Elizabeth McGovern, the American actress best known for playing Lady Cora in the British TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” will star in a show headed to Chicago that is based series of real-life ...

Known for her work in the ‘Downton Abbey’ series and movie adaptations, McGovern based this play on the book ‘Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations,’ culled from interviews conducted by a British ...

Many viewers are familiar with Elizabeth McGovern from her performance as Lady Cora Crawley in Downton Abbey—both the television show and its movie spin-offs, the last of which debuts this September.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The youngest of seven children, Ava spent her earliest years on a tobacco and cotton farm in what was then known as Grabtown. “If ...

The production is directed by Tony nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, whose Broadway work includes “Hand to God” and “Present Laughter.” It is produced by Karl Sydow. The show will also feature Aaron ...

The Golden Age of Cinema’s Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, ...

NEW YORK — For all of Elizabeth McGovern's acting career, someone else wrote her lines. Now it's her turn. The “Downton Abbey” star pivots from British aristocracy to classic Hollywood royalty this ...

Like Ava Gardner, the subject of the play she’s written and stars in, Elizabeth McGovern came to Hollywood at a young age, winning her breakout role in Robert Redford’s 1980 film version of Ordinary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but ...