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