Images from the late 1940s, when they apparently began their affair at a Palm Springs party, to the mid-1950s ... “I adore Ava Gardner – she’s a total shirting icon,” says Pip Durell ...

Ava Gardner was a silver-screen legend with a wild ... night drunken drive from Palm Springs to Indio after they ditched a party they were both attending to shoot out streetlights and store ...