A new book titled Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations contains amazing candid interviews with the legendary sex siren, who passed away in 1990. The book is based on interviews with Peter Evans, a friend and confidant Gardner trusted during the last years of her life while living in London. In an excerpt from the book, Gardner doesn't hold back when it comes to her ill-fated marriage to Mickey Rooney, then the top boxoffice attraction in the world. It was Rooney who plucked Gardner from a secretarial position on the studio lot, wooed her, married her and made it possible for her to become a star. Their marriage was a tempestuous one, with Rooney's penchant for skirt-chasing finally causing them to divorce. But Gardner still allowed him back because the sex was so good. In an era that preceded women's liberation, Gardner never gave a damn what anyone thought of her insatiable sexual appetites, which made it even more impressive that that the puritan attitudes of the time didn't derail her career. Click here to read extended excerpt.
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