The “Downton Abbey” actress both wrote and stars in this show about Hollywood’s Ava Gardner. It’s a brave and complicated ...

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In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but before long, Gardner was calling Evans in the middle of the night, ...

Like Ava Gardner, the subject of the play she’s written and stars in, Elizabeth McGovern came to Hollywood at a young age, winning her breakout role in Robert Redford’s 1980 film version of Ordinary ...

The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from Hollywood’s Golden era. In the late 1980s, a larger-than-life movie star from ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in. Elizabeth McGovern plays ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" just opened to rave reviews, starring Elizabeth McGovern at the Studebaker Theater. The Evanston native plays one of the most compelling women to ever ...

The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from ...