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Ava Gardner (1922–1990)

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Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in- law's New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM... See full bio »

Born:

Ava Lavinia Gardner
in Grabtown, North Carolina, USA

Died:

(age 67) in Westminster, London, England, UK
Ava Gardner circa 1945 Still of Richard Burton and Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana Still of Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in Mogambo Still of Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa Still of Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa Ava Gardner C. 1952, **I.V.
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1986 Maggie (TV movie)
Diane Webb
 
1986 Harem (TV movie)
Kadin
 
1985 The Long Hot Summer (TV movie)
Minnie Littlejohn
 
1985 Knots Landing (TV series)
Ruth Galveston / Ruth Sumner Galveston
– Vulnerable (1985) … Ruth Galveston
– One Day in a Row (1985) … Ruth Galveston
– A Price to Pay (1985) … Ruth Galveston
– Four, No Trump (1985) … Ruth Galveston
– The Forest for the Trees (1985) … Ruth Sumner Galveston
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1985 A.D. (TV mini-series)
Agrippina
– Part 5 (1985) … Agrippina
– Part 4 (1985) … Agrippina
– Part 3 (1985) … Agrippina
– Part 2 (1985) … Agrippina
– Part 1 (1985) … Agrippina
 
1982 Regina Roma
Mama
 
1981 Priest of Love
Mabel Dodge Luhan
 
1980 The Kidnapping of the President
Beth Richards
 
1979 City on Fire
Maggie Grayson
 
1977 The Sentinel
Miss Logan
 
1976 The Cassandra Crossing
Nicole
 
1976 The Blue Bird
Luxury
 
1975 The Executioner
Katina Petersen
 
1974 Earthquake
Remy Graff
 
1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Lily Langtry
 
1970 The Devil's Widow
Michaela Cazaret
 
1968 Mayerling
Empress Elizabeth
 
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning...
Sarah
 
1964 The Night of the Iguana
Maxine Faulk
 
1964 Seven Days in May
Eleanor Holbrook
 
1963 55 Days at Peking
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
 
1960 The Angel Wore Red
Soledad
 
1959 On the Beach
Moira Davidson
 
1958 The Naked Maja
Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba
 
1957 The Sun Also Rises
Lady Brett Ashley
 
1957 The Little Hut
Lady Susan Ashlow
 
1956 Bhowani Junction
Victoria Jones
 
1954 The Barefoot Contessa
Maria Vargas
 
1953 Knights of the Round Table
Guinevere
 
1953 Mogambo
Eloise Y. Kelly
 
1953 Ride, Vaquero!
Cordelia Cameron
 
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Cynthia Green
 
1952 Lone Star
Martha Ronda
 
1951 Show Boat
Julie LaVerne
 
1951 My Forbidden Past
Barbara Beaurevel
 
1951 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora Reynolds
 
1949 East Side, West Side
Isabel Lorrison
 
1949 The Great Sinner
Pauline Ostrovsky
 
1949 The Bribe
Elizabeth Hintten
 
1948 One Touch of Venus
Venus
 
1947 Singapore
Linda Grahame/Ann Van Leyden
 
1947 The Hucksters
Jean Ogilvie
 
1946 The Killers
Kitty Collins
 
1946 Whistle Stop
Mary
 
1945 She Went to the Races
Hilda Spotts
 
1944 Blonde Fever
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1944 Maisie Goes to Reno
Gloria Fullerton
 
1944 3 Men in White
Jean Brown
 
1944 Two Girls and a Sailor
Dream Girl (uncredited)
 
1943 Lost Angel
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
 
1943 Swing Fever
Receptionist (uncredited)
 
1943 Young Ideas
Co-ed (uncredited)
 
1943 Ghosts on the Loose
Betty
 
1943 Hitler's Madman
Franciska Pritric (uncredited)
 
1943 Du Barry Was a Lady
Perfume Girl (uncredited)
 
1942 Reunion in France
Marie - Salesgirl (uncredited)
 
1942 Mighty Lak a Goat (short)
Girl at the Bijou box office
 
1942 Calling Dr. Gillespie
Graduating Student at Miss Hope's (uncredited)
 
1942 Sunday Punch
Ringsider (uncredited)
 
1942 Kid Glove Killer
Car Hop (uncredited)
 
1942 This Time for Keeps
Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
 
1942 Joe Smith, American
Miss Maynard, Secretary (uncredited)
 
1942 We Do It Because- (short)
Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)
 
1941 Babes on Broadway
Audience Member (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
 
1941 H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Young Socialite (uncredited)
 
1941 Shadow of the Thin Man
Passerby (uncredited)
 
1941 Strange Testament (short)
Waitress (uncredited)
 
1941 Fancy Answers (short)
Girl at Recital (uncredited)
 
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1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (performer: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1927 - uncredited)
 
1953 Mogambo (performer: "COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE" - uncredited)
 
1951 Show Boat (performer: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1927 - uncredited, "Bill" 1927 - uncredited)
 
1951 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (performer: "How Am I to Know?" - uncredited)
 
1949 The Bribe (performer: "Situation Wanted")
 
1948 One Touch of Venus (performer: "Speak Low" - uncredited, "That's Him" - uncredited / "Don't Look Now But My Heart is Showing" - uncredited)
 
1947 The Hucksters (performer: "Don't Tell Me" - uncredited)
 
1946 The Killers (performer: "The More I Know of Love" 1946)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2011 Special Collector's Edition (TV series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
– 55 días en Pekín (2011) (in memory of)
 
Show ShowSelf (11 titles)
1983 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Huston (TV special)
Herself
 
1974 ABC Late Night (TV series)
Herself
– That's Entertainment! 50 Years of MGM (1974) … Herself
 
1974 Just One More Time (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1970 Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (TV movie)
Herself
 
1968 The Monkees (TV series)
Herself
– Monkees Blow Their Minds (1968) … Herself (uncredited)
 
1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1964 On the Trail of the Iguana (documentary short)
Herself
 
1953 What's My Line? (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 13 September 1953 (1953) … Herself
 
1953 The Band Wagon
Herself (uncredited)
 
1950 Screen Actors (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (31 titles)
2001-2012 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
2012 Out of My Dreams: Oscar Hammerstein II (TV documentary)
Julie La Verne
 
2010 All Night Long (documentary)
Herself
 
2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (documentary)
Pandora Reynolds/Maria Vargas
 
2010 50 años de (TV series)
 
2009 Muchachada nui (TV series)
 
2008 Il falso bugiardo
Herself
 
2008 Spisok korabley (documentary)
 
2006 La imagen de tu vida (TV series)
 
2006 De Madrid a la Lluna (documentary)
Herself
 
2005 50 y más (TV movie)
 
2004 History vs. Hollywood (TV series documentary)
 
2004 Bozhestvennaya Glikeriya (documentary)
 
2003 Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary)
Herself
 
2001 The Making of 'Midway' (video documentary short)
Remy Graff (scene from "Earthquake")
 
1999 The Rat Pack (TV series documentary)
Herself
 
1998 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Classified X (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Performer in Clip from 'Show Boat' (uncredited)
 
1993 The Knots Landing Block Party (TV special documentary)
Ruth Sumner Galveston (uncredited)
 
1992 Crazy About the Movies: Ava Gardner (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1992 Legends of the West (documentary)
Actress in 'Judge Roy Bean' (uncredited)
 
1990 Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1988 The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (video documentary)
Herself
 
1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Killers"/"The Bribe")
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary)
Herself - at Banquet/Clip from 1951 version of 'Show Boat'
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1963 La rabbia (documentary)
Herself
 
1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1950 The Costume Designer (documentary short)
 

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Whistle Stop -- When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman -- In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate... The Snows of Kilimanjaro -- Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(2/11/52)Radio episode: Lux Radio Theater, ep. "Showboat". See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 17 Print Biographies  | 3 Interviews  | 28 Articles  | 7 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, N.C. | See more »

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I have only one rule in acting -- trust the director and give him heart and soul. See more »

Trivia:

The production designer John Hawkesworth, an Englishman who was the set designer of her movie Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, said about Gardner that she "could eat twice as much as anyone, and drink three times as much.". See more »

Trademark:

Dimpled chin and high cheekbones See more »

Nickname:

Snowdrop See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn