Meareane Jordan: the maid who kept Ava Gardner's secrets

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Once she achieved stardom with

(1946) and

(1948), Ava Gardner became one of the most desired actresses by that engulfing machine called Hollywood.

Aware that finding a person of her complete confidence was very complicated because

spoke with the gossip Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the diva did not give up on her efforts.

When the actress's second marriage to musician Artie Shaw began to fall apart, her maid at the time, Tressie, recommended one of her sisters, Mearene, Rene, Jordan.

The young African-American woman recorded her conversations with Ava in the book

G.

(Ed. Notorious), which was finally published when Mearene

and which has recently gone on sale in our country.

Mearene had left her mother's home at the age of 16 with the intention of carving out a better future for herself, since at that time being black meant being a zero to the left.

After moving from St. Louis to Chicago, she finally settled in Los Angeles because there were many more opportunities.

Until 1946 she worked in a sewing factory.

From that year she began her fantasy universe together with the most beautiful animal in the world.

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Mearene resided in a boarding house.

There she received a call from Ava. She had moved into a new apartment and she wanted to start a new life after her divorce.

From that moment on, Mearene began calling the actress

, a nickname she used until the protagonist of

(1954) died in 1990.

Ava and Mearine were the same age - they were born in 1922 - and they immediately bonded.

One of the first secrets that Mearene kept was the affair that her lady had with Fred MacMurray, with whom she was shooting A Life and a Love (1947) and who was called Mr. Norton to avoid gossip.

The two were dazzled by

, one of the biggest British stars who never stopped advising young Ava to improve her diction by reading her excerpts from the Bible or works by Shakespeare.

The same was the case with Gregory Peck, who encouraged Ava to have confidence in her talent and to cultivate it.

That was one of Peck's great virtues, which through his generosity ended up elevating more actresses, such as

in

(1953) as she convinced the producers that this young girl of Belgian origin had great potential, so her name had to appear before his.

Little by little, Ava Gardner gained confidence, strength, and emotional intelligence when choosing her roles.

There are

(1951),

(1953) or

(1964).

While billionaire

tried to win over the star with expensive gifts with the intention of getting married, Frank Sinatra appeared on the scene, who was still married to his wife Nancy, whom he was unfaithful to with Lana Turner.

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Fate put things in their place and Ava and Frank were married in 1951. Throughout the six years that their marriage lasted, drunkenness, jealousy and partying were the daily bread.

On the set of Pandora on the Costa Brava she had an affair with former bullfighter and actor Mario Cabré, "whom

and publicity for her," she wrote Mearene.

In those crazy years, Ava herself became pregnant by the singer three times, but she did not want to have them.

She miscarried.

"She had no maternal instinct and a baby could put her out of a job."

The busiest time for both of them took place while they lived in Madrid between 1953 and 1967. Her romance with

still gives people something to talk about, but despite the sorrows "he was a man with great charm and charisma who always enjoyed the Ava's company.

Obsessed with Spanish culture, Mearene confesses that Ava hired a private Spanish teacher and began to learn sevillanas, which caused her more than one problem when she partyed in her apartment in El Viso.

Her neighbor below her was General Perón, who on more than one occasion knocked on her door to complain about the revelry.

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