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Ava Gardner

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Ava Gardner

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American actress (1922–1990)

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Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922–1990) was an American actress, model, and autobiographer. Born in Grabtown, North Carolina, she began her professional career in 1941. Her work in film earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. She also received the Silver Shell for Best Actress and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Gardner was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra. She died of pneumonia in Westminster in 1990. Her recorded works include titles such as "Ava" and "Ava Gardner."

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1922
Died
1990
Works
5

Top works

  • Automation of serials processes and serials control
  • Ava
  • Ava Gardner
  • Jesus Says...HIV Is Heaven In View
  • Ava

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

  • Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Beautiful Like a Poem — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Chavela — Self (archive footage)2017
  • Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies — Self (archive footage)2017
  • Iconic Couples of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2015
  • Fallout — Self (archive footage)2013

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1922
Active to
1990
jazz

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
45,440
Total plays
127,279

Tags

classic hollywoodold hollywoodhawtamericangrady

Similar artists

Clark GableJean HarlowJames CagneyCarroll GibbonsGeorge Duning Orchestra

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. From "Show Boat", a 1951 American musical romantic drama film, based on the stage musical of the same name, Ava Gardner's own singing voice is heard on the soundtrack album but not in the actual film, where her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren. Her original rendition of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" appeared in the documentary film "That's Entertainment! III" and is considered by some to be superior to the version used in the film. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ava+Gardner">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,798x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,989x

  3. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    · 2021 · cited 12,152x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  5. An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time

    · 2020 · cited 8,423x

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Quotes

  • “[On John Ford] The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!”
  • “[On her relationship with Frank Sinatra] We were great in bed. It was usually on the way to the bidet when the trouble began.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers.

During the 1950s, Gardner established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like Show Boat and Pandora and the Flying Dutchman both in 1951. Gardner went on to star in a series of action adventures throughout the 1950s, including The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), Mogambo (1953), and The Barefoot Contessa (1954). At the end of the decade she starred opposite Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire in On the Beach (1959).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ava Gardner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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