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The wickedly candid New York Times bestesller that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime—“the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and ’50s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. But this riveting account of her storied life, including her marriage to Frank Sinatra, and career had to wait for publication until after her death—because Gardner feared it was too revealing.
“I either write the book or sell the jewels,” Gardner told coauthor Peter Evans, “and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” The legendary actress serves up plenty of gems in these pages, reflecting with delicious humor and cutting wit on a life that took her from rural North Carolina to the heights of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Tell-all stories abound, especially when Gardner divulges on her three husbands: Mickey Rooney, a serial cheater so notorious that even his mother warned Gardner about him; bandleader Artie Shaw, whom Ava calls “a dominating son of a bitch…always putting me down;” and Frank Sinatra (“We were fighting all the time. Fighting and boozing. It was madness. But he was good in the feathers”).
“Her story is a raw-nerved revelation. . . . A vivid portrait” (Chicago Tribune). Witty, penetrating, unique in its voice, it is impossible to put down—“A complete delight” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
- Sales Rank: #178516 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-02
- Released on: 2013-07-02
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*Starred Review* In 1988, only two years before her death, legendary actress Ava Gardner, then living in semiseclusion in London and running low on money, asked the late Evans to ghostwrite her autobiography: “I either write the book or sell the jewels, and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” Gardner didn’t want to do a sugarcoated memoir, preferring to tell it straight, the real story of the marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, the multiple affairs (with Howard Hughes, among many others), the hardscrabble childhood in North Carolina tobacco country. But as the two met and Gardner began speaking of her life, it became clear to Evans that the actress was more reticent about telling it straight than she pretended to be. The conversations were uninhibited, to be sure, but Gardner balked at the finished chapters (“I sound too fucking vulgar”), leading ultimately to the project being abandoned. Shortly before his own death in 2012, Evans wrote this memoir of a memoir-in-progress, transcribing Gardner’s recollections and providing connective passages setting the scenes. What emerges doesn’t cover the sweep of the movie icon’s remarkable life as fully as Lee Server’s Ava Gardner (2006), but it does capture Gardner’s indelible voice—vulgar, yes, but humanly so as well as unfailingly witty and movingly melancholic. Finally, 25 years after the fact, we have at least a facsimile of the unbuttoned version Gardner claimed she wanted to tell. Movie buffs will be as transfixed by the actress’ own words as they have always been by her drop-dead beauty on the screen. --Bill Ott
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''I read Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations in a delirious gulp. It is absolutely terrific. I couldn't put it down. Gardner comes across as a flamboyant but tragic figure who always spoke the truth no matter how painful. And the way writer Peter Evans has shaped their conversations is truly remarkable.''--Patricia Bosworth, author of Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
''Jaw-dropping anecdotes about film legends and the studio system in its heyday make this an irresistible read. . . . Even seasoned fans will learn fresh tidbits about ex-husbands Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, as well as her tumultuous relationships with Howard Hughes and George C. Scott. . . . Gardner is funny and frank, and Evans's diligence makes the book not only one of the more revealing celebrity autobiographies published recently, but a candid glimpse into the world of a ghostwriter, star handler, and late-night confidante.'' --Publishers Weekly)
''An unvarnished account of [Gardner's] marriages and affairs in golden-age Hollywood. . . . Give[s] a vivid sense of Gardner's salty, no-BS personality. . . . Juicy. '' --Kirkus Reviews
''A complete delight. . . . [Gardner's] quotes exude the musk of a woman supremely indifferent to the social proprieties and expectations of her era. . . . Hers is the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker.'' --Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author
Peter Evans was a columnist and foreign correspondent with the Daily Express (UK), and wrote for the Los Angeles Times and Vogue, as well as every major newspaper in Britain. His books include Peter Sellers: The Man Behind the Mask and Nemesis. He died in 2012.
Ava Gardner was born in Grabtown, North Carolina, in 1922. Her films include The Killers, Showboat, Mogambo, The Barefoot Contessa, The Sun Also Rises, and On the Beach. She died in London in 1990.
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90 of 94 people found the following review helpful.
A Tell All that Tells ALL!
By D_shrink
I found the book thoroughly enjoyable, with the only fault being that the author didn't get to complete it, as the actress stopped cooperating, but I will leave that for the end. Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on Christmas Eve of 1922 in Smithfield, NC and ended being buried there 67 years later in Sunset Memorial Park next to her brothers, her father, Jonas, 1878-1938, and her mother, Mary Elizabeth, "Mollie", 1883-1943. Her actual date of death was January 25,1990. She swore voraciously and smoked 3 packs a day for many years suffering from emphysema, pneumonia, and had several strokes. But her adult life was dominated by her looks and extreme fondness for unadulterated sex.
Ava claims she had a happy childhood, the youngest child born into a working class farm family. She claims to have been a tomboy and loved her "Daddy" best of all, he always just called her "daughter" which she loved, as it made her feel as though she belonged to someone. In Ava's own words, "You can sum up my life in a sentence, honey: she made movies, she made out, and she made a f****** mess of her life." [p2] "Her affairs had brought her final husband, Frank Sinatra, to the brink of suicide, taken her lover Howard Hughes beyond the edge of madness, and provoked George C. Scott to bouts of homicidal rage." [p7]
Ava was a 19yo virgin when she married Mickey Rooney on 1/10/1942 and a very experienced lover by the time she divorced him over his supposed numerous affairs on 5/23/1943; a date she says was easy to remember as it was the same day her mother died. She was tired of Mickey's antics from early on in their marriage, but stayed as long as she did, since the sex was very good. "[H]e was athletic in the sack and I was pretty verbal, and we were both very, very loud!" [p154] She continued to see Mickey while separated from him prior to their divorce, while carrying on with Howard Hughes at the same time. She later said, "It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore." [p156] Shortly thereafter while the author questions her about the accuracy of some of the events she talks about, she says "It's my f****** life. I'll remember it the way I want to remember it." [p161]
Her love affairs and assignations were too numerous to list all, but in addition to her husbands, there were numerous leading men actors, several Spanish bullfighters, directors, writers [including Ernest Hemingway], and even 4 NYC garbage collectors on her way back from a party she found boring. ;-) Now that story was funny.
After Mickey and her affair with Howard Hughes she married big band leader, Artie Shaw, whose real name was Jacob Ben-Yitzhak Artshawsky. BTW, her friendship with Howard hughes went on for some 20 years while married to Shaw and later Frank Sinatra. Artie like Mickey liked a little variety in his sex life and Ava couldn't stand that although she seemed to have matched them tit for tat. After the marriage to Shaw which lasted from 1945-46 and after which he quickly married novelist Kathleen Winsor, she later married Frank on 11/7/1951, a mere seven days after he divorced his wife Nancy; after numerous spats she divorced him in 1957. After which he married Mia Farrow.
Getting back to why the book was never finished her whole life; it seems that Frank Sinatra had sued the author some years before and hated him. He therefore paid Ava the amount of her guarantee not to publish the book in her and his lifetime. she quickly ended the relationship with the author and died a few years later. And if you think I have told her whole story, I guarantee you there is much more left unsaid. The neat part about this book is the author telling how he got her to reveal as much as she did. This is probably a book you will either like for what it is or you will hate for what it is. As someone else once said, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!"
69 of 72 people found the following review helpful.
A UNIQUE BIOGRAPHY
By Lilly Lavender
This isn't just a biography this is an insight into how a ghost writer interacts with his subject and likewise how the subject interacts with the ghost writer. You soon realise it's no easy ride for Peter Evans when Ava Gardner is appalled at her own story and tries to persuade Evans to smooth over the rough edges or leave them out altogether. But he is having none of it. The Secret Conversations is a beautifully written book that I couldn't put down. I felt sad as I was finishing reading the final chapter - I really felt I had got to know Peter Evans and Ava Gardner so well I didn't want to let them go.
34 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Marvelous insight into the life of a Hollywood goddess
By Kujifanya Jina
The aborted autobiography of Ava Gardner left the author with hours of tape and notes from daily conversations with the screen goddess after her stroke left her without a career. This quasi-"Sunset Boulevard" tome takes us into the memories and regrets of Ava Gardner's life. Insightful, endlessly fascinating and ultimately sad, we learn that Gardner never stopped loving Frank Sinatra, but never stopped asserting her independence and autonomy as a woman -- and an actress -- to her own detriment. She dishes on first husband Mickey Rooney, telling tales that have never been heard before of Rooney's womanizing, gambling and effervescent personality. She outs Howard Hughes as a racist, Artie Shaw as a spouse abuser, Sinatra as an emotional wreck and George C. Scott as a violent spouse-beater. She also heaps tons of criticism on herself for her failures and faults. This is not to be missed.
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