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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 as a leading lady. Her career flourished in the 1950s with notable performances in films like Mogambo (1953), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), and The Night of the Iguana (1964), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. Off-screen, Gardner's personal life and progressive politics attracted significant attention. Her marriages to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw were gossiped about, but her tumultuous relationship with Frank Sinatra particularly headlined. Gardner was a strong supporter of racial equality and desegregation, and became a member of the NAACP in 1968. Gardner was a heavy smoker, which deteriorated her health as she grew older. She continued acting in minor roles in the 1980s before she suffered a stroke in 1986 and retired. Gardner moved to Spain and England, where she spent her final years before passing away from bronchopneumonia on January 25, 1990.

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
as Self (archive footage)

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
as Self (archive footage)

Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)

Beautiful Like a Poem
as Self (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

Chavela
as Self (archive footage)

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
as Self (archive footage)

Iconic Couples of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

Fallout
as Self (archive footage)

All Night Long
as Self (archive footage)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)

De Madrid a la Luna
as Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång
as Self (archive footage)

Året var 1953
as Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)

Intimate Portrait
as Self

Legends of the West
as Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)

Maggie
as Diane Webb

Harem
as Kadin

Harem
as Kadin

The Long Hot Summer
as Minnie Littlejohn

A.D.
as Agrippina

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Regina Roma
as Mama

Priest of Love
as Mabel Dodge Luhan

The Kidnapping of the President
as Beth Richards

Knots Landing
as Ruth Sumner Galveston

City on Fire
as Maggie Grayson

The Sentinel
as Helen Logan

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
as Self - Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba (archive footage)

The Cassandra Crossing
as Nicole Dressler

The Blue Bird
as Luxury

Permission to Kill
as Katina Petersen

Earthquake
as Remy Royce-Graff

That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Lily Langtry

The Ballad of Tam Lin
as Michaela Cazaret

Mayerling
as Empress Elisabeth of Austria

The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Sarah

The Night of the Iguana
as Maxine Faulk

On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self

Seven Days in May
as Eleanor Holbrook

55 Days at Peking
as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

La Rabbia
as Self (archive footage)

The Angel Wore Red
as Soledad

On the Beach
as Moira Davidson

The Naked Maja
as Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana

The Sun Also Rises
as Lady Brett Ashley

The Little Hut
as Lady Susan Ashlow

Bhowani Junction
as Victoria Jones

The Barefoot Contessa
as Maria Vargas

Knights of the Round Table
as Guinevere

Mogambo
as Eloise Y. Kelly

The Band Wagon
as Ava Gardner (uncredited)

Ride, Vaquero!
as Cordelia Cameron

Lone Star
as Martha Ronda