As part of our “Ava 100” celebrations, the Ava Gardner Museum will be sharing clips from our special initiative called the “Ava Memories” Project. Follow along with us all month long as we share video tributes to Ava Gardner from her family, friends, co-stars, and close associates as well as film experts and devoted fans from around the world. In this clip, our friend Benjamin Meissner shares his memories of first discovering Ava “the great star” and how the Museum helps him and others around th

Ava Gardner may have been the most beautiful star of Hollywood's golden era—but even her looks couldn't save her from betrayal and heartache