She comes of a farming family in North Carolina, and when she moved to Hollywood and was forced to live in cramped rooms with narrow openings, she longed always for a spacious house of her own, in whose broad garden she could practice what she had learned in her girlhood of the arts of gardening, and of keeping seeds until their planting time comes round...
... For two whole years Ava Gardner went on searching for this house, until her wish came true and she bought herself a
Ava Gardner arranging her beautiful bookcase.
pink house on the shoulder of a high hill, and moved into it with her refrigerator, her stove, and her maid. Her greatest pleasure lay in furnishing the various rooms and arranging them to harmonize with her personality and her own feminine temperament... considering, in all this, comfort before appearance...
Most of the rooms, yellow in color, look as though they were bathed in sunlight! — just like Ava's pure blonde hair.
Besides her surpassing beauty and her skill in acting, Ava is distinguished by her ripe taste in choosing her books and her collection of music; and when the need arises she is not incapable of carrying out all the tasks of the house, of every kind...
Ava Gardner hanging the beautiful pictures at the head of the room.