CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" just opened to rave reviews, starring Elizabeth McGovern at the Studebaker Theater.

The Evanston native plays one of the most compelling women to ever grace the movie screen, Ava Gardner.

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McGovern also wrote the play, and talked about this passion project.

Gardner was in her 60s and broke, when she asked writer Peter Evans to tell her story to get some cash.

And there was a lot to tell.

"The choices she made in her life were always so far ahead of herself in her kind of, her relationship with her own sexuality," McGovern said.

She was an independent woman, when it wasn't easy to be that.

"She was that without really thinking about it. In fact, I think she was quite conflicted a

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