Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

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Ava Gardner

Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra

Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney

Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Ernest Hemingway

Self (archive footage)