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4.0
“Miss Gardner is gone, but she got her wish. She had champagne and a cigarette.”
Ava Gardner is arguably one of the most underrated actresses of Old Hollywood in my opinion. Feisty, intelligent, talented as hell, she was so much more interesting and complicated than her glamorous, sexy image and this book does do a lot of justice to present her as such, with some fantastic images in the process. However, what I would say is that it is not the most in-depth of biographies in my opinion (and I don’t believe it is supposed to be as it is more of a coffee table book) and there wasn’t that much new information I hadn’t read from other biographies from what I could perceive, but nevertheless I do appreciate a lot how this has brought Ava Gardner back into the spotlight where she deserves to be, as well as it is a damn good biography to get others into her and her work.
Ava Gardner is arguably one of the most underrated actresses of Old Hollywood in my opinion. Feisty, intelligent, talented as hell, she was so much more interesting and complicated than her glamorous, sexy image and this book does do a lot of justice to present her as such, with some fantastic images in the process. However, what I would say is that it is not the most in-depth of biographies in my opinion (and I don’t believe it is supposed to be as it is more of a coffee table book) and there wasn’t that much new information I hadn’t read from other biographies from what I could perceive, but nevertheless I do appreciate a lot how this has brought Ava Gardner back into the spotlight where she deserves to be, as well as it is a damn good biography to get others into her and her work.
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