Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Tarr studios, introducing himself as a "Metro talent scout," and asked for the girl's name & address. Her name, he heard, was Ava Gardner, and she lived down in North Carolina. Disappointed that he could not meet her, Duhan told Tarr to send some pictures over. Tarr sent 60. Metro bigwigs saw them...
...Ava got a screen test, and within a few months she was on her way to Hollywood as a "starlet" at $50 a week. "It never dawned on me," she says, "that I wasn't going to be a smash right away." Apparently it never dawned on anyone to reward her discoverer: Talent Scout Duhan is now a New York City...
...dress extras of paradise. Their main job is to pose for cheesecake pictures and to be ever ready to be named by the United Elevator Operators of America as the Girl They Would Most Like to Be Stuck With at the Top of the Empire State Building. That was Ava's life in Hollywood until one fateful day when someone on the M-G-M lot suggested that she might like to meet Mickey Rooney. "Why?" she asked naively...
...Ava recalls wickedly. "A little Southern lady. 'I'm. busy,' I told him. Busy! I didn't know a soul...
...months later, Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married (over Metro Mogul Louis B. Mayer's massive opposition). The studio sent a pressagent along on the honeymoon. "When you came down to breakfast, he was there," Ava recalls bitterly. "When you had your dinner, he was there. When you went to bed, he was damn near there." It was enough to make any husband jumpy. "On our wedding night," says Ava, "Mickey was so nervous. He kept writing letters to people and walking up and down...