“You can sum up my life in a sentence, honey: She made movies, she made out, and she made a f--king mess of her life. But she never made jam.” Ava Gardner shares the secrets of her three marriages in the memoir that was almost never published. VFArchive
va, that’s it for this evening,” I told her after one long phone session. “You really sound exhausted. I think you should take a few days off. I’ll wrap up your divorce from Mickey, and I have plenty of material on Howard Hughes [the millionaire filmmaker, with whom she had an affair] I can use.”“Maybe four or five days,” I told her optimistically. “We’re getting there. I might even be able to cover some of the Artie Shaw years.”honey,” she corrected me with droll precision.
“Mickey reckoned he made her pregnant when she was 17. He probably did, although Lana always denied it. She had to, of course. She was in an Andy Hardy film with him. He said she had great knockers. First Mick, then Artie ... she beat me to both of them. And to Frank, too. Even so, I liked her. We became good friends.
“He always had his nose in a book. He was mixing with a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals. Most of them were Reds. We’d go to the Russian Consulate. We’d sit down to dinner, and the vodka bottles would appear, and the caviar. We’d drink the vodka down the hatch. In one gulp, you know? That’s when I got a taste for the hard stuff.
a fucking potboiler, he’d called it. He snatched it out of my hands and tore it to shreds when he caught me reading it.
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