On the Beach
1959
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Ava Gardner. Actress: The Night of the Iguana. Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South.
Apr 2, 2014 · Actress Ava Gardner was a sultry beauty famous for playing femme fatale roles, and for her marriages to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and Mickey Rooney. Updated: Apr 22, 2021. Photo: Getty Images.
Jan 27, 2021 · January 27, 2021. Photograph by Tom Zimberoff. Ava Gardner, queen of the silver screen, couldn’t have predicted she’d be sporting sweats in the last portrait ever taken of her—though even if...
Ava Gardner (born December 24, 1922, Grabtown, North Carolina, U.S.—died January 25, 1990, London, England) was an American film actress of the 1940s and ’50s who, despite her renowned beauty and sensuality, successfully resisted being typecast as a sex symbol.
Jan 26, 1990 · Ava Gardner, a North Carolina sharecropper's daughter who became one of the most bewitching movie actresses in the world, died of pneumonia yesterday at her home in the Kensington section of...
Jun 16, 2022 · Gregorio Belinchón. Madrid - Jun 16, 2022 - 12:54 EDT. Mearene Jordan photographs Ava Gardner in the mid-1950s. During a career spanning nearly half a century, Ava Gardner loved, fought,...
Ava's Life Story | Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, NC. Ava's Story. AVA’S childhood. On Christmas Eve 1922, Jonas and Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gardner welcomed their seventh child into the world, Ava Lavinia Gardner. The large Gardner family made their home in the rural North Carolina community of Grabtown, seven miles east of Smithfield.
