Ava Gardner

"Listen, honey, I was never really an actress. None of us kids who came from M-G-M were. We were just good to look at." "Because I was promoted as a sort of siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong." Ava Lavinia Gardner was born in Grabtown, North Carolina, on December 24, 1922. She was her parents' seventh child. When Gardner was 2 years old, she and her family… (plus)