Ava Gardner
Gender: Female
Born: 24th December 1922
Died: 25th January 1990
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: A.D., Knots Landing
Movies: Earthquake, Mogambo, Seven Days in May, The Blue Bird, The Cassandra Crossing, The Killers, Whistle Stop, 55 Days at Peking, The Naked Maja, Tam-Lin, Mayerling, Ride, Vaquero!, One Touch of Venus, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Priest of Love, On the Beach, Permission to Kill, The Barefoot Contessa, Knights of the Round Table, The Bible: In The Beginning, The Night of the Iguana, The Angel Wore Red, Lone Star, The Little Hut, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Kidnapping of the President, Bhowani Junction, The Hucksters, The Sun Also Rises, The Bribe, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Show Boat, Regina, East Side, West Side, Maisie Goes to Reno, The Great Sinner, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Sentinel, Ghosts on the Loose, Singapore, City on Fire, My Forbidden Past, H.M. Pulham, Esq., Lost Angel, Blonde Fever, Singapore, Sunday Punch, Mighty Lak a Goat, 3 Men in White, Hitler's Madman, Calling Dr. Gillespie, The Long Hot Summer, Young Ideas, Two Girls and a Sailor, Reunion in France, She Went to the Races, Shadow of the Thin Man, Kid Glove Killer, DuBarry Was a Lady, Babes on Broadway
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 became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day. 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), 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 from pneumonia, at age 67, in 1990.
She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest female stars.
Gardner was born in the big farming community of Grabtown, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children (she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice,
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