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185Ava Gardner presents Documentary Oscars in 1949 (video and photoset) Robert Montgomery says in the beginning: “When you speak of Ava Gardner, you have to start by admitting that Mother Nature certainly lingered over the job.”
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187Newlyweds Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra arrive in London, England in December of 1951. Married on November 7th, 1951 and only in London for one day, Frank was accompanying Ava to Nairobi, Kenya where she was due to begin location shoots for the Twentieth Century Fox/Henry King drama The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which was released the following year.
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194Ava Gardner with Kirk Douglas from the 1949 Camel Screen Guild Theater performance of Flesh and Fantasy
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197Ava Gardner making pancakes at home, 1940s
"Ava and I had a great weekend. We cooked Southern feasts — the glory that was grease, we called them — fried everything, vegetables obliterated in pork fat, rich cakes made in Crisco, pecan pie. She was one of those rare women who could gorge on everything she wanted and never gain a pound, though somehow I sensed she wished she could get fat and bail from the business altogether."
-Mr S, The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs
"Ava and I had a great weekend. We cooked Southern feasts — the glory that was grease, we called them — fried everything, vegetables obliterated in pork fat, rich cakes made in Crisco, pecan pie. She was one of those rare women who could gorge on everything she wanted and never gain a pound, though somehow I sensed she wished she could get fat and bail from the business altogether."
-Mr S, The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs
