Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Ava Gardner Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw Self (archive footage)

Ernest Hemingway Self (archive footage)