Ava Gardner

Acting · 2.2 popularity

Age

103

Movies

Born: December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990
From: Grabtown, North Carolina, USA

Biography

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.

Works

93 films

Earthquake

19746.1

On the Beach

19596.7

The Cassandra Crossing

19766.3

The Bible: In the Beginning...

19667.3

55 Days at Peking

19636.9

The Sentinel

19776.1

The Night of the Iguana

19647.2

The Killers

19467.4

The Barefoot Contessa

19546.7

Mayerling

19686.2

Seven Days in May

19647.4

The Band Wagon

19537.2

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

19525.9

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

19726.5

Mogambo

19536.4

Show Boat

19516.2

The Naked Maja

19586.2

Lone Star

19525.7

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

19516.7

City on Fire

19795.1

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Knights of the Round Table

19536.0

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

The Blue Bird

19765.5

Two Girls and a Sailor

19445.8

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

20185.9

Shadow of the Thin Man

19417.0

The Sun Also Rises

19575.8

Legends of the West

1992

Swing Fever

19436.0

Du Barry Was a Lady

19436.5

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

19779.0

Fancy Answers

19417.0

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

The Costume Designer

195010.0

Priest of Love

19815.0

Whistle Stop

19464.4

Regina Roma

19827.0

Twenty Years After

19448.0

The Great Sinner

19496.8

One Touch of Venus

19486.7

The Hucksters

19477.0

Chavela

20176.9

Rat Pack

20229.0

Maisie Goes to Reno

19446.6

The Bribe

19496.3

Singapore

19476.1

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

The Ballad of Tam Lin

19705.1

The Kidnapping of the President

19804.6

Hitler's Madman

19435.5

Ghosts on the Loose

19434.2

Reunion in France

19426.4

We Do It Because

19426.5

Harem

19865.4

Bhowani Junction

19566.1

Kid Glove Killer

19426.4

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

19417.1

East Side, West Side

19497.1

Maggie

1986

Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood

20187.0

Joe Smith, American

19426.5

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia

20237.7

My Forbidden Past

19515.5

Calling Dr. Gillespie

19427.0

Strange Testament

19417.5

La Rabbia

19637.0

The Angel Wore Red

19605.0

On the Trail of the Iguana

19646.5

The Little Hut

19576.4

This Time for Keeps

19428.0

Blonde Fever

19444.4

Screen Actors

19506.3

Permission to Kill

19755.8

Sunday Punch

19426.0

3 Men in White

19446.4

Young Ideas

19435.3

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

2009

Beautiful Like a Poem

2020

All Night Long

20106.7

Lost Angel

19438.0

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

19987.7

She Went to the Races

19456.0

I'm a Civilian Here Myself

194510.0

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

20009.0

De Madrid a la Luna

20066.0

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

20175.8

Mighty Lak a Goat

19426.5

Fallout

20137.0

Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång

2003

Året var 1953

20035.0