Before his death in 2012, Peter Evans wrote for the Daily Express, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue and many British newspapers. She grew up in Hell's Kitchen in New York, dreaming of a way to get out of her abusive household. lizzie is very magnetic and has beautiful delicate features but ava is a goddess on earth. The following year, she played her last major leading role in the critically acclaimed The Night of the Iguana (1964), based upon a Tennessee Williams play, and starring Richard Burton as an atheist clergyman and Deborah Kerr as a gentle artist traveling with her aged poet grandfather. trivia, Avas main problem was she hated to be alone. Gardner played her breakthrough part in 1946, starting in Robert Siodmaks The Killers, based on a short story of the same name, by Ernest Papa Hemingway. She appeared briefly as Lillie Langtry at the end of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), and in The Blue Bird (1976). Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married for 1 year. David Hanna and Ava Gardner had an encounter in 1954. Recalls, Gift Ava Gardner tells all about Mickey Rooney Ava Gardner had encounters with Robert Stack (1969), Kirk Douglas (1963), Peter Duchin (1962), Peter O'Toole (1960), Sydney Guilaroff (1959), Johnny Stompanato (1958), Anthony Franciosa (1958), Jess Conrad (1958), Peter Viertel (1958), Ernest Hemingway (1957), Ralph Kiner (1956), Vic Damone (1955), Steve McQueen (1955), Billy Daniels (1954), Luis Miguel Domingun (1954), David Hanna (1954), Rossano Brazzi (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1954), Fernando Lamas (1952), John F. Kennedy (1952), Farley Granger (1951), Paul Brooks (1951), Curro Girn (1951), Robert Mitchum (1949), Van Heflin (1949), Peter Lawford (1949), Charles K. Feldman (1949), Mickey Cohen (1948), Huntington Hartford (1948), Greg Bautzer (1947), Irving Reis (1947), Turhan Bey (1947), Frank Ryan (1947), Helmut Dantine (1947), Paul Bryan (1947), Porfirio Rubirosa (1946), John Carroll (1946), John Huston (1946), Joseph M. Schenck (1944), Mervyn LeRoy (1944), Fred MacMurray (1944), Alexander D'Arcy (1944), David Remar (1943), Earl Muntz, Mel Torm, Dick Cowell, Bugsy Siegel and Jorge Guinle.