Ava Gardner: Great Sluts of History

“If I had my life to live over again, I’d live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I’ve enjoyed my life. I’ve had a hell of a good time.”

I don’t know what they carved on her tombstone, but Ava Lavinia Gardner did indeed have a hell of a good time in her life.

Born on December 24, 1922 (she later made pointed remarks about that Jesus Christ person trying to steal her birthday), the youngest of seven children to poor cotton and tobacco farmers, her ancestry included Scots-Irish, English…