Ava Gardner Quotes

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

Ava Gardner

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• I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Money
  • Slavery
  • Layoff