The life of a beautiful peasant dancer turned popular actress unfolds via flashbacks recalled by mourners at her funeral, including the director whose career she saved, a press agent who witnessed ...

Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling ... named after a 1954 Ava Gardner movie but perfectly ...

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