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"Ava Gardner\nThe Oscar-Nominated Star of Mogambo Creates a Hillside Hideaway in Los Angeles\nAfter moving to Los Angeles in 1941 as an MGM contract player, Ava Gardner lived in apartments and in houses she shared with her husbands, first Mickey Rooney and then Artie Shaw. The Nichols Canyon cottage she purchased in 1948 was the first home she owned.\nWhen Movieland magazine visited the actress in 1949, the writer reported that Gardner, opting for a room-by-room approach to decorating, was finishing the living room, where she painted the walls yellow, added a gray carpet and selected blond-wood \"modern\" furniture.\nGardner's pink-stucco house, the Movieland feature noted, fit all of her requirements: It was inexpensive, close to the movie studios, on a sun-soaked hill and \"had a touch of wilderness about it,\" a reminder of her roots in rural Grabtown, North Carolina.\nAva Gardner on her porch.\nThe actress in her bedroom, near a Degas print and family photos. Despite these touches, she never felt comfortable in Hollywood. By 1955 she had moved to Spain, where, she revealed in her 1990 autobiography, \"for the first time since I'd left North Carolina, I felt I was home.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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