The film 55 Days at Peking (1963) takes us to Peking (now Beijing), China in the year 1900 at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Ava Gardner stars as Russian Baroness Natalie Ivanoff, the love interest

Ava Gardner made fewer films in the 1970s and 1980s, preferring her quiet life in London to any film set. In the 1980s, she briefly worked on the small screen, predominantly in television movies and

“As far as my career as an actress went, Mogambo was probably as close to a pinnacle as anything I’ve done.” - Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

Ava Gardner received her first and only Academy Award

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Throughout her five-decade career, Ava Gardner often played complicated, emboldened women. Beautiful, but

One of Ava Gardner’s most acclaimed performances was as Maxine Faulk, the widowed proprietor of a small coastal hotel in The Night of the Iguana. Adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams and

The Great Sinner was released on June 29, 1949. The film starred a large ensemble cast including Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, and Agnes

Set amidst India’s fight for independence from the British, Bhowani Junction (1956) stars Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian woman whose questions of identity and choice in romantic

During the course of her five-decade career, Ava Gardner starred in a variety of genres, working in projects as diverse as historical epics, supernatural films, political thrillers, disaster movies,

While no major biopic film about Ava Gardner’s life has been made yet, Ava Gardner has been depicted in films and television series by several different actresses over the years. Each portrayal has

On the surface Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner seemed like unlikely friends, but over the course of their professional and personal lives, the two formed a deep, lasting relationship built on mutual