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    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
    • 1985
    • A.D.
    • Agrippina


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