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I Human Side Of A Heavenly Body
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"Nearly everyone puts up a barrier as a defense from insecurity and fears," says Ava.
After all, it's the most interesting side, especially when it belongs to Ava Gardner
Luscious and glamourous, Ava seldom attends lavish parties. Has never given one herself.
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you talk you are always barrelled dent. That true glamour of hers gives you the first wallop. Believe me, she isn't synthetic. MGM hasn't assembled Ava in a spare hour. She's not just a slick trick of clever photography, with added siren sound effects. At conversational closeness, her face and figure are genuine dream stuff. Further. Ava is deliriously neither too old nor too young, and she was born with the rare knack of being fascinatingly feminine. In person, not merely on a screen.
This last-mentioned instinctive flair of hers was unfortunately blocked until she got to Hollywood. More of how she licked this particular personal problem later on.
Obviously, Ava is developing her acting ability out Culver City way and is now destined to climb to her very own niche in Hollywood's history. But the generally unappreciated fact I think worth bringing out is this: away from her studio she is already in full bloom— as a human being. I want to tell you, here, about the unpublicized side of this lovable Gardner girl.
You have read enough about the reaction she causes when she steps out in standard Hollywood style. When Ava goes to a premiere or to Ciro's she lands in all the columns the morning after. Her behavior is invariably genteel, but her appearance is so completely sock that she is the eye-stealer. She grins impishly at an escort and the know-it-alls wrap that