HARD COVER MID SIZE EDITION WITH DUST JACKET... SOME FOXING DUE TO AGEThe most beautiful woman in the world." Elizabeth Taylor on Ava Gardner. With her dark, sultry beauty and earthy eroticism, Ava Gardner was a Hollywood natural. They said she couldn't act, but her innate sensuality was more than enough. Alluring and elusive, she has always brought her own life to the screen. Her marriages, lovers, hell-raising and loneliness, and her strangely contrasting reticence were all echoed in the parts she played. She was the femme fatale of the early days, and the wise-cracking playgirl of Mogambo, but she was also the sad, reflective woman of The Snows of Kilimanjaro....This lavishly illustrated biography is the first of its kind, containing photographs from all Ava Gardner's major films.