Books like Ava Gardner

I found this book very interesting but mainly wrote this as a rebuttal to the review of Tara, who said that she was "average," a "crybaby," and "never had to work for anything." All of these descriptions are patently untrue."Average?" A look at any picture of her belies this shallow and in my opinion jealous assessment. I'm especially talking about her glorious beauty in her younger years when she had the longer hair---around the times of her marriages to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw and the movies Whistle Stop and The Killers."Crybaby." I fail to see how she was ever a whiner or crybaby about anything. That isn't her personality as shown in this book and others, like her autobiography. This was a woman who took even a stroke that inhibited the use of her arm with aplomb, referring to the affected arm as a "(expletive") that she had to carry around. Crybaby? No.Last, I don't understand how one can claim that she never had to work for anything. She was born into a lower-middle-class family in North Carolina, always felt that she wasn't truly educated, and rose from her background to the pinnacle of Hollywood success, even getting an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Mogambo. She certainly worked hard on her films.I read this book many years ago, it's on my bookshelf with many other much-loved biographies of movie queens from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and I found the review from Tara so egregious that this is my response.