It’s very liberating to take off that psychological corset,” the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star ...

McGovern’s got a sadder and sweeter aura than Gardner, or at least than the constructed fatale character that Hollywood cast ...

Broadway play and cast herself against type as Ava Gardner, re-creating that Hollywood performer’s late-in-life meetings with ...

Elizabeth McGovern must have felt the same way as a lovely, ambitious, aspiring newcomer eager to make her own mark on the ...

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.” ...

Elizabeth McGovern, known for her role in "Downton Abbey," has written a play about Ava Gardner. The play, titled "Ava: The Secret Conversations," explores Gardner's relationship with journalist ...

The actress wrote and stars in a new play based on the never-quite-released memoir of Hollywood legend Ava Gardner.

The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern just made its New York premiere at NY City Center, Stage ...

Elizabeth McGovern is fired up when she talks about Ava Gardner, whom the Downton Abbey star portrays in a stage show that hits New York next week.

For all of Elizabeth McGovern's acting career, someone else wrote her lines. The “Downton Abbey” star pivots from British aristocracy to classic Hollywood royalty this summer to portray screen ...