Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

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 she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

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  Jean-Frédéric Thibault
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  Arnaud Xainte

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  Ava Gardner
  Self (archive footage)
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  Frank Sinatra
  Self (archive footage)
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  Mickey Rooney
  Self (archive footage)
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  Artie Shaw
  Self (archive footage)
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  Ernest Hemingway
  Self (archive footage)
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  John Huston
  Self (archive footage)
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  Nicole Calfan
  Self
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  MIchael Garady
  Self