AVA GARDNER 1940s BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL VINTAGE 5X7 COLOR STUDIO TRANSPARENCY

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AVA GARDNER 1940s BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL VINTAGE 5X7 COLOR STUDIO TRANSPARENCY
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Vintage original 5" X 7" color studio transparency on Kodak safety film of actress
AVA GARDNER
posing on the streets of Los Angeles.
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5" X 7"
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color
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AVA GARDNER
BIO
(December 24, 1922 ? January 25, 1990) was an American actress.
She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared 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
Bhowani Junction
(1956),
On the Beach
(1959),
The Night of the Iguana
(1964),
Earthquake
(1974), and
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976). Gardner continued to act on a regular basis until 1986, four years before her death of pneumonia, at age 67, in 1990.
She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time.
Gardner was born in the small farming community of Grabtown, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children (she had two brothers; Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters; Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez and Myra) of poor cotton and tobacco farmers; her mother, Mary Elizabeth ("Mollie") Gardner (née Baker) was a Baptist of Scots-Irish and English descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was a Roman Catholic of Irish American and American Indian (Tuscarora) descent.
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When the children were still young, the Gardners lost their property, forcing Jonas Gardner to work at a sawmill and Mollie to begin working as a cook and housekeeper at a dormitory for teachers at the nearby Brogden School.
When Gardner was 13 years old, the family decided to try their luck in a bigger town, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boardinghouse for the city's many shipworkers. While in Newport News, Gardner's father became ill and died from bronchitis in 1938, when Ava was 15 years old. After Jonas Gardner's death, the family moved to the Rock Ridge suburb of Wilson, North Carolina, where Mollie Gardner ran another boarding house for teachers. Ava Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939. She then attended secretarial classes at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson for about a year.
Gardner was visiting her sister Beatrice ("Bappie") in New York in 1941 when Beatrice's husband Larry Tarr, a professional photographer, offered to take her portrait. He was so pleased with the results that he displayed the finished product in the front window of his Tarr Photography Studio on tony Fifth Avenue.
In 1941, a Loews Theatres legal clerk, Barnard "Barney" Duhan, spotted Gardner's photo in Tarr's studio. At the time, Duhan often posed as an MGM talent scout to meet girls, using the fact that MGM was a subsidiary of Loews. Duhan entered Tarr's and tried to get Gardner's number, but was rebuffed by the receptionist. Duhan made the offhand comment,
"Somebody should send her info to MGM"
, and the Tarrs did so immediately. Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office. She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her. MGM's first order of business was to provide her a speech coach, as her Carolina drawl was nearly incomprehensible to them.
Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for
Mogambo
(1953); the award was won by Audrey Hepburn for
Roman Holiday
. Her performance as Maxine Faulk in
The Night of the Iguana
(1964), was well reviewed, and she was nominated a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe.
Other films include
The Hucksters
(1947),
Show Boat
(1951),
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1952), 1954's
The Barefoot Contessa
(which some consider to be Gardner's "signature film" since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot),
Bhowani Junction
(1956),
The Sun Also Rises
(in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley) (1957), and the film version of Neville Shute's best-selling
On the Beach
, co-starring Gregory Peck. Off-camera, she could be witty and pithy, as in her assessment of director John Ford, who directed
Mogambo
(
"The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!"
)
In 1966, Gardner briefly sought the role of Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols'
The Graduate
(1967). She reportedly called Nichols and said, "I want to see you! I want to talk about this
Graduate
thing!" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that "she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché. She said, 'All right, let's talk about your movie. First of all, I strip for nobody.'"
Gardner moved to London, England in 1968, undergoing an elective hysterectomy to allay her worries of contracting the uterine cancer that had claimed the life of her own mother. That year, she made what some consider to be one of her best films,
Mayerling
, in which she played the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria opposite James Mason as Emperor Franz Joseph I.
She appeared in a number of disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably
Earthquake
(1974),
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976), and the Canadian movie
City on Fire
(1979). She also starred in
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(1972) with Paul Newman and Jacqueline Bisset,
The Blue Bird
(1976) with Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor.
Her last movie was
Regina Roma
(1982), a direct-to-video release. In the 1980s she acted primarily on television, including the miniseries remake of
The Long Hot Summer
(1985) and the prime-time soap opera
Knot's Landing
, also in 1985. In 1986 she appeared in her two final projects, the TV movies
Harem
and
Maggie
.
Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney; they married on January 10, 1942, in Ballard, California; she was 19 years old, and he was 21. Gardner made several movies before 1946, but it wasn't until she starred in
The Killers
with Burt Lancaster that she became a star and a sex symbol. Rooney and Gardner divorced in 1943. He later reputedly rhapsodized about their sex life, but Gardner retorted,
"Well, honey, he may have enjoyed the sex, but [goodness knows] I didn't."
She once characterized their marriage as
"Love Finds Andy Hardy"
.
Gardner became a friend of businessman and aviator Howard Hughes in the early to mid-1940s and the relationship lasted into the 1950s.
Gardner's second marriage was to jazz musician and band leader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946.
Gardner's third and last marriage (1951?1957) was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra. She would later say in her autobiography that of all the men she'd had - that he was the love of her life. Sinatra left his wife, Nancy, for Ava and their subsequent marriage made headlines. Sinatra was savaged by gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the Hollywood establishment, the Roman Catholic Church, and by his fans for leaving his wife for a "femme fatale". His career suffered, while hers prospered - the headlines solidifying her screen siren image. Gardner used her considerable clout to get Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in
From Here to Eternity
(1953). That role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers. Gardner said of her relationship with Sinatra,
"We were great in bed. It was usually on the way to the bidet when the trouble began."
During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but she had two abortions. "MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies," she said. She said years later, "We couldn't even take care of ourselves. How were we going to take care of a baby?" Gardner and Sinatra remained good friends for the rest of her life.
Gardner divorced Sinatra in 1957 and headed to Spain where she began a friendship with writer Ernest Hemingway. While staying with Hemingway at his villa in San Francisco de Paula in Cuba Gardner once swam alone with no bathing suit in his pool. After watching her Hemingway ordered his staff: "The water is not to be emptied". Gardner's friendship with Hemingway led to her becoming a fan of bullfighting and bullfighters such as Luis Miguel Dominguín, who became her lover. "It was a sort of madness, honey," she said later of the time.
After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema, in addition to an autoimmune disorder (which may have been lupus). Two strokes in 1986 left her partially paralyzed and bedridden. Although Gardner could afford her medical expenses, Sinatra wanted to pay for her to visit a specialist in the United States, and she allowed him to make the arrangements for a medically-staffed private plane. Her last words (to her housekeeper Carmen), were reportedly, "I'm so tired," before she died of pneumonia at the age of 67. After her death, Sinatra's daughter Tina found him slumped in his room, crying, and unable to speak.
Gardner was not only the love of his life but also the inspiration for one of his most personal songs, "I'm a Fool to Want You", which Sinatra (who received a co-writing credit for the song) recorded twice, toward the end of his contract with Columbia Records and during his years on Capitol Records. ("It was Ava who taught him how to sing a torch song", Sinatra arranger Nelson Riddle was once quoted as saying.) It has been reported that Sinatra attended her funeral, due to the presence of a black limousine parked behind the crowd of 500 mourners. Instead, a hairstylist from Fayetteville, North Carolina, had felt that a limousine was the only appropriate mode of transportation to Gardner's funeral. A floral arrangement at Gardner's graveside simply read: "With My Love, Francis".
Gardner died in her London home in 1990, from pneumonia, following several years of declining health. Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonah (1878?1938) and Mollie Gardner (1883?1943). The town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner Museum.
Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries
Sinatra
, Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's
The Rat Pack
, and Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic,
The Aviator
.
Filmography
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1941
Shadow of the Thin Man
Passerby
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Young Socialite
Babes on Broadway
Pitt-Astor Girl
1942
Joe Smith - American
Miss Maynard, Secretary
This Time for Keeps
Girl in car lighting cigarette
Kid Glove Killer
Car Hop
Sunday Punch
Ringsider
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Graduating student at Miss Hope's
Reunion in France
Marie, a salesgirl
1943
Hitler's Madman
Franciska Pritric a Student
Ghosts on the Loose
Betty
Young Ideas
Co-ed
Du Barry Was a Lady
Perfume Girl
Swing Fever
Receptionist
Lost Angel
Hat Check Girl
1944
Two Girls and a Sailor
Dream Girl
Three Men in White
Jean Brown
Maisie Goes to Reno
Gloria Fullerton
Blonde Fever
Bit Role
1945
She Went to the Races
Hilda Spotts
1946
Whistle Stop
Mary
The Killers
Kitty Collins
1947
Singapore
Linda Grahame/Ann Van Leyden
The Hucksters
Jean Ogilvie
1948
One Touch of Venus
Venus
1949
The Bribe
Elizabeth Hintten
The Great Sinner
Pauline Ostrovsky
East Side, West Side
Isabel Lorrison
1951
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora Reynolds
My Forbidden Past
Barbara Beaurevel
Show Boat
Julie LaVerne
1952
Lone Star
Martha Ronda
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Cynthia Green
1953
Knights of the Round Table
Guinevere
Ride, Vaquero!
Cordelia Cameron
The Band Wagon
Herself
Mogambo
Honey Bear Kelly
Nominated ? Academy Award for Best Actress
1954
The Barefoot Contessa
Maria Vargas
1956
Bhowani Junction
Victoria Jones
Nominated ? BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress
1957
The Little Hut
Lady Susan Ashlow
The Sun Also Rises
Lady Brett Ashley
1958
The Naked Maja
Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba
1959
On the Beach
Moira Davidson
Nominated ? BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress
1960
The Angel Wore Red
Soledad
1963
55 Days at Peking
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
1964
Seven Days in May
Eleanor Holbrook
The Night of the Iguana
Maxine Faulk
Nominated ? BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress
Nominated ? Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
1966
The Bible: In The Beginning
Sarah
1968
Mayerling
Empress Elizabeth
1970
Tam-Lin
Michaela Cazaret
1972
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Lily Langtry
1974
Earthquake
Remy Royce-Graff
1975
Permission to Kill
Katina Petersen
1976
The Blue Bird
Luxury
The Cassandra Crossing
Nicole Dressler
1977
The Sentinel
Miss Logan
1979
City on Fire
Maggie Grayson
1980
The Kidnapping of the President
Beth Richards
1981
Priest of Love
Mabel Dodge Luhan
1982
Regina Roma
Mama
(courtesy of Wikipedia)
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