CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in.

Elizabeth McGovern plays Ava Gardner. Aaron Costa Ganis plays the journalist she enlisted to write her story.

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Gardner hired Peter Evans to write her biography.

But he came from the tabloids, and Gardner didn't want to "tell all" and fired him.

"We start the play where she's just basically had a stroke, and she needs to very literally pay the mortgage on her apartment in London," Costa Ganis said. "You're meeting her after her prime in a way, and after the cameras have sort of like moved away. And then you're saying, 'so now what?' She's asking the same qu

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