I had no doubt I'd be a movie queen.
Her paternal great-grandparents, William Gardner and Cynthia Eliza Batts, were also the paternal great-great-great-great-grandparents of 40 × 32 in. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South.
View all. In later life she more than made up for this lack by continual self-education. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South.
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Ava Lavinia Gardner (24 December 1922 – 25 Januar 1990) wis an American actress an sangster.
Gardner wasn’t really all that happy about it, but couldn’t complain about the cool $140,000 she earned for the role.
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I was just a pretty little girl. Not only was she acclaimed for her supreme acting skills, but her status as a sex symbol also added to her legend. Vada Considine hello.
She threw a glass of champagne at the reporter, who said that at the moment she did so "the only thing I could think was how bloody gorgeous the woman was".
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[1982] I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them. Edition 1/7. I couldn't imagine a better place [Melbourne, Australia] for making a film on the end of the world. During the 1950s, Gardner established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in Her first appearance in a feature film was as a walk on in the He [Huston] had more faith in me than I did myself. Visit our help center. Do you need to know Ava Gardner’s Age and Birthday date? Certificate of authenticity.
Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner.
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, "She can't talk! [on her career] Had I really cared, I could have been really good, but I didn't. November 1953.
Her volatile and eventful love life also kept her on the front pages of the tabloids during her reign in Hollywood. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, "Oh, she's lost her looks." There is an Ava Gardner Museum of memorabilia in Smithfield, NC. [on her first screen test] There wasn't a thing that I could do. Her older siblings were Raymond, Melvin ("Jack"), Beatrice ("Bappie"), Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra.
Smithfield is a larger town seven miles west. She wis signed tae a contract wi Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941, an appeared mainly in smaw roles till she drew attention wi her performance in The Killers (1946). Maybe I just didn't have the temperament for stardom. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in- law's New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM, leading quickly to Hollywood and a film contract based strictly on her beauty. I'll never forget seeing And what are his/her social media accounts? I couldn't act--I was the first to be eliminated in high school plays. MODERN SCREEN MAGAZINE. Was considered for the role of Leslie Benedict in In this role, I must create a character, not just play one.Two years later, in 1966, Gardner briefly sought the role of Mrs. Robinson in Gardner's second marriage was equally brief, to jazz musician and bandleader The Gardner-Sinatra marriage was tumultuous.