![]() ![]() She was a virgin when Rooney, then MGM’s hottest star, proposed to her. Her films ranged from “Show Boat” to “The Barefoot Contessa” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” She not only worked with great directors but also consorted with them (including John Huston). With all its flaws, “Secret Conversations” will help restore the mythology surrounding Gardner as a hard-living, sharecropper’s daughter who co-starred with Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart and Burt Lancaster during the ’40s and ’50s. The memoir was finally pulled together by Ed Victor, Evans’ resourceful agent. Her on-again, off-again ghost, Peter Evans, died before completing the book (Gardner herself died in 1990). ![]() Gardner started and stopped composing her book several times, finally pursuing it because she was broke and didn’t want to sell the jewelry that Sinatra and other famous lovers had given her. Sex was defined as “being good in the feathers,” death was “pushing around the clouds” and Ava’s summary of her own life was, “She made movies, she made out and she made a fucking mess of her life, but she never made jam.” The memoir, based on Gardner’s middle-of-the-night rants, effectively reminds us of the salty jargon of that glitzy era. ![]()
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