Research Catalog

Title

Ava : a biography / by Roland Flamini.

Author

Flamini, Roland.

Publication

New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1983.

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Details

Description

269 p., [4] leaves of plates : ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

In N.Y. for a visit, North Carolina girl Ava had her picture taken by an admiring friend; the photo caught the eye of an MGM talent scout; a screen-test followed. Despite her lack of experience or talent, Ava's "stunning beauty" won her a Hollywood-starlet contract, in true Cinderella fashion. But for years her fame came from off-screen activities: brief marriage to ardent, insecure Mickey Rooney; an oppressive affair with Howard Hughes; living-in-sin (then marriage) with Artie Shaw. After her career took off Ava stepped up her drinking and her love-life--reaching her high point when alternating between a series of Spanish matadors and hard-won husband Frank Sinatra. Later, largely choosing the expatriate idle-life over fading stardom, there'd be one strong performance--in Night of the Iguana--and affairs with John Huston, George C. Scott, and ... Adlai Stevenson. Some readers may be put off by the pop-magazine manner and lack of documentation. But, for movie-gossip fans of the old school: a busy catalogue of clinches and brawls.

Subject

• Gardner, Ava, 1922-1990
• 1900-1999
• Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The train from the east -- Hometown -- Marrying an asset -- Ups and downs -- A tub of ice cream -- Artie -- Turning point -- Doesn't she--don't I? -- Frank -- In Spain -- A battling courtship -- Mrs. Frank Sinatra -- Hemingway heroine -- Lions in the night -- Breakup -- The long goodbye -- The expatriate -- A year in the life -- Portrait--with dogs.

ISBN

0698111230 :

LCCN

^^^82014151^

OCLC

8709087

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library