Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
For the loot, honey, for the loot.
I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
Was portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the 1992 TV biopic Sinatra.
Ava once appeared as a Mystery Guest on What's My Line?
MGM loaned Ava out to Monogram Studios in 1943 where she appeared in Ghosts on the Loose with Bela Lugosi. Ava later recalled Lugosi as being a nice man.
Ava's housekeeper and nursemaid during her final years went to work for Gregory Peck after she died.
Many critics thought Ava should have been nominated for an Academy Award in 1965 for her performance in Night of the Iguana.
To the great astonishment of the director, Ava did her own stuntwork in the 1974 disaster film Earthquake.
Ava's third husband, Frank Sinatra, nicknamed her Angel.
Ava's measurements were 36-23 1/2-37 according to Celebrity Sleuth magazine.
Ava claimed that the first book she ever read was Gone With the Wind.
Ava was 5 feet, 6 inches tall.
Ava was portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator.
Ava was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1953 for Mogambo.
Humphrey Bogart denigrated Ava as a little hillbilly girl from North Carolina after working with her in The Barefoot Contessa.
Ava admitted to having an abortion during the filming of Mogambo.
Ava resided in London, UK for the last 26 years of her life.
Ava's show biz career began when her brother-in-law, a professional New York City photographer, took pictures of her which were seen by an MGM talent scout.
Ava's parents were tobacco farmers.
Ava is buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield, NC where she grew up along with her parents and siblings.
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