Before she donned a tiara as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, in the beloved Downton Abbey TV series and spinoff films (the final one was just released), Elizabeth McGovern lit up movies such as ...

Recently-released Houston Texans safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson has found a new home heading into Week 6 of the NFL season. According to ESPN insider Adam Schefter, the Baltimore Ravens will be signing ...

Elizabeth McGovern in Ava: The Secret Conversations Credit: Jeff Lorch Unlike solo biographical shows, where the audience is the implied interlocutor/confessor for the life events as they unfold as ...

Fans of Elizabeth McGovern who find their way to the Studebaker Theater merely out of a desire to see a star of the TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” live and in person in Chicago, likely will ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" just opened to rave reviews, starring Elizabeth McGovern at the Studebaker Theater. The Evanston native plays one of the most compelling women to ever ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hello lovelies, today I will be discussing Ava Gardner's favorite beauty products. Ava Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, and passed away on January 25, 1990. She was an American actress and ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...