Movie: Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

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Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney

Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Self (archive footage)

John Huston
John Huston

Self (archive footage)

Nicole Calfan
Nicole Calfan

Self

MIchael Garady
MIchael Garady

Self

Nicole Calfan
Nicole Calfan

Herself

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    A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

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    2017-06-09

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    5.8

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