I’m not an actress
Michael Newton: Ava Gardner, 7 September 2006
“... other people’s reactions to her. She was reduced to an object, a thing of pure physicality. Al Altman, who made her screen-test, had seen enough starlets to know that a really beautiful woman was rare indeed, in fact a ‘freak’. The actor Howard Duff described her as the ‘most beautiful thing he had ever seen’. To others, she was ‘an extraordinary ... ”