Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing"Macmillan, 2006 M04 18 - 551 pages "Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" is the first complete biography of this extraordinary figure, the barefoot farm girl from North Carolina who became a Hollywood goddess. Prodigiously researched, the book is filled with fresh insight from hundreds of exclusive interviews with Ava's colleagues, close friends, and lovers. It is a vivid re-creation of a life of incredible glamour, hedonism, and self-destruction, a life painted in bold colors on a spectacular public canvas: big-studio Hollywood in the forties and fifties; MGM musicals and the birth of film noir; exotic locations from Pakistan, East Africa, and tropical Mexico to Sinatra's Las Vegas, the Rome of La Dolce Vita, and the Spain of fearless bullfighters and murderous dictators.". |
Contents
Ava | 3 |
Goddess Country | 11 |
Zombies at the Beachcomber | 44 |
Femme Fatale | 101 |
Venus in Furs | 134 |
Frankie Goes to Hollywood | 171 |
Torrid Was Your Blood | 190 |
Tempt Me to Madness | 236 |
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