when he was only sixteen months old. When she was a teenager she had a big crush on future co-star Clark Gable. When she came to Hollywood the only two books she had read were the …
Birth: December 24, 1922 North Carolina, United States Death: January 25, 1990 London, England Childhood Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on Christmas Eve, 1922 in the small community of Grabtown in North Carolina. Her parents were farmers and she was the youngest of seven children. When Ava was a toddler a fire burned down her …
Although icon Ava Gardner told her story to journalist Peter Evans in 1988, it is being released this month. She may have been legendary, but in the late eighties Ava found herself broke and told Evans: ‘I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels’.