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
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
as Sarah
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
as Nicole Dressler
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
Earthquake (1974)
as Remy Royce-Graff
55 Days at Peking (1963)
as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
On the Beach (1959)
as Moira Davidson
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
as Maria Vargas
The Sentinel (1977)
as Helen Logan
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
as Maxine Faulk
Mayerling (1968)
as Empress Elisabeth of Austria
The Killers (1946)
as Kitty Collins
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
as Cynthia Green
Seven Days in May (1964)
as Eleanor Holbrook
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
as Lily Langtry
The Band Wagon (1953)
as Ava Gardner (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
as Guinevere
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
as Passerby at Racetrack (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Show Boat (1951)
as Julie LaVerne
The Blue Bird (1976)
as Luxury
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
as Lady Brett Ashley
Mogambo (1953)
as Eloise Y. Kelly
Lone Star (1952)
as Martha Ronda
Regina Roma (1982)
as Mama
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
as Perfume Girl (uncredited)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
as Dream Girl (uncredited)
Legends of the West (1992)
as Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
as Pandora Reynolds
The Naked Maja (1958)
as Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana
Swing Fever (1943)
as Receptionist (uncredited)
Whistle Stop (1946)
as Mary
Reunion in France (1942)
as Marie, Parisian shopgirl (uncredited)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
as Cordelia Cameron
City on Fire (1979)
as Maggie Grayson
The Great Sinner (1949)
as Pauline Ostrovsky
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical (2009)
as Self (archive)
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Priest of Love (1981)
as Mabel Dodge Luhan
One Touch of Venus (1948)
as Venus
Harem (1986)
as Kadin
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)
as Michaela Cazaret
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Bhowani Junction (1956)
as Victoria Jones
My Forbidden Past (1951)
as Barbara Beaurevel
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
as Car Hop (uncredited)
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000)
as archive footage
The Hucksters (1947)
as Jean Ogilvie
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
as Soledad
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
as Young Socialite (uncredited)
Singapore (1947)
as Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden
East Side, West Side (1949)
as Isabel Lorrison
La Rabbia (1963)
as Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)
Fancy Answers (1941)
as Girl at Recital
Hitler's Madman (1943)
as Franciska Pritric (uncredited)
Chavela (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Costume Designer (1950)
as Self (archive footage)
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)
as Self - Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba (archive footage)
Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
as Betty
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Little Hut (1957)
as Lady Susan Ashlow
Maggie (1986)
as Diane Webb
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
as Beth Richards
Beautiful Like a Poem (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Joe Smith, American (1942)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Bribe (1949)
as Elizabeth Hintten
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
as Gloria Fullerton
Permission to Kill (1975)
as Katina Petersen
Sunday Punch (1942)
as Ringsider (uncredited)
This Time for Keeps (1942)
as Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
Lost Angel (1943)
as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
She Went to the Races (1945)
as Hilda Spotts
Young Ideas (1943)
as Co-ed (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
as Student (uncredited)
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
We Do It Because (1942)
as Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
Blonde Fever (1944)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
3 Men in White (1944)
as Jean Brown
Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
On the Trail of the Iguana (1964)
as Self
I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945)
as Dream Girl (uncredited)
Fallout (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
De Madrid a la Luna (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Mighty Lak a Goat (1942)
as Girl at Theatre Boxoffice
Året var 1953 (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Strange Testament (1941)
as Waitress (uncredited)
All Night Long (2010)
as Self (archive footage)