Career Highlights and Transformative Roles Ava Gardner’s filmography is a diverse portfolio of performances that span genres ...

A month before her passing, in 1990, Ava Gardner received a magazine clipping and a note from her friend Gregory Peck. “You are always on our minds. Try hard to get better,” he wrote to her ...

The world got its first glimpse of Ava Gardner in the tiny Johnston County crossroad called Grabtown outside Smithfield, where the family sharecropped tobacco until the barn and cotton gin burned ...

later revealed in a 2008 interview with Jay Leno that Ava was named after Hollywood icon Ava Gardner. “To me, she was the only woman who could break Sinatra,” Reese said. “So the idea of ...