Eats Like a Pig

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

I eat like a pig, but I don’t put on weight. I could give up drinking, but never smoking… I enjoy it thoroughly.

- Ava Gardner

Source: Ava Gardner Finds Happiness Elusive, The Miami News, May 20 1957, Page 3
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Frank & Ava Word Scramble

Friday, July 15th, 2011

What I’d Really Like To Do Is…

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

I’ve always been cast as the femme fatale. That isn’t me at all. What I’d really like to do is a love story.

Source: Ava Gardner Finds Happiness Elusive, The Miami News, May 20 1957, Page 3
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The Golden 10

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

A couple months after releasing a list of the Golden Dozen, the 12 most powerful actors in Hollywood, newspapers compiled a list of the most powerful female actresses, but they could only come up with 10.

(L-R) Ingrid Bergman, Doris Day, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Susan Hayward, Deborah Kerr, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor

Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec 1 1958, Page 19