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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Peter.
Ava Gardner : the secret conversations / Peter Evans and Ava Gardner. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
pages cm
Includes index.
1. Gardner, Ava, 1922–1990. 2. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287.G37E84 2013
791.4302’8092—dc23
[B] 2012048411
ISBN 978-1-4516-2769-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-2771-8 (ebook)
1: Courtesy of the Ava Gardner Trust · 2, 4: State Archives of North Carolina and The News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina · 3, 9: Everett Collection · 5, 8: Photofest · 10: Hulton Archive/Getty Images · 11, 13: © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis · 6, 7, 12, 14: © Bettman/Corbis · 15: © 1983 Tom Zimberoff.