Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in John Ford's Mogambo (1953), and for best actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana (1964). She was a part of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
During the 1950s, Gardner established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like Show Boat, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (both 1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956) and On the Beach (1959). She continued her film career for three more decades, appearing in the films 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Mayerling (1968), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). And in 1985, she had the major recurring role of Ruth Galveston on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. She continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in 1990, at the age of 67.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gardner No. 25 on its greatest female screen legends list.[1]
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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared...
The AvaGardner Museum is a museum dedicated to American actress AvaGardner. Located in downtown Smithfield, North Carolina, the museum holds an extensive...
photographs of AvaGardner in a magazine and had sworn that he would marry her. Ruth Rosenthal, a friend of Gardner's, stated that Gardner initially detested...
adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, AvaGardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. Shot on location in Equatorial...
Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and AvaGardner. Gable died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59. William Clark...
had fallen ill. Both men were uncredited. It stars Charlton Heston, AvaGardner, and David Niven, with supporting roles by Flora Robson, John Ireland...
and biblical drama David and Bathsheba (1951). He starred alongside AvaGardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday...
based on legend of the Flying Dutchman. The film stars James Mason and AvaGardner in the title roles, with Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender...
fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It stars Humphrey Bogart, AvaGardner, and Edmond O'Brien. The plot focuses on social positioning and high-powered...
directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, AvaGardner, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson about...
with AvaGardner and the destruction of his marriage to Nancy, though he insisted that his marriage had long been over even before he met Gardner. In April...
inability to stay married. In 1942, he married his first wife, actress AvaGardner, who at that time was still an obscure teenaged starlet. They divorced...
nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play). Harden played actress AvaGardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the 1992 made-for-TV miniseries...
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