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‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt

As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava Gardner

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'Downton Abbey' star Elizabeth McGovern brings Ava Gardner's tumultuous life to the stage

Elizabeth McGovern, known for her role in "Downton Abbey," has written a play about Ava Gardner

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35 Old Photos That Show Something Which Now Is Completely Changed

These rare historical photos offer a fascinating glimpse into moments from the past that shaped our world.

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Every Taylor Jenkins Reid Book, Ranked—From 'Daisy Jones & the Six' to 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo'

Her latest novel, 'Atmosphere,' just hit shelves.

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Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets

Brando, Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg and other A-listers are featured in a memoir about the glamour of the 1950s film industry

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65 Years Ago, The Most Quietly Unsettling Post-Apocalyptic Movie Was Ahead Of Its Time

The world will end with a bang, then a whimper.

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‘I was born to be a paparazzo’: Rino Barillari on royalty, the dolce vita era and his run-in with Depardieu

The Italian photographer is no stranger to altercations, but when he set off for Harry’s Bar, it had been a while since his last celebrity contretemps

The Guardian - UK

Martin Scorsese casts Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in the Frank Sinatra biopic he's been trying to make since 2009

He doesn't have the blessing from Sinatra's estate yet

Total Film

Martin Scorsese to revive Frank Sinatra biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio

The director is planning to return to his long-delayed project with Jennifer Lawrence co-starring as Ava Gardner – but rights may prove a stumbling-block

The Guardian - UK

Kate Beckinsale Wore A Giant Blue Diamond As A Skirt To Leonardo DiCaprio’s 49th Birthday, And It’s Giving Me Titanic Vibes

Kate Beckinsale attended Leonardo DiCaprio’s 49th birthday, wearing an outfit that’s giving me Titanic vibes.

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'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

The Conversation

Forty Cannes film festivals viewed through one photographer's lens

When Eric Gaillard first went to photograph the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, it was a smaller, more intimate affair - the kind of place where you could see the greats from Hollywood's Golden Age like Lauren Bacall or Ava Gardner wandering alone on the esplanade or having fun on…

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K-pop tourism: how Tossa de Mar became a hot spot

After a Korean TV series and pop videos were shot at the Costa Brava town, Asian daytrippers have been flocking there to take photos – but it’s not the first time celebrities have boosted its tourist figures

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Very rare full 10-bed Knightsbridge house with underground mews link for sale

The property, on a street once inhabited by Michael Caine and Ava Gardner, hides a huge revamped home with basement pool and cinema - plus internal links to a terraced property on a different street

Daily Mirror

Stars who enjoyed multiple marriages as Patsy Kensit prepares for fifth wedding

As Patsy Kensit prepares to wed her fifth husband, we take a look at other stars who have racked up multiple marriages, from Zsa Zsa Gabor's nine weddings, to Sean Bean's five

The Guardian - UK

A lowly sergeant, but Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood is top of the cops

Sarah Lancashire’s portrayal in the hit series is 10 times tougher than her TV predecessors

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Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe did it their way: stars’ romance detailed in new book

“Frank & Marilyn: The Lives, the Loves and the Fascinating Relationship of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe” by Edward Z. Epstein; Post Hill Press (304 pages, $30)

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Martin Schram: Seven days in May — saving America from within

“Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about right-wing Pentagon generals who tried to topple the U.S. government.

Benzinga

15 Best Whiskeys To Sip And Savor — Plus Zinger Nation Weighs In On Their Favs (Is Yours On The List?)

Rebellions, such as the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, have been fueled by it and such noted figures as Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner (who said she wanted to die with a cigarette and whiskey in hand), Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Sir Winston Churchill used whiskey to enliven or tame their souls.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Ava: The Secret Conversations – review

Mark Rylance mines more drama from the doctor driven mad by his work on hygiene than Elizabeth McGovern finds in the faded glamour of Ava Gardner

Evening Standard

I can’t give up on a book, even a bad one. It’s weirdly addictive

Certain phrases get stuck in your head, however long ago you heard them. “It’s your own time you’re wasting,” is one for me. I can hear immediately the world-weary way they were delivered by my primary school teacher.

The Guardian - UK

Ava: The Secret Conversations review – Elizabeth McGovern captures Gardner’s Hollywood glamour

Director Gaby Dellal’s striking production splices film and theatre with finesse while McGovern as Gardner riffs on important moments and men in her life

The Independent UK

Ava: The Secret Conversations review: Elizabeth McGovern paints an uneven portrait of a fading Hollywood star

Biographical drama is a feeble attempt to immortalise an already-fading Hollywood star

Evening Standard

Ava: The Secret Conversations review: a lazy portrait from Elizabeth McGovern

This self-created star vehicle from the Downton actor needs a better script

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