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1. www.harpersbazaar.com › ava-gardner-life-in-photosThe Life of Film Star Ava Gardner in Photos - Harper's BAZAAR

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   Feb 21, 2020 · 1940: A True Beauty. Gardner's striking beauty is what landed her on Hollywood's radar. At the age of 18, after her photograph was spotted in her brother's New York City photography studio, the ...

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2. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2021The Remarkable Story Behind Ava Gardner’s Last Portrait

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   Jan 27, 2021 · January 27, 2021. Photograph by Tom Zimberoff. Ava Gardner, queen of the silver screen, couldn’t have predicted she’d be sporting sweats in the last portrait ever taken of her—though even if ...

3. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2020The Wild Life and Many Loves of Ava Gardner - Vanity Fair

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   Jun 3, 2020 · Ava was impressed, and Castro’s mistress and translator Marita Lorenz was on high alert. According to Lorenz, per Server, after their meeting Gardner began to woo Castro, and the two women had a ...

4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0001257Ava Gardner - IMDb

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   Ava Gardner. Actress: The Night of the Iguana. Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window ...

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: Grabtown, North Carolina, USA

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: Westminster, London, England, UK

5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0001257Ava Gardner - Biography - IMDb

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   Ava Gardner. Actress: The Night of the Iguana. Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in- law's New York photo studio...

   • Occupation: Actress, Stunts, Soundtrack
   • Death Date: January 25, 1990

   • Birth Date: December 24, 1922

6. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2013/08/26Ava Gardner, the Reluctant Movie Star | The New Yorker

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   Aug 19, 2013 · David Denby on memoirs by the Hollywood actress who appeared in “The Barefoot Contessa,” “The Killers,” and “Mogambo,” and whose husbands included Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra.

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   Who is Ava Gardner?

   • Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood history, Ava Gardner left her mark during her almost 50-year film career. But her roles in movies like The Barefoot Contessa and Show Boat were almost eclipsed by her numerous marriages and tabloid-ridden love life.

   Ava Gardner's Life in Photos - Rare Pictures of Ava Gardner

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   Was Ava Gardner the most beautiful actress in Hollywood history?

   • Her film career did not bring her great fulfillment, but her looks may have made it inevitable; many fans still consider her the most beautiful actress in Hollywood history. Ava Gardner died at age 67 of bronchial pneumonia on January 25, 1990 in Westminister, London, England. Once met J.R.R. Tolkien and neither knew why the other was famous.

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   When did Ava Gardner die?

   • The television film Maggie, Gardner’s last, would premiere in 1986. Gardner died of pneumonia on January 25, 1990; it was Frank Sinatra who took care of the funeral. Some of Zimberoff’s outtakes would wind up in the star’s posthumous autobiography Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, written with Peter Evans; others got published in magazines.

   The Remarkable Story Behind Ava Gardner’s Last Portrait

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   Did Ava Gardner wear a Scotch?

   • Photograph by Tom Zimberoff. Ava Gardner, queen of the silver screen, couldn’t have predicted she’d be sporting sweats in the last portrait ever taken of her—though even if she’d been wearing designer selections, the Scotch she sipped between takes may have made it difficult for her to shoot a glamorous photo.

   The Remarkable Story Behind Ava Gardner’s Last Portrait

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   Where did Ava Gardner grow up?

   • Ava Gardner spent her youth far from the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown. She grew up a country girl in Grabtown, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children whose parents were poor tobacco sharecroppers.

   Blue plaque spotlight: Ava Gardner (1922-1990)

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   What does Ava Gardner look like?

   • Dawes teases her, and, enraged, she yanks the curtain aside. Then, at last, we see her: Ava Gardner, with her thick black hair, bowed lips, cleft chin, and green eyes, wearing a scarlet necklace that matches her lipstick, and a white peasant blouse pulled off one shoulder. Admiration struggles against disbelief: how could anyone look that good?

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   Mar 5, 2024 · Gardner left Spain for a quieter life in London in 1968. She acted less and less until stopping altogether in 1986. She bought her first-floor flat at 34 Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge in 1972, where she would spend her final 18 years with her housekeeper and her Welsh corgis, enjoying cultural pastimes such as going to the ballet and theatre ...