Elizabeth McGovern is fired up when she talks about Ava Gardner, whom the Downton Abbey star portrays in a stage show that ...

The Secret Conversation,” the “Downton Abbey” star brings new life to an indomitable star of Hollywood’s golden age ...

Elizabeth McGovern ponders how Ava Gardner would fit in at Downton Abbey. Get your first look at McGovern as the Golden Age movie star in a new play headed stateside in 2023.

Gardner’s steamy personal life is recalled in “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” a play adapted by its star, Elizabeth McGovern, from the book “The Secret Conversations” by Peter Evans and ...

Elizabeth McGovern as Ava Gardner. Gorgeous, infamous and woefully misrepresented, Ava Gardner is one of numerous Old Hollywood actresses who is being reevaluated by audiences today.

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer. The play, written by McGovern ...

Elizabeth McGovern gets downright gritty in a gutsy, full-blown exploration of one of Hollywood’s most meta-femmes fatales in AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS.

It's hard to imagine 'Ava: The Secret Conversations' getting produced at the Geffen Playhouse without Elizabeth McGovern on the marquee as the show's star.

The stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood are more image than substance, more enigma than knowable. That paradox between the ubiquity of their face and the truths of their innermost lives is at the ...

Plenty of luminaries, including the King and Queen themselves, have passed through the halls of Downton Abbey. But Elizabeth McGovern, who stars as matriarch Cora in the long-running series and ...