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  Ava Gardner
[ 2006-04-24 11:29 ]

 
 

Author: Lee Server

List Price: $29.95

Pages: 608

Publisher:  St. Martin's Press (April 18, 2006)

Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches

ISBN: 0312312091   

    | Book description |

 

Server follows his superb biography of Robert Mitchum (Baby I Don't Care, 2001) with the life of another midcentury movie icon: Ava Gardner. Gardner's rise from North Carolina tobacco country to Hollywood superstardom began when an MGM talent scout spotted her picture in the window of a photographer's studio. It's a Cinderella story, to be sure, but Server gives us the unexpurgated version, complete with Gardner's Mitchum-like credentials for booze consumption, rugged individualism, and sexual appetite (marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra and affairs with pretty much everyone else). And then there was her beauty--in interviews with dozens of stars, the message is the same: no one ever looked better than Ava Gardner. This is also a story of the studio system, and Gardner was one of its most notable victims, ill-used throughout her career, forced to do bad movies and forced to watch her good movies decimated in the cutting room. Server capably assesses the hits and misses, languishing on those electric moments when the camera caught the "feline sprawl of her exquisite body." A no-holds-barred view of a larger-than-life star.

Book review

Lee Server is one fascinating writer. His exceptionally well written book, "Ava Gardner" is one to be savored! The author has an uncanny ability to capture Gardner in the most humane, respectable and revealing terms, while sharing fascinating behind-the-scenes first hand accounts that serve to show all sides of Gardner's life.

I've been enthralled with biographies since the third grade, and this one is beautifully written. There's a lot to learn and discover. Most importantly this book is especially flowing, interesting, and the kind of book you can't put down.

As Ava "lived large, long, and precisely as she wanted to" this book truly shares it all. This is an excellent biography about an incredibly interesting woman!


Author introduction

Lee Server is an American writer. He  is the author of the successful biography on Robert Mitchum, 'BABY I DON'T CARE'. He has been busy for the last decade, cranking out some of the most challenging works in print including among others: 'SAM FULLER: FILM IS A BATTLEGROUND: A Critical Study, With Interviews, a Filmography and a Bibliography', 'DANGER IS MY BUSINESS: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines/1896-1953', as well as editing 'THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR' a collection of articles on film noir by several contributors.

 
 
 




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