When an aging movie goddess, Ava Gardner, asks a journalist to write her memoir in Elizabeth McGovern’s new play, “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” she is blunt about her motives: “I need the money.” ...

Elizabeth McGovern as Ava Gardner in AVA: The Secret Conversations. Photo: Jeff Lorch It must be noted that Aaron Costa Ganis, who plays all of the men in the play, is colorful and versatile, even ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in. Elizabeth McGovern plays ...

In “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” Elizabeth McGovern amusingly drops the genteel, demure demeanor she has deployed to such successful effect in recent years as Lady Cora Crawley in the “Downton ...

Like Ava Gardner, the subject of the play she’s written and stars in, Elizabeth McGovern came to Hollywood at a young age, winning her breakout role in Robert Redford’s 1980 film version of Ordinary ...

In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but before long, Gardner was calling Evans in the middle of the night, ...