It is the night before Christmas & you're just about to snuggle up into bed for one last sleep before the big day...
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This wickedly candid memoir that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime offers a revealing self-portrait of the film legend's life & loves in Hollywood's golden age. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s & '50s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, & Humphrey Bogart, among others. But this riveting account of her storied life & career had to wait for publication until after her death, so concerned was Gardner with its frankness. 'I either write the book or sell the jewels, ' Gardner told co-author Peter Evans, 'and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.' The legendary actress serves up plenty of gems in these pages, reflecting with delicious humor & cutting wit on a life that took her from an impoverished childhood in North Carolina to the heights of stardom. Get ready for the most revealing Hollywood autobiography in decades. Read by William Hope