Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner (Brogden (North Carolina) — 24 december 1922 , London, 25 January 1990) was an American filmactress. She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1954 for her starring role in Mogambo, for a Golden Globe for The Night of The Iguana and for BAFTA Awards for both Bhowani Junction, On the Beach as The Night of The Iguana.



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[verbergen]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Gardner was the daughter of a tobacco planter (Jonas Gardner) and spent her childhood on the plantation by. She was the youngest of seven children.
 * 2 Trivia
 * 3 Statements
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 Literature
 * 6 external links

She started her career at the age of 18, in 1940, when her picture in the window of the photo studio of her brother-in-law in New York was noticed by people of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was generally considered that Gardner little acting talent, but that they possessed by her outer beauty was extremely suitable for the film industry. During the first years of her career she played but some minor supporting roles which remained limited to several lines of text. The first film that really brought her to the attention was The Killers from 1946.

Gardner was in that period, still best known for her stormy marriages. In the period 1942-1943 she was married to actor Mickey Rooney, in 1945-1946 with Artie Shaw and 1924 Jazz leader of 1951 to 1957 with Frank Sinatra.

After the Second World War she finally got big roles and a lot of great directors and played alongside some of the great actors: with James Mason in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward in Snows of the Kilimanjaro, with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly in Mogambo (for her role in this film, she received a Oscar nomination), with Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Mel Ferrer in The Sun also Rises, withHumphrey Bogart in The Barefoot Contessa and with Richard Burton and Deborah Kerr in The Night of The Iguana.

Gardner was known as a whimsical actress and they committed breach of contractseveral times. Dissatisfied with life in Hollywood, she left the film city at the height of her career, in 1955, and they retired to Spain. Most of the films they made were after 1955 outside of the USA included. In 1968 they established themselves in the posh Kensingtondistrict of London . Gardner would also have had with the Industrial Affairs Howard Hughes, actor George c. Scott (who would allegedly have beaten her during their relationship) and the Spanish Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominiquin.

In 1989, she was by a stroke that affected her partially paralyzed. Her former husband Frank Sinatra paid the medical expenses. She died in London on 25 January 1990 to a pneumonia. Ava Gardner is buried inSmithfield, North Carolina (USA). In Smithfield is also a museum in honor of Ava Gardner. ==Trivia[ Edit] == ==Pronunciations<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Literature<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Ava Gardner was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 sexiest stars from the Hollywood history.
 * One of her best friends from Hollywood was Lana Turner, which likewise with Artie Shaw married.
 * Ever she met j. r. r. Tolkien. Neither knew why the other was known.
 * Ava Gardner was in the television film Sinatra (1992) played by Marcia Gay Harden and in the film The Aviator (2004) by Kate Beckinsale.
 * For the film The Little Hut one could win an island in the Pacific Ocean that preview was renamed to ' Ava Ava '.
 * After they had learned the dance for The Barefoot Contessa, flamenco became one of Gardners favorite hobbies. She practiced sometimes even all night long.
 * During the last years of her life were her only company her house maid Carmen Vargas and her dog, Morgan, a Welsh corgi. After her death they were in house by Gregory Peck, with whom they had played together yet.
 * I have only one rule in acting-trust the director and give him heart and soul. (I have only one rule on acting – trust the Director and surrender to him with heart and soul.)
 * I haven't tasks an overdose or sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days. (I have no overdose of sleeping pills taken and my agent called up. I haven't been in jail, and I don't run every two minutes by at my psychiatrist. That is really an achievement these days.)
 * Nobody ever called it an intellectual profession. (Nobody ever said an intellectual job was.)
 * I wish to live until 150 year-old but the day I'll die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. (I want to be 150 years old, but when I die I want to do that with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.)
 * What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted. (What I would really like to say about stardom is that it has given me everything what I never wanted to.)
 * D. Hanna, Ava
 * Ch. Higham, Ava, a life story
 * J. Daniell, A. Gardner