RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 061285687 LA English T1 Ava Gardner : "love is nothing" A1 Server, Lee., PB St. Martin's Press PP New York YR 2006 SN 0312312091 9780312312091 AB The first full-length biography of the farm girl from North Carolina who became a Hollywood goddess. It recreates a life of glamour, hedonism, and self-destruction, painted in bold colors on the canvas of big-studio Hollywood in the forties and fifties, exotic locations, the Rome of La Dolce Vita, and the Spain of bullfighters and dictators. Her stunning beauty and lack of inhibition led to a tumultuous private life and a long search for love, including marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, and relationships with Hemingway, Howard Hughes, George C. Scott, and famous matador Mario Cabre.--From publisher description.