Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner was born and raised in South Carolina. At the beginning of her career, her accent was so strong that people often had trouble understanding her on the West Coast. She was originally hired by MGM studios, where she worked as an actress for five years before getting her big break in the movie The Killers. Unfortunately, Ava lived a life of excess and bad habits, resulting in her developing emphysema and having two strokes that left her paralyzed in the late 1980s.