McGovern, 63, is portraying the “Show Boat” star in “Ava: The Secret Conversations.” The off-Broadway show is based on a series of real-life interviews Gardner conducted with Peter Evans, who wrote ...

Ava Gardner shared why she stayed in her relationship with Frank Sinatra. Gardner and Sinatra met while he was still married to his first wife, Nancy Barbato.

Ava Gardner is remembered as the ultimate femme fatale of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her beauty captivated producers and ...

Ava Gardner was married to two Hollywood legends — and dated a few more Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also written about ...

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner had one of Hollywood’s most explosive marriages.The pair’s romance began as an affair and remained just as drama-filled until their divorce. They separated often ...

In 1985, Ava Gardner and two of her sisters attempted to visit the Ava Gardner Museum, near the farm where she was born in Smithfield, North Carolina. Unfortunately, it was closed.

The Ava Gardner Museum hosts an annual festival in honor of the legendary actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian Ava Gardner, a North Carolina native who grew up just 7-miles east of Smithfield, NC.

The Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, Johnston County, has restored the starlet’s original birth certificate showing her biography details from North Carolina where her family were tenant ...