Known for her work in the ‘Downton Abbey’ series and movie adaptations, McGovern based this play on the book ‘Ava Gardner: ...

The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from Hollywood’s Golden era. In the late 1980s, a larger-than-life movie star from ...

Elizabeth McGovern as Ava Gardner in Ava: The Secret Conversations. Photo: Jeff Lorch The visage of a Hollywood siren haunts Ava: The Secret Conversations, Images of her famous pursed lips and ...

McGovern also wrote the play, and talked about this passion project. Gardner was in her 60s and broke, when she asked writer Peter Evans to tell her story to get some cash. And there was a lot to tell ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For all of Elizabeth McGovern's acting career, someone else wrote her lines. Now it's her turn. The “Downton Abbey” star pivots from British aristocracy to classic Hollywood royalty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but ...

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