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Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...
Bogart) persuades her to take a screen test in Rome. True to form, untouchable Ava is soon in bright lights from coast to coast...
Bandleader Artie Shaw, 44, whose seven marriages (among his ex-wives: Novelist Kathleen Winsor, Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) all started out well, seemed to be right back where he began. His current bride (No. 7). Actress Doris Dowling, gathered up their 13-month-old son Jonathan and moved in with her sister...
Excitement followed peripatetic Ava Gardner wherever she went. Arriving with her entourage in Rio de Janeiro for a publicity tour, Ava stepped off her plane with her prettiest professional smile. But she soon lost her temper when she was instructed to go through the police, health and customs routine, just like any other traveler. As she opened each piece of luggage, Ava got angrier and angrier, while the customs inspector got increasingly conscientious and methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...