Following two years of planning and executing the Ava Centennial Celebration, the Ava Gardner Museum board will again host the Ava Gardner Festival. This year’s event will include fan favorite events…
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The Ava Gardner Museum has hosted a year-long Centennial celebration in honor of the legendary actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian Ava Gardner, a North Carolina native who grew up just 7-miles…
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Ava Gardner Museum celebrates Ava as a fashion icon with new exhibits and special guest Justin LeBlanc. Each year the Ava Gardner Museum celebrates the opening of the permanent home for the museum in…
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The 4th Annual Clayton Piano Festival is scheduled for September 29 - October 10 at The Clayton Center Auditorium in Historic Downtown Clayton in addition to workshops held in area schools. This…
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Join us in historic downtown Smithfield for the 10th Annual Ava Gardner Festival. October 3-5. Ava went to Hollywood in 1941, a beauty from North Carolina with her college threads and saddle oxford…
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John Huston stayed with his first choice actress, Ava Gardner to star in "The Night of the Iguana". In 1963 Ava Gardner was happy living in Madrid, away from Hollywood where paparazzi would not leave…
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The television series Mad Men is hot right now -- and Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk in Tennessee Williams', The Night of the Iguana was steamy back in the day. This year's Ava Gardner Festival is…
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