Ava Gardner Blog /ava-gardner/blog/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:35:56 +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

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

]]> Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck: Great Old Pals /ava-gardner/blog/post/ava-gardner-and-gregory-peck-great-old-pals/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/ava-gardner-and-gregory-peck-great-old-pals/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/ava-gardner-and-gregory-peck-great-old-pals/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0400

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

]]> Creating a Character: Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro /ava-gardner/blog/post/creating-a-character-ava-gardner-in-the-snows-of-kilimanjaro/ /ava-gardner/blog/post/creating-a-character-ava-gardner-in-the-snows-of-kilimanjaro/#comments /ava-gardner/blog/post/creating-a-character-ava-gardner-in-the-snows-of-kilimanjaro/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:00:00 -0400

“’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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