On Christmas Eve in 1922, an unexpected seventh child arrived in the Gardner household — a spunky tomboy girl who would one day dazzle Hollywood, dance the flamenco barefoot and turn Frank Sinatra’s ...
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 ...