Ava Gardner
A country girl from Grabtown, N.C., Ava Gardner arrived in Hollywood in 1941 knowing she couldn't act but, gorgeous as she was, she never had to let that slow her down. Her beauty — which reportedly intimidated Elizabeth Taylor — won her not just film roles and studio-paid acting lessons, but the attentions of all-American boy Mickey Rooney, whom she married and divorced before she turned 21. She had a similarly brief union with bandleader Artie Shaw — she called those two her "starter husbands" — before a tempestuous, headline-making marriage to Frank Sinatra. At four years in duration, that one qualified as a virtual marathon.
Then there were the movies: One Touch of Venus, The Night of the Iguana, Show Boat, The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Barefoot Contessa, Mogambo, On the Beach, The Sun Also Rises and a few dozen others in a career that spanned four decades before it was cut short by a debilitating stroke that left part of her face slack. All of which qualifies as a mother lode of promising material for the late journalist Peter Evans to mine in his posthumously published and, sadly, dead-on-arrival Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations.
"Secret" because after agreeing to co-write her memoirs with Evans in 1988, and giving him hours of interviews, she got cold feet, stopped collaborating, and — wisely, based on the result — withdrew permission to publish, a deal theoretically sealed by her death in 1990, at the age of 67.
艾娃·加德納
艾娃·加德納
秘密對話
彼得·埃文斯,艾娃·加德納
艾娃·加德納,一位來自北卡羅來納州格拉布鎮的鄉村姑娘,於1941年來到好萊塢,她知道自己不會演戲,但儘管她容光煥發,卻從未因此而放慢腳步。她的美貌——據說曾讓伊麗莎白·泰勒艷羨慕不已——不僅為她贏得了電影角色和片廠付費的表演課程,還贏得了美國小伙子米基·魯尼的青睞。 21歲前,她與他結婚又離婚。在與弗蘭克辛納屈的婚姻風雨飄搖、備受矚目之前,她也曾與樂隊領隊阿蒂肖有過一段短暫的婚姻——她稱這兩位是她的「首任丈夫」。這段婚姻持續了四年,堪稱一場「馬拉松」。
除此之外,她還參演了電影:《一觸金星》、《鬣蜥之夜》、《演藝船》、《殺手》、《乞力馬扎羅的雪》、《赤腳伯爵夫人》、《紅塵》、《海灘》、《太陽照常升起》等等,她的職業生涯長達四十年,直到一場嚴重的中風導致她面部部分鬆弛而戛止。所有這些作品都為已故記者彼得·埃文斯提供了寶貴的素材,她將這本令人惋惜卻夭折的《艾娃·加德納:秘密對話》付梓出版。
之所以說是“秘密”,是因為她曾在1988年同意與埃文斯合作撰寫回憶錄,並接受了他數小時的採訪後,卻臨陣退縮,停止了合作,並且——根據採訪結果來看——明智地撤回了出版許可。理論上,這筆交易在她1990年67歲去世時就已塵埃落定。
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s and 1950s, an Oscar-nominated lead-ing lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt
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Aug 2, 2013 — The memoir, titled “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations,” gives us insight into some lively social issues of its time.
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