Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

Being a lifelong fan of Ava Garner and her being a local celebrity just a few miles of the road for her birthplace the photos of hills and cabins we're totally incorrect as our birthplace. Her birthplace is near Smithfield and Raleigh North Carolina and that's definitely not the hills of the Appalachians. Very disappointed after 2 minutes and 2 seconds of watching this. There is a museum in Smithfield North Carolina that shows Ava's early life and Hollywood Life and personal life and the love of her life Frank Sinatra. Lots of stories about her beginnings and working in Hollywood. She was a beautiful woman and reminded me of my mother who is from Nash County North Carolina adjacent to Johnson County North Carolina. She may have had personal demons that forced her to leave the United States for solitude but that may be something that celebrities deal with and have to live with.

This so-called documentary seems like a couple of guys got stoned and tossed together random footage from 1940s films and then wrote a senseless script read by several different narrators speaking simultaneously. Had to turn it off after 20 minutes. One of the primary contributors interviewed throughout is a French woman whose name is shown on screen sometimes as Elizabeth Goulsen, and at other times as Elisabeth Goulsan and is credited as an author and also as Ava Gardner's cousin. A quick Google search for her various name spellings yields zero results, so I'm guessing she's the filmmaker's mom just spouting tripe she read on Wikipedia. There's another dude that is also French speaking authoritatively about various events in Gardner's life, and for me this was a huge red flag. The elephant in the room, so to speak. Are we really supposed to buy the idea that French people even know who Ava Gardner is? I'm not an idiot.

Bottom line, fellas, I'm gonna need you to take a pass on this one. A hard pass.