Ava: My Story. by Ava Gardner. I want to write about the Hollywood I knew from the early forties when I arrived wide-eyed from the cotton and tobacco fields of North Carolina, about the films I made, many in exotic settings all over the world, and the real behind-the-scenes stories, often a damn sight more dramatic than the movies themselves.

Ava: My Story. by Ava Gardner. I want to write about the Hollywood I knew from the early forties when I arrived wide-eyed from the cotton and tobacco fields of North Carolina, about the films I made, many in exotic settings all over the world, and the real behind-the-scenes stories, often a damn sight more dramatic than the movies themselves.