1945. Clarence Sinclair Bull, head of MGM’s stills department, with his thumb on the shutter-release button, looks intently at Ava Gardner. The year is 1945, Ava is 23 years old and has been in Hollywood for four years. The following year she will make her breakthrough, starring as Kitty Collins in The Killers. Here, she is vamping it up in a closely-fitted, black-satin evening dress and a heavy, jewel-encrusted bracelet and earrings.
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