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Ava Gardner is a Actor American born on 24 december 1922 at North Carolina (USA)
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.
She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953).
She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990 at the age of 67.
She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney. They married on January 10, 1942, when she was 19 years old and he was 21. The ceremony was held in the remote town of Ballard, California, because MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer was worried that fans would desert Rooney's Andy Hardy movie series if it became known that their star was married. Largely due to Rooney's serial adultery, Gardner divorced him in 1943, but agreed not to reveal the cause so as not to affect his career.
Gardner's second marriage was brief as well, to jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946. Shaw had previously been married to Lana Turner. Gardner's third and last marriage was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra, from 1951 to 1957. She would later say in her autobiography that he was the love of her life. Sinatra left his wife, Nancy, for Gardner and their subsequent marriage made headlines.
Sinatra was blasted by gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the Hollywood establishment, the Roman Catholic Church, and by his fans for leaving his wife for a noted femme fatale. Gardner used her considerable influence, particularly with Harry Cohn, to get Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in From Here to Eternity (1953). That role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers.
The Gardner–Sinatra marriage was tumultuous. Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that “With him [Frank] it’s impossible...it’s like being with a woman. He’s so gentle. It’s as though he thinks I’ll break, as though I’m a piece of Dresden china and he’s gonna hurt me.” During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies. "MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies," she said. She said years later, "We couldn't even take care of ourselves. How were we going to take care of a baby?" Gardner remained good friends with Sinatra for the remainder of her life.
Relationships
Gardner became a friend of businessman and aviator Howard Hughes in the early- to mid-1940s, and the relationship lasted into the 1950s. Gardner stated in her autobiography, Ava: My Story, that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years. Hughes's trust in Gardner was what kept their relationship alive. She describes him as "painfully shy, completely enigmatic and more eccentric...than anyone [she] had ever met."
After Gardner divorced Sinatra in 1957, she headed for Spain, where she began a friendship with writer Ernest Hemingway (she had starred in his The Sun Also Rises that year, and several years earlier, Hemingway had successfully urged producer Darryl F. Zanuck to cast Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, a film which adapted several of his short stories). While staying with Hemingway at his villa in San Francisco de Paula in Havana, Cuba, Gardner once swam alone without a swimsuit in his pool. After watching her, Hemingway ordered to his staff: "The water is not to be emptied". Her friendship with Hemingway led to her becoming a fan of bullfighting and bullfighters, such as Luis Miguel Dominguín, who became her lover. "It was a sort of madness, honey", she later said of the time.
Gardner was also involved in a relationship with her live-in boyfriend and companion, American actor Benjamin Tatar, who worked in Spain as a foreign-language dubbing director. Tatar later wrote an autobiography in which he discussed his relationship with Gardner, though the book was never published.
Death
After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema, as well as an unidentified auto-immune disorder. Two strokes in 1986 left her partially paralyzed and bedridden. Although Gardner could afford her medical expenses, Sinatra wanted to pay for her visit to a specialist in the United States, and she allowed him to make the arrangements for a medically staffed private plane. She suffered a bad fall a week before she died, and she lay on the floor, alone and unable to move, until her housekeeper returned. Her last words (to her housekeeper) were reportedly "I'm so tired". She died of pneumonia at the age of 67, at her London home, 34 Ennismore Gardens, where she had lived since 1968.
Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonas (1878–1938) and Mollie Gardner (1883–1943). The town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner Museum.
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Ava Gardner
Birth name Ava Lavinia Gardner
Nationality USA
Birth 24 december 1922 at North Carolina (USA)
Death 25 january 1990 (at 67 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 december 1922 at North Carolina (USA)
Death 25 january 1990 (at 67 years) at London (United-kingdom)
She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953).
She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990 at the age of 67.
She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Biography
MarriagesSoon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney. They married on January 10, 1942, when she was 19 years old and he was 21. The ceremony was held in the remote town of Ballard, California, because MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer was worried that fans would desert Rooney's Andy Hardy movie series if it became known that their star was married. Largely due to Rooney's serial adultery, Gardner divorced him in 1943, but agreed not to reveal the cause so as not to affect his career.
Gardner's second marriage was brief as well, to jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946. Shaw had previously been married to Lana Turner. Gardner's third and last marriage was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra, from 1951 to 1957. She would later say in her autobiography that he was the love of her life. Sinatra left his wife, Nancy, for Gardner and their subsequent marriage made headlines.
Sinatra was blasted by gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the Hollywood establishment, the Roman Catholic Church, and by his fans for leaving his wife for a noted femme fatale. Gardner used her considerable influence, particularly with Harry Cohn, to get Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in From Here to Eternity (1953). That role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers.
The Gardner–Sinatra marriage was tumultuous. Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that “With him [Frank] it’s impossible...it’s like being with a woman. He’s so gentle. It’s as though he thinks I’ll break, as though I’m a piece of Dresden china and he’s gonna hurt me.” During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies. "MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies," she said. She said years later, "We couldn't even take care of ourselves. How were we going to take care of a baby?" Gardner remained good friends with Sinatra for the remainder of her life.
Relationships
Gardner became a friend of businessman and aviator Howard Hughes in the early- to mid-1940s, and the relationship lasted into the 1950s. Gardner stated in her autobiography, Ava: My Story, that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years. Hughes's trust in Gardner was what kept their relationship alive. She describes him as "painfully shy, completely enigmatic and more eccentric...than anyone [she] had ever met."
After Gardner divorced Sinatra in 1957, she headed for Spain, where she began a friendship with writer Ernest Hemingway (she had starred in his The Sun Also Rises that year, and several years earlier, Hemingway had successfully urged producer Darryl F. Zanuck to cast Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, a film which adapted several of his short stories). While staying with Hemingway at his villa in San Francisco de Paula in Havana, Cuba, Gardner once swam alone without a swimsuit in his pool. After watching her, Hemingway ordered to his staff: "The water is not to be emptied". Her friendship with Hemingway led to her becoming a fan of bullfighting and bullfighters, such as Luis Miguel Dominguín, who became her lover. "It was a sort of madness, honey", she later said of the time.
Gardner was also involved in a relationship with her live-in boyfriend and companion, American actor Benjamin Tatar, who worked in Spain as a foreign-language dubbing director. Tatar later wrote an autobiography in which he discussed his relationship with Gardner, though the book was never published.
Death
After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema, as well as an unidentified auto-immune disorder. Two strokes in 1986 left her partially paralyzed and bedridden. Although Gardner could afford her medical expenses, Sinatra wanted to pay for her visit to a specialist in the United States, and she allowed him to make the arrangements for a medically staffed private plane. She suffered a bad fall a week before she died, and she lay on the floor, alone and unable to move, until her housekeeper returned. Her last words (to her housekeeper) were reportedly "I'm so tired". She died of pneumonia at the age of 67, at her London home, 34 Ennismore Gardens, where she had lived since 1968.
Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonas (1878–1938) and Mollie Gardner (1883–1943). The town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner Museum.
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Filmography of Ava Gardner (76 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Chavela Vargas | Actress | Herself (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Actress | Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage) |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | Actress | (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Harem | Actress | Kadin |
| 1985 | A.D. (miniseries) | Actress | Agrippina |
| 1985 | The Long Hot Summer | Actress | Minnie Littlejohn |
| 1982 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Actress | (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Regina Roma | Actress | Mama |
| 1981 | Priest of Love | Actress | Mabel Dodge Luhan |
| 1980 | The Kidnapping of the President | Actress | Beth Richards |
| 1979 | City on Fire | Actress | Maggie Grayson |
| 1977 | The Sentinel | Actress | Helen Logan |
| 1976 | The Blue Bird | Actress | Luxury |
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Actress | Nicole Dressler |
| 1975 | Permission to Kill | Actress | Katina Petersen |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | Actress | (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Earthquake | Actress | Remy Royce-Graff |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Actress | Lily Langtry |
| 1970 | Tam Lin | Actress | Michaela Cazaret |
| 1968 | Mayerling | Actress | Empress Elisabeth of Austria |
| 1966 | The Bible: In the Beginning... | Actress | Sarah |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Actress | Maxine Faulk |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | Actress | Eleanor Holbrook |
| 1963 | 55 Days at Peking | Actress | Baroness Natalie Ivanoff |
| 1963 | La Rabbia | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 1960 | The Angel Wore Red | Actress | Soledad |
| 1959 | On the Beach | Actress | Moira Davidson |
| 1958 | The Naked Maja | Actress | Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana |
| 1957 | The Sun Also Rises | Actress | Lady Brett Ashley |
| 1957 | The Little Hut | Actress | Lady Susan Ashlow |
| 1956 | Bhowani Junction | Actress | Victoria Jones |
| 1954 | Knights of the Round Table | Actress | Guinevere |
| 1954 | The Barefoot Contessa | Actress | Maria Vargas |
| 1953 | Mogambo | Actress | Eloise Y. Kelly |
| 1953 | The Band Wagon | Actress | Ava Gardner (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Ride, Vaquero! | Actress | Cordelia Cameron |
| 1952 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Actress | Cynthia Green |
| 1952 | Lone Star | Actress | Martha Ronda |
| 1951 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Actress | Pandora Reynolds |
| 1951 | Show Boat | Actress | Julie LaVerne |
| 1951 | My Forbidden Past | Actress | Barbara Beaurevel |
| 1949 | East Side, West Side | Actress | Isabel Lorrison |
| 1949 | The Bribe | Actress | Elizabeth Hintten |
| 1949 | The Great Sinner | Actress | Pauline Ostrovsky |
| 1948 | One Touch of Venus | Actress | Venus |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Actress | Jean Ogilvie |
| 1947 | Singapore | Actress | Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden |
| 1946 | Whistle Stop | Actress | Mary |
| 1946 | The Killers | Actress | Kitty Collins |
| 1945 | She Went to the Races | Actress | Hilda Spotts |
| 1944 | Two Girls and a Sailor | Actress | Dream Girl (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Blonde Fever | Actress | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Maisie Goes to Reno | Actress | Gloria Fullerton |
| 1944 | Music for Millions | Actress | |
| 1944 | 3 Men in White | Actress | Jean Brown |
| 1944 | 3 Men in White | Actress | Jean Brown |
| 1943 | Du Barry was a Lady | Actress | Perfume Girl (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Ghosts on the Loose | Actress | Betty |
| 1943 | Hitler's Madman | Actress | Franciska Pritric (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Lost Angel | Actress | Hat Check Girl (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Pilot #5 | Actress | |
| 1943 | Swing Fever | Actress | Receptionist (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Young Ideas | Actress | Co-ed (uncredited) |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Actress | |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Actress | Marie - Salesgirl (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Kid Glove Killer | Actress | Car Hop (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Mighty Lak a Goat | Actress | Girl at Theatre Boxoffice |
| 1942 | Sunday Punch | Actress | Ringsider (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Calling Dr. Gillespie | Actress | Student (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Joe Smith, American | Actress | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Joe Smith, American | Actress | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| 1942 | This Time for Keeps | Actress | Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Shadow of the Thin Man | Actress | Passerby at Racetrack (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Babes on Broadway | Actress | Pitt-Astor Girl |
| 1941 | H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Actress | Young Socialite (uncredited) |