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	Podcast:		Great Lives
	Episode:		Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:43
	Publish Date:		2013-08-27 11:00:00
	Description:		The writer Julie Burchill talks to Matthew Parris about the Hollywood star Ava Gardner. They're joined by Ava's biographer Lee Server. Often described as "the most beautiful woman in the world", Ava Gardner made 65 movies, ranging from 'Mogambo' (for which she won an Oscar nomination) to 'Maisie Goes To Reno' (for which she didn't). She had three husbands (Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra) and hundreds of lovers including Howard Hughes, David Niven, Robert Mitchum, John F.Kennedy and various playboys, beach-boys and bullfighters. She was, says Matthew Parris, a "hard-drinking, wisecracking, libidinous vamp - a liberated woman before the phrase was invented.
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