Ava Gardner Blog /ava-gardner/blog/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:15:59 +0000 Movies are Murder: Ava Gardner’s Character Assassination Under the Hays Code /ava-gardner/blog/post/movies-are-murder-ava-gardners-character-assassination-under-the-hays-code/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/movies-are-murder-ava-gardners-character-assassination-under-the-hays-code/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/movies-are-murder-ava-gardners-character-assassination-under-the-hays-code/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:00:00 -0500

This post is part of the fall blogathon: .

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

]]> ‘Absolutely Splendid:’ Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana /ava-gardner/blog/post/absolutely-splendid-ava-gardner-in-the-night-of-the-iguana/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/absolutely-splendid-ava-gardner-in-the-night-of-the-iguana/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/absolutely-splendid-ava-gardner-in-the-night-of-the-iguana/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0400

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

]]> Show Boat: Down the Mississippi Aboard the Cotton Blossom /ava-gardner/blog/post/show-boat-down-the-mississippi-aboard-the-cotton-blossom/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/show-boat-down-the-mississippi-aboard-the-cotton-blossom/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/show-boat-down-the-mississippi-aboard-the-cotton-blossom/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0500

For

Ava Gardner Show Boat Blogathon

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

]]> The Barefoot Contessa: The Price of Stardom /ava-gardner/blog/post/the-barefoot-contessa-the-price-of-stardom/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/the-barefoot-contessa-the-price-of-stardom/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/the-barefoot-contessa-the-price-of-stardom/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Barefoot Contessa Poster

“Of all the pictures I’ve made, and honey, you better believe I have no idea exactly how much territory that covers, there’s no doubt that The Barefoot Contessa is the one that most people identify

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