Unearthing the Unearthly (and Earthy) Ava Gardner
The career of Ava Gardner (1922-1990) can neatly be divided into thirds: 1) anonymity; 2) reign as world class siren; 3) schlock. I was there for the last third of it in my nonage, first experiencing her in things like the disaster movies Earthquake (1974), The Cassandra Crossing (1976), and City on Fire (1979), and […]