Elizabeth McGovern, known for her role in "Downton Abbey," has written a play about Ava Gardner. The play, titled "Ava: The Secret Conversations," explores Gardner's relationship with journalist Peter ...

Elizabeth McGovern must have felt the same way as a lovely, ambitious, aspiring newcomer eager to make her own mark on the ...

Broadway play and cast herself against type as Ava Gardner, re-creating that Hollywood performer’s late-in-life meetings with ...

It’s very liberating to take off that psychological corset,” the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star ...

McGovern’s got a sadder and sweeter aura than Gardner, or at least than the constructed fatale character that Hollywood cast ...

The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern just made its New York premiere at NY City Center, Stage ...

In 1985, Ava Gardner and two of her sisters attempted to visit the Ava Gardner Museum, near the farm where she was born in Smithfield, North Carolina. Unfortunately, it was closed.

Ava Gardner reportedly helped resuscitate Frank Sinatra’s career By the time Gardner and Sinatra married in 1951, Sinatra’s career had taken a dip.

Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing Ava Gardner packed a lot of living -- and loving -- into her 67 years, and Lee Server seems hell bent on chronicling every dalliance in excruciating detail. Relying ...

The Ava Gardner Museum hosts an annual festival in honor of the legendary actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian Ava Gardner, a North Carolina native who grew up just 7-miles east of Smithfield, NC.

Ava Gardner has a true story somewhere in her past, but we won’t be reading it anytime soon. She’s buried in Smithfield, N.C., in the Gardner family plot, but no one looks for her there.