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Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing
by Lee Server
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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin May 15, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312312105
ISBN-13: 978-0312312107
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
At the ripe old age of 32, having collected three ex-husbands-Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra-Ava Gardner waxed introspective: "I still believe the most important thing in life is to be loved." Server's (Baby, I Don't Care) deliciously entertaining tome bursts with Hollywood dish and Oscar-worthy dialogue and is written in a crackling style that reads like great pulp. "Love became her terrible habit," he writes, "something hopeless to resist, impossible to get right." A Tobacco Road urchin turned "statue of Venus sprung to succulent life," Gardner ditched her secretarial aspirations and started at MGM in the early '40s as a contract actress earning $50 a week. She became an international star, drawing huge crowds on both sides of the Atlantic. But life wasn't always sweet for the gorgeous star of Show Boat and The Barefoot Contessa; her steamy affair and marriage to Sinatra ranks among the most notorious of Hollywood love stories. Gardner's career, hard drinking and screen-worthy love affairs are all chronicled in Server's page-turner prose, doing justice to one of cinema's most beautiful faces.
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From Booklist
Server follows his superb biography of Robert Mitchum (Baby I Don't Care, 2001) with the life of another midcentury movie icon: Ava Gardner. Gardner's rise from North Carolina tobacco country to Hollywood superstardom began when an MGM talent scout spotted her picture in the window of a photographer's studio. It's a Cinderella story, to be sure, but Server gives us the unexpurgated version, complete with Gardner's Mitchum-like credentials for booze consumption, rugged individualism, and sexual appetite (marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra and affairs with pretty much everyone else). And then there was her beauty--in interviews with dozens of stars, the message is the same: no one ever looked better than Ava Gardner. This is also a story of the studio system, and Gardner was one of its most notable victims, ill-used throughout her career, forced to do bad movies and forced to watch her good movies decimated in the cutting room. Server capably assesses the hits and misses, languishing on those electric moments when the camera caught the "feline sprawl of her exquisite body." A no-holds-barred view of a larger-than-life star. Bill Ott
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" (Hardcover)
Lee Server is one fascinating writer. His exceptionally well written book, "Ava Gardner" is one to be savored! The author has an uncanny ability to capture Gardner in the most humane, respectable and revealing terms, while sharing fascinating behind-the-scenes first hand accounts that serve to show all sides of Gardner's life. I've been enthralled with biographies since the third grade, and this one is beautifully written. There's a lot to learn and discover. Most importantly this book is especially flowing, interesting, and the kind of book you can't put down. As Ava "lived large, long, and precisely as she wanted to" this book truly shares it all. This is an excellent biography about an incredibly interesting woman!
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