Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing

“The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent.”—Liz Smith

She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.  She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life.  Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard Hughes begged her to marry him—but she knocked out his front teeth instead.

She was one of the great icons in Holl…