By xoxoxoe, BLOGCRITICS.ORG
Published 10:00 pm, Saturday, July 27, 2013
"I either write the book or sell the jewels, and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels."
Ava Gardner, in 1988, after suffering two strokes a few years previously, felt pressured to come up with some money, somehow, to cover her expenses. She could no longer act, as the strokes had left her fabulous face paralyzed on one side, and her right arm useless. She toyed with the idea of an autobiography, and friendDirk Bogarde suggested journalist Peter Evans. Ava Gardner, in her heyday
Evans enthusiastically took on the task of ghostwriting Gardner's memoirs, and things moved along, if not swimmingly, at least steadily, for several months - until Gardner learned, most likely from ex-husband number three Frank Sinatra, that he had sued Evans and the BBC many years before for writing about his association with the Mafia. The collaboration came to an abrupt halt. After Evans's death in 2012, his publisher, with the permission of Gardner's estate, decided to publish the notes for the book as Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
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Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-Ava-Gardner-The-Secret-4692075.php
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