Ava Gardner
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.
99 acting credits
Acting · 99
Knots Landing
1979
What's My Line?
1950
Intimate Portrait
1993
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023
A.D.
1985
Earthquake
1974
Harem
1986
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
55 Days at Peking
1963
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
The Long Hot Summer
1985
The Sentinel
1977
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Seven Days in May
1964
The Killers
1946
Knights of the Round Table
1953
The Barefoot Contessa
1954
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
On the Beach
1959
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Mayerling
1968
Mogambo
1953
The Night of the Iguana
1964
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
Show Boat
1951
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
The Sun Also Rises
1957
Lone Star
1952
The Blue Bird
1976
The Band Wagon
1953
That's Entertainment!
1974
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
2015
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
Reunion in France
1942
The Hucksters
1947
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Harem
1986
Hitler's Madman
1943
City on Fire
1979
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
The Naked Maja
1958
Rat Pack
2022
La Rabbia
1963
The Little Hut
1957
Singapore
1947
The Bribe
1949
Whistle Stop
1946
Twenty Years After
1944
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
The Great Sinner
1949
The Angel Wore Red
1960
Screen Actors
1950
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Lost Angel
1943
Chavela
2017
Blonde Fever
1944
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998
The Kidnapping of the President
1980
Bhowani Junction
1956
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970
Sunday Punch
1942
Priest of Love
1981
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942
One Touch of Venus
1948
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
Young Ideas
1943
East Side, West Side
1949
This Time for Keeps
1942
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017
My Forbidden Past
1951
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
3 Men in White
1944
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
Fallout
2013
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944
Swing Fever
1943
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
Permission to Kill
1975
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
2023
Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood
2018
The Costume Designer
1950
Joe Smith, American
1942
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
All Night Long
2010
Strange Testament
1941
Mighty Lak a Goat
1942
Kid Glove Killer
1942
She Went to the Races
1945
Regina Roma
1982
De Madrid a la Luna
2006
Legends of the West
1992
Året var 1953
2003
Fancy Answers
1941
Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång
2003
We Do It Because
1942
I'm a Civilian Here Myself
1945