I am passionate about “bubbly!” My beloved aunt, Ava Gardner, cultivated my taste for great champagne by introducing me to the best that France had to offer. From the time I was a teenager, I was

Tennessee Williams is noted to have said, Ava Gardner’s “ego was centered, it seems to me, around her friendships. ‘I’m a damn good friend,’ she always said.”

The value Ava assigned to friendship

In January 1990, my heart was full, and I was brimming with excitement. I had recently spoken with my Aunt Ava about a trip she was planning to make home to North Carolina. Despite the difficulties

Early in the morning on Friday, March 10, my daughter, Ava Malissa Silver, and I boarded a train from the Victoria Station in London headed to East Grinstead, home of the

Saturday, March 12 was a beautiful, sunny day in London and very exciting for me and my daughter, Ava Malissa. We were in London to see the play, , with

I get many questions about the Ava Gardner Trust and how it still exists thirty years after Ava’s passing. Many want to know what the Trust does and how it operates. The Trust has evolved through the

Special guest blog by Ava's great-niece, Ava Thompson.

Ava Thompson at the Ava Gardner Museum in 2014 with her granddaughter, Ava Isabella, the 5th generation Ava.

The Ava Gardner Museum is