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