Jack Fixa, Miss G, and Me
Nina Khan lived next door to Ava Gardner’s secretary, Jack Fixa, in Bayswater in London in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through Jack she met Ava. The below blog consists of her memories of both Jack and…
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Category: Ava's Friends
Museum Alphabet: The Ava Gardner Museum From A to Z
The Ava Gardner Museum has spent the last few months participating in #MuseumAlphabet, sharing artifacts from the collection from A to Z as a way to bring the museum to you at home. Now you can…
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Celebrity Visitors to the Ava Gardner Museum
The first incarnation of the Ava Gardner Museum opened in the summer of 1981. Operating as a seasonal attraction, the museum was housed in a building where Ava once lived in the rural community of…
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Celebrating Black History Month at the Ava Gardner Museum
Ava Gardner was a lifelong supporter of equal rights. Growing up in the segregated South, Ava regularly broke the societal expectations for segregation, sitting with her Black friends in the “colored”…
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"The Sun Also Rises" & The Lost Generation of the 1920s
January 2020 marks 100 years since the start of the “Roaring Twenties” and the start of Prohibition. The decade of the 1920s is well-known as an economically prosperous time period, a time of cultural…
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