In reminiscences completed shortly before her death, Ava Gardner reveals that her sizzling personal life contained as much outright glamour, scandal, and passion as her films. Gardner candidly recalls her three stormy marriages, affairs, complex friendship with Howard Hughes, and all the dreams and doubts of a woman who loved life to the hilt. 32 ...
Following his superb biography of Robert Mitchum, "Baby I Don't Care," Server turns to the life of movie icon Ava Gardner. Her rise to fame was a Cinderella story, to be sure, but Server gives readers the unexpurgated version in this no-holds-barred view of a larger-than-life star.
An account of the life and loves of screen legend, Ava Gardner. Spotted by an MGM scout who saw her photograph in a shop window, her career took off when she was hired by Louis B.Mayer after a screen test. With the fame came the men - Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor and Frank Sinatra.
She was one of the most sizzling screen goddesses of the Hollywood Golden Era; whose reputation as a man killer was well-earned and as dangerous as her beauty. He was Major Rich Jefferson, just returned from a brutal tour in Vietnam, scarred by fire and haunted by loss. Turning his back on a spectacular future in aviation, Jefferson takes a desk ...
A biography of the actress Ava Gardner, tracing her life from its smalltown beginnings to eventual world stardom. Also included is a complete listing of her film, television and radio appearances, as well as her musical recordings, and a bibliography of writings on Ava Gardner.
An autobiography by Ava Gardner. It covers her arrival in Hollywood at the age of 18, her quick rise to fame, and her turbulent private life. Her three marriages are described, to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, as is her 20-year friendship with Howard Hughes.
Edition: Sixth Printing By This Publisher.
Binding: Pictorial Illustrated Boards
Publisher: Signet Book / Perma-Bound
Date Published: 1974
Description: Painted Cover Art / Photo's on Back Cover; Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. 128 pages with 24 pages of B&W photos. Novelized, from the screenplay by Mario Puzo. "Los Angeles is devasted and movie history is made. Before your eyes, chasms open, buildings collapse, a mammoth dam crumbles, drowning the city and its people. It's all here-the story of a widely assorted group of human beings and their highly charged personal dramas, linked together by the long-predicted ... read more
Edition: First Edition By This Publisher,
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1974
Description: Painted Cover Art / Photo's on Back Cover; Very Good to Fine. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. 128 pages with 24 pages of B&W photos. Novelized, from the screenplay by Mario Puzo. "Los Angeles is devasted and movie history is made. Before your eyes, chasms open, buildings collapse, a mammoth dam crumbles, drowning the city and its people. It's all here-the story of a widely assorted group of human beings and their highly charged personal dramas, linked together by the long ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Almagated Press, Ltd
Date Published: 1954
Description: b&w Illustrations, Very Good. Magazine. 4 vo. Items about: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner in Mogambo (cover photo), Wendell Corey, Norman Wisdom, Doris Day, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Kay Kendall, Julia Adams, Etc..16 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Date Published: 1954
Description: b/w Photos. Very Good in n/a jacket. Magazine. 4 vo. 16 pgs. Delightful British movie magazine with cover photo of Danny Kaye and Mai Zetterling from Knock On Wood; Life story of Lucille Ball; full page "signed" (not original) photograph of DIrk Bogarde; Lana Turner; Ricardo Montalban; lovely LUX advertisement on back cover featuring Ava Gardner; many others; light pencil underlining on a few pages. read more
Edition: First Edition By This Publisher,
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1974
Description: Painted Cover Art / Photo's on Back Cover; FINE. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. 128 pages with 24 pages of B&W photos. Novelized, from the screenplay by Mario Puzo. "Los Angeles is devasted and movie history is made. Before your eyes, chasms open, buildings collapse, a mammoth dam crumbles, drowning the city and its people. It's all here-the story of a widely assorted group of human beings and their highly charged personal dramas, linked together by the long-predicted ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA. : Book Co. of America, 1965, 1st edition, 1st Printing
Description: Photo Cover. Very Good. ----------paperback, a solid Very Good copy, 169 pages, Nuetzel looks at---Marilyn Monroe; Jean Harlow; Virginia Rappe; Errol Flynn; Joe Di Maggio; Lana Turner; Tyrone Power; Fatty Arbuckle; Ida Lupino; Thelma Todd; Simone Signoret; Lex Barker; Frank Sinatra; Artie Shaw; Ava Gardner; Clark Gable; tony Curtis; Marlon Brando; Jack Lemmon; Fernando Lamas; James Dean; Joan Crawford and many others, NUETZEL also wrote as: Mark Allen, Blake Andrews, Albert Augustus, Jr, Jack ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Robinson, Ltd.
Date Published: 1949
Description: 75 pages, Near Fine no jacket as issued. Includes 15 color photos of actors such as G. Peck, Janet Leigh, P. Lawford. E. Taylor. read more
Edition: (Vol. XVI, No. 6)
Binding: Periodical
Publisher: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good+ NOISBN. [nice copy, minimal wear at edges/corners, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Articles re: Ava Gardner (career survey with filmography); "Movie Pre-History"; "Swordplay on the Screen" (by Rudy Behlmer). read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: N.Y. : Allan Stearn, 1955
Description: Near Fine/In Wrappers. Beautiful cover photo of Ava Gardner. The issue includes "The Real Ava Gardner-Uncensored! " Also in this issue stories about Korean Marines, Mlle. Gobette, micro-midget racing, Earthquake, Sing Song Prison and Sherry Winters. Copy in near-fine condition. read more
Edition: First Edition By This Publisher
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Global Editora (#1030).
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 134 pages with 14 pages of B&W photos. (Spanish language version! ) "Los Angeles is devasted and movie history is made. Before your eyes, chasms open, buildings collapse, a mammoth dam crumbles, drowning the city and its people. It's all here-the story of a widely assorted group of human beings and their highly charged personal dramas, linked together by the long-predicted catastrophe of the next California quake. Plus-an exclusive, inside ... read more
Description: Very Good. 9681322401 Soft Cover features 309 clean, bright pages. Spine is tight. Covers clean with light shelf wear. Text is in SPANISH. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1s
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light tone, lt wear; DJ light wear. Crisp Chayefsky's 1st original screenplay, for which he received an Oscar nomination. "It has been said that this film profiles the career of either Ava Gardner or Marilyn Monroe, yet Chayefsky (who nabbed an Oscar nomination for his screenplay) has always insisted that he was really drawing from the goddess Success as profiled by American philosopher William James. " The motion picture starred Kim Stanley and Lloyd ... read more
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