Birthday: December 24, 1922
Ava Gardner began her career first as a model, then as a contract player at MGM, where her gawky, unsophisticated demeanor was totally made over by the studio into an image of inaccessible glamour. Gardner toiled in tiny bit roles, finally getting a worthwhile one on loan-out to Universal in The Killers (1946). MGM was never very comfortable with the bad-girl persona she ...more- 1964
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- The Night of the Iguana
- nom
- 1953
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actress
- Mogambo
- nom
- 1986
- Harem
- Kadin
- 1985
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Minnie
- 1985
- A.D.
- Agrippina
- 1981
- Priest of Love
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
- 1980
- The Kidnapping of the President
- Beth Richards
- 1976
- Gator
- Producer













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