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

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

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

In 1949, Ava Gardner starred in her fourth film noir, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s The Bribe. After Ava worked on loan-out for United Artists’ Whistle Stop (1946) and then in Universal Studios’ films The

Over the last two years, the Ava Gardner Museum has worked tirelessly to create a broad suite of unique virtual offerings for our fans and supporters around the world. These online programs,

“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

In our continued effort to share the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Ava Gardner with fans the world over, the Museum recently launched a new virtual initiative. Our new virtual program, called

For

Show Boat’s Origins

The role of Julie LaVerne in MGM’s lavish Technicolor adaptation of the beloved stage musical Show Boat is one of Ava

“I’ll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare.”

– Ava Gardner as Eleanor Holbrook in Seven Days in May (1964) –

Seven Days in May is a Cold War-era