Ava Gardner
Acting
1922-12-24 · Grabtown, North Carolina, USA
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.
Filmography
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
2023 · Movie
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023 · Series
Rat Pack
2022 · Movie
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Movie
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018 · Movie
Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood
2018 · Movie
Chavela
2017 · Movie
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017 · Movie
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
2015 · Series
Fallout
2013 · Movie
All Night Long
2010 · Movie
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · Movie
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009 · Movie
De Madrid a la Luna
2006 · Movie
Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång
2003 · Movie
Året var 1953
2003 · Movie
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000 · Movie
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998 · Movie
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
Legends of the West
1992 · Movie
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988 · Movie
Maggie
1986 · Movie
Harem
1986 · Series
Harem
1986 · Movie
The Long Hot Summer
1985 · Series
A.D.
1985 · Series
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Movie
Regina Roma
1982 · Movie
Priest of Love
1981 · Movie
The Kidnapping of the President
1980 · Movie
Knots Landing
1979 · Series
City on Fire
1979 · Movie
The Sentinel
1977 · Movie
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977 · Movie
The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Movie
The Blue Bird
1976 · Movie
Permission to Kill
1975 · Movie
Earthquake
1974 · Movie
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Movie
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 · Movie
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970 · Movie
Mayerling
1968 · Movie
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966 · Movie
The Night of the Iguana
1964 · Movie
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964 · Movie
Seven Days in May
1964 · Movie
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Movie
La Rabbia
1963 · Movie
The Angel Wore Red
1960 · Movie
On the Beach
1959 · Movie
The Naked Maja
1958 · Movie
The Sun Also Rises
1957 · Movie
The Little Hut
1957 · Movie
Bhowani Junction
1956 · Movie
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · Movie
Knights of the Round Table
1953 · Movie
Mogambo
1953 · Movie
The Band Wagon
1953 · Movie
Ride, Vaquero!
1953 · Movie
Lone Star
1952 · Movie
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · Movie
Show Boat
1951 · Movie
My Forbidden Past
1951 · Movie
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 · Movie
The Costume Designer
1950 · Movie
Screen Actors
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
East Side, West Side
1949 · Movie
The Great Sinner
1949 · Movie
The Bribe
1949 · Movie
One Touch of Venus
1948 · Movie
Singapore
1947 · Movie
The Hucksters
1947 · Movie
The Killers
1946 · Movie
Whistle Stop
1946 · Movie
She Went to the Races
1945 · Movie
I'm a Civilian Here Myself
1945 · Movie
Blonde Fever
1944 · Movie
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944 · Movie
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944 · Movie
3 Men in White
1944 · Movie
Twenty Years After
1944 · Movie
Lost Angel
1943 · Movie
Swing Fever
1943 · Movie
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943 · Movie
Young Ideas
1943 · Movie
Ghosts on the Loose
1943 · Movie
Hitler's Madman
1943 · Movie
Reunion in France
1942 · Movie
Mighty Lak a Goat
1942 · Movie
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Movie
Sunday Punch
1942 · Movie
Kid Glove Killer
1942 · Movie
This Time for Keeps
1942 · Movie
Joe Smith, American
1942 · Movie
We Do It Because
1942 · Movie
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Movie
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941 · Movie
Strange Testament
1941 · Movie
Fancy Answers
1941 · Movie