13: The Love Goddess: Ava Gardner
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our man Nick wasn't always scribbling furiously in a courtroom, and his Hollywood roots were never far from his mind. To whit: In 1984, he sat to interview screen goddess Ava Gardner. Alicia weaves his words with Gardner's own, from the book she published years after, filling in the portrait of this legendary star.
Sources:
Fatal Charms and The Mansion of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne
Ava: My Story, by Ava Gardner
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K.-slash Wondery. That's audible.com.uk.U.K. slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to Dunn and Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks so much for joining me today and a little bit of a departure from true crime. |
| 0:23.4 | We have been heavy on true crime over the last few episodes, and quite frankly, as we are in the |
| 0:29.0 | middle of moving homes, there's enough true crime in my current life with sorting and packing, |
| 0:34.8 | my past and my future. True crime was not the only genre Dominic Dunn was into. |
| 0:40.6 | He plays high society, sure, but Hollywood, y'all. Come on, this is the kid with Aunt Harriet |
| 0:47.3 | who loves it all and makes his career in name in Hollywood living the high life. |
| 0:53.4 | In some remarkable pieces for Vanity Fair, as well as published |
| 0:57.1 | in Fatal Charms and Mansions of Limbo, Dominic will write some fascinating portraits of his |
| 1:02.5 | lady friends from Hollywood. We have talked about one of these already, the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. |
| 1:09.0 | Today it is time for another legend, Ava Gardner. |
| 1:12.9 | Dominic talks with Ava Gardner in the spring of 1984, with Vanity Fair publishing his |
| 1:18.3 | recollections in their vanities column in a piece called Ava Now in June of that same year. |
| 1:25.2 | And remembering back to a previous Dun & Dun episode, you recall the Dominic Dunn, Frank Sinatra, |
| 1:31.2 | Bruhaha. |
| 1:32.7 | Frank Sinatra is Ava Gardner's third husband. |
| 1:36.2 | Dominic and Frank have a longstanding feud. |
| 1:39.3 | How do we get to this particular interview of Dominic's with Ava Gardner, Love Goddess of Hollywood. |
| 1:47.2 | Let's investigate. |
| 2:10.5 | Thank you. Oh, Ava Gardner, I do love her story. I'm going to open the episode with Dunn's writing here from the beginning of Ava now. Let's not talk about Mickey or Artie or Frank, |
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