Ava Gardner News

This weekend brings the fifth annual Ava Gardner Festival to town. The celebration of the Brogden-born 20th century starlet will feature a new Ava Gardner Museum exhibit about Gardner's friendship with the writer Ernest Hemingway.

When the camera slowly dollies into a close-up shot of high heels held in a woman's hands, soon followed by a long overhead shot of a staircase, you know a tumble is in the works.

Each year the Ava Gardner Museum celebrates movie star Gardner's life and career by hosting the Ava Gardner Festival.

Ever since its introduction by Mary Martin in the 1943 musical "One Touch of Venus," the Kurt Weill -Ogden Nash ballad "Speak Low," crooned against a softened tango beat, has been synonymous with Olympian seduction.

Each year the Ava Gardner Museum celebrates Ava's life and career by hosting the Ava Gardner Festival.

MOGAMBO is a rip-roaring African adventure from MGM, in the tradition of that studio's KING SOLOMON'S MINES .

Ava Gardner 's Own Voice - Can't Help Lovin' That Man - 'Show Boat' I'd like to thank Mark over at Lost Vocals for finding this hidden gem - a clip of "Ava's own vocal track for this great song - she was dubbed by Annette Warren in the released film.

Riverfront Playhouse will present the French farce "The Little Hut" starting May 15 and running through June 20, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The BBC is reporting that filmmaker and world-renowned cinematographer Jack Cardiff has passed away at the age of 94.

In 2006, guitarist Bob Sneider and vibraphonist Joe Locke assembled a collective devoted to the jazz soundtrack of noir fiction called The Film Noir Project.