Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Of that, I am sure. In her time, which was the 1940s and 1950s, Hollywood had other stunning women, but none had Gardner’s sass, her exuberant sex appeal, and breasts that the movie industry’s hallway monitor, known as the Breen Office, considered downright subversive. For the movie Mogambo, the theme of which was adultery, Joseph I. Breen had significant objections, but the very first item of concern he raised in a letter to MGM was “a bad breast shot of Ava Gardner.” As Gardner herself could attest, there was no such thing. “I was beautiful,” she said of herself.
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