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