Elizabeth McGovern must have felt the same way as a lovely, ambitious, aspiring newcomer eager to make her own mark on the ...

Broadway play and cast herself against type as Ava Gardner, re-creating that Hollywood performer’s late-in-life meetings with ...

McGovern’s got a sadder and sweeter aura than Gardner, or at least than the constructed fatale character that Hollywood cast ...

Directed by Tony Award-nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the production co-stars Aaron Costa Ganis as Evans, who also channels ...

The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern just made its New York premiere at NY City Center, Stage ...

It’s very liberating to take off that psychological corset,” the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star Ava Gardner onstage.

The Secret Conversation,” the “Downton Abbey” star brings new life to an indomitable star of Hollywood’s golden age ...

Elizabeth McGovern channels Ava Gardner, a starry “Twelfth Night” reopens the Delacorte and Luke Newton of “Bridgerton” plays ...

Ava Gardner’s rise to fame is as fascinating as are her on-screen performances. Born in Grabtown, North Carolina, in 1922, Gardner grew up in modest surroundings.

Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, Dec. 12, 1951: Ava Gardner grants one of her magnetic smiles to a young German customs official after arriving at Rhein-Main Air Base with her newly minted husband ...