Smithfield’s Ava Gardner Museum on Saturday will unveil a new exhibit dedicated to the Hollywood starlet’s life in London. Gardner was born just a few miles east of Smithfield and called Johnston ...

Cutting the ribbon for the exhibit were, from left, Smithfield Mayor Andy Moore, John Lynch, Deanna Brandenberger, Mary Edna Grantham, Ava Carol Thompson and Rick Lotz. AVA GARDNER MUSEUM The Ava ...

Ava Gardner was an international star in Hollywood, but few realised that she lived out her later years in London. Born in North Carolina, she moved to LA in the early 1940s, making her mark in films ...

The Ava Gardner Museum has hosted a year-long Centennial celebration in honor of the legendary actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian Ava Gardner, a North Carolina native who grew up just 7-miles ...

The late actress Ava Gardner says in her autobiography that former lover George C. Scott drunkenly beat her, and that she aborted two babies fathered by husband Frank Sinatra. Gardner, who died from ...

AVA: The Secret Conversations will have its world premiere at the Riverside Studios in January. Adapted and starring Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), the piece is based on the book by Peter Evans ...

To be sure, we all want to know about Frank Sinatra’s penis – 10 pounds man, 110 pounds meat, it was thought. And Ava Gardner would know more about that than anybody. Ava and Frank were the world’s ...

Plenty of luminaries, including the King and Queen themselves, have passed through the halls of Downton Abbey. But Elizabeth McGovern, who stars as matriarch Cora in the long-running series and ...