TRAFFIC ground to a halt in London Road in 1958 when Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner paid a whirlwind visit to East Grinstead.Famous as one of cinema's leading ladies, as well as for her tempestuous marriage to Frank Sinatra, the starlet was the guest of Sir Archibald and Lady McIndoe at their home, Millwood Manor.Huge crowds flocked to the Whitehall Cinema where Miss Gardner arrived in a maroon Rolls Royce to attend the Queen Victoria Hospital's nurses' fair.Dressed in a fitted black dress with...
