Once described as “having a mouth like a truck driver and the looks of a goddess”, thrice married American actress Ava Gardner spent her final years in Knightsbridge’s Ennismore Gardens. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, this cotton and tobacco famer’s daughter turned international icon once stated: “I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other” but sadly succumbed to pneumonia aged just 67.
