Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glamour, sex, Ava Gardner, et al.! Oh, boy ! Just what Hollywood needs! . . . Half the world in slavery; U.S. morals in a questionable and precarious position, amply aided by Hollywood; and TIME [Sept. 3] says what Hollywood needs is GLAMOUR! Where, oh, where, is your sense of values...
Asked by a newsman last week to confirm a reported statement that she was through with romance, Ava replied calmly: "Why no, that must have been somebody else...
Damned Good Secretary? Ava bridles at any criticism of her conduct: "Nobody is going to run my life. Neither the studio or the press." She is indifferent to prospects of fame & big money: "Acting bores me. I have no need for money. Anyway I could always be a damn good secretary. This movie thing is not the end. This isn't what I really want. I like the simple life...
...still one of the greatest glamor girls of them all, has set down three prerequisites for glamor. The first is that a star must not try too hard to woo the public, for the public reacts in the same way as a man who is chased too hard; indifferent Ava fulfills that condition. Prerequisite No. 2: a glamor girl must enjoy sex, rather than just pretend to enjoy it on the screen; Hollywood's enthusiastic consensus is that Ava Gardner fulfills that condition, too. Prerequisite No. 3: the glamor girl must have an inner authority and economy (i.e., poise...
...does, Ava Gardner may yet, in spite of herself, wind up bringing glamor back to Hollywood...