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Category: Ava's Friends

Creating a Character: Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro

By Beth Nevarez and Lora Stocker on Apr. 22, 2021

“’Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngàje Ngài,' the House of God. Close to the western…

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The Author and the Actress: Ava Gardner’s Friendship with Ernest “Papa” Hemingway

By Beth Nevarez on Apr. 01, 2021

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand.” – Ernest Hemingway – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most well-known and celebrated authors…

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Jack Fixa, Miss G, and Me

By Nina Khan on Nov. 05, 2020

Nina Khan lived next door to Ava Gardner’s secretary, Jack Fixa, in Bayswater in London in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through Jack she met Ava. The below blog consists of her memories of both Jack and…

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Museum Alphabet: The Ava Gardner Museum From A to Z

By Ava Gardner Museum on Jul. 02, 2020

The Ava Gardner Museum has spent the last few months participating in #MuseumAlphabet, sharing artifacts from the collection from A to Z as a way to bring the museum to you at home. Now you can…

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Celebrating Black History Month at the Ava Gardner Museum

By Ava Gardner Museum on Feb. 13, 2020

In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating some of Ava Gardner’s African-American contemporaries and friends from the studio era. We are also sharing some of Ava’s personal experiences and…

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"The Sun Also Rises" & The Lost Generation of the 1920s

By Beth Nevarez on Jan. 28, 2020

January 2020 marks 100 years since the start of the “Roaring Twenties” and the start of Prohibition. The decade of the 1920s is well-known as an economically prosperous time period, a time of cultural…

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