In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but before long, Gardner was calling Evans in the middle of the night, ...

Elizabeth McGovern, the American actress best known for playing Lady Cora in the British TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” will star in a show headed to Chicago that is based series of real-life ...

When an aging movie goddess, Ava Gardner, asks a journalist to write her memoir in Elizabeth McGovern’s new play, “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” she is blunt about her motives: “I need the money.” ...