Ava Gardner
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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Considered one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, she was ranked as the 25th greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute. Initially cast in minor roles, her breakthrough came with the classic film noir The Killers (1946), which established her as a leading lady. Her career flourished in the 1950s with notable performances in films like Mogambo (1953), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), and The Night of the Iguana (1964), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. Off-screen, Gardner's personal life and progressive politics attracted significant attention. Her marriages to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw were gossiped about, but her tumultuous relationship with Frank Sinatra particularly headlined. Gardner was a strong supporter of racial equality and desegregation, and became a member of the NAACP in 1968. Gardner was a heavy smoker, which deteriorated her health as she grew older. She continued acting in minor roles in the 1980s before she suffered a stroke in 1986 and retired. Gardner moved to Spain and England, where she spent her final years before passing away from bronchopneumonia on January 25, 1990.
Known for
Credits
Earthquake (1974)
as Remy Royce-Graff
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
as Sarah
55 Days at Peking (1963)
as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
The Sentinel (1977)
as Helen Logan
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
as Nicole Dressler
On the Beach (1959)
as Moira Davidson
The Killers (1946)
as Kitty Collins
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
as Maxine Faulk
Mayerling (1968)
as Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Seven Days in May (1964)
as Eleanor Holbrook
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
as Maria Vargas
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
as Lily Langtry
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
The Band Wagon (1953)
as Ava Gardner (uncredited)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
as Cynthia Green
Mogambo (1953)
as Eloise Y. Kelly
Priest of Love (1981)
as Mabel Dodge Luhan
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Show Boat (1951)
as Julie LaVerne
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
City on Fire (1979)
as Maggie Grayson
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
as Lady Brett Ashley
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
as Passerby at Racetrack (uncredited)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)
Lone Star (1952)
as Martha Ronda
The Blue Bird (1976)
as Luxury
The Great Sinner (1949)
as Pauline Ostrovsky
Whistle Stop (1946)
as Mary
La Rabbia (1963)
as Self (archive footage)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
as Cordelia Cameron
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Regina Roma (1982)
as Mama
Swing Fever (1943)
as Receptionist (uncredited)
Harem (1986)
as Kadin
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
as Pandora Reynolds
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
as Guinevere
Lost Angel (1943)
as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
The Hucksters (1947)
as Jean Ogilvie
Bhowani Junction (1956)
as Victoria Jones
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
The Naked Maja (1958)
as Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana
The Little Hut (1957)
as Lady Susan Ashlow
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
as Perfume Girl (uncredited)
Reunion in France (1942)
as Marie, Parisian shopgirl (uncredited)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
as Dream Girl (uncredited)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Singapore (1947)
as Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden
My Forbidden Past (1951)
as Barbara Beaurevel
One Touch of Venus (1948)
as Venus
Hitler's Madman (1943)
as Franciska Pritric (uncredited)
East Side, West Side (1949)
as Isabel Lorrison
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)
as Self - Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009)
as Self (archive)
Sunday Punch (1942)
as Ringsider (uncredited)
Chavela (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)
as Michaela Cazaret
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
as Soledad
Legends of the West (1992)
as Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joe Smith, American (1942)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
as Betty
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
as Young Socialite (uncredited)
The Bribe (1949)
as Elizabeth Hintten
We Do It Because (1942)
as Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)
Maggie (1986)
as Diane Webb
Fancy Answers (1941)
as Girl at Recital
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
as Car Hop (uncredited)
On the Trail of the Iguana (1964)
as Self
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
as Gloria Fullerton
This Time for Keeps (1942)
as Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
as Student (uncredited)
Beautiful Like a Poem (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Permission to Kill (1975)
as Katina Petersen
Young Ideas (1943)
as Co-ed (uncredited)
3 Men in White (1944)
as Jean Brown
She Went to the Races (1945)
as Hilda Spotts
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
as Beth Richards
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000)
as archive footage
Fallout (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
The Costume Designer (1950)
as Self (archive footage)
Blonde Fever (1944)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Strange Testament (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
Mighty Lak a Goat (1942)
as Girl at Theatre Boxoffice
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
All Night Long (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1953 (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945)
as Dream Girl (uncredited)
De Madrid a la Luna (2006)
as Self (archive footage)