Ava Gardner spent her later years living quietly in London, where she continued to engage with the arts and maintained close friendships until her death from pneumonia on Jan. 25, 1990.

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer. The play, written by McGovern ...

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer. The play, written by McGovern ...

Ava: The Secret Conversations Off-Broadway - Ava: The Secret Conversations The Golden Age of Cinema’s Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt ...

SYNOPSIS: The Golden Age of Cinema’s Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to ...

Elizabeth McGovern will bring 'Ava: The Secret Conversations' to NY City Center, ... Here, she plays Ava Gardner, one of the brightest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Evans had been hired to write Gardner’s autobiography, but she ended up firing him. His book detailing the interview was not published until 2013, and has been re-imagined by McGovern for the stage.