Town of Smithfield revives the Ava Gardner Festival
SMITHFIELD — During the 1940s and ’50s, Hollywood actress Ava Gardner graced the screen as a larger-than-life presence.Some still consider her the most beautiful actress in Hollywood history. Others may remember her toward the end of her career, playing the tempestuous Ruth Sumner Galveston on the primetime CBS soap opera, “Knots Landing.”Nearly three decades since her death, the sloe-eyed beauty with the distinctive cleft chin remains a larger-than-life figure for many […]
