Ava Gardner
Actor
Films to Rent
- Ghost on the Loose (1943)
- Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey
- At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
- Killers, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
- Textbook film noir has insurance investigator Edmund O'Brien auditing the curious death of prize–fighter Burt Lancaster, in a series of…
- Show Boat (1951)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel…
- Lavish technicolor adaptation of the 1920 Hammerstein stage musical in which an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi river–boat to…
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…
- Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
- Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward
- One of the more convincing attempts to adapt Ernest Hemingway for the screen, this follows the deathbed reverie of an American writer (Peck) from his…
- Mogambo (1953)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
- Clark Gable squeezes in wooing both Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly between bouts of elephant shooting in the African jungle.
- Knights of the Round Table (1953)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer…
- Sumptuous retelling of the legends of Camelot was MGM's first Cinemascope production. Tayloris excellent as Lancelot while Ava Gardner is inspired…
- Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner
- Humphrey Bogart plays a cynical film director who recalls the life of a Spanish beauty whom he helped make a Hollywood star. Hailed a 'trash…
- On the Beach (1959)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire…
- 50's cold war paranoia piece set in post–WW2 Melbourne, the only place in the world yet untouched by creeping radiation. Based on Nevil Shute's…
- 55 Days at Peking (1963)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner
- Set in the turmoil of 1900 China, during the Boxer Rebellion, this splashy Hollywood epic succeeds on the strength of its stylish visuals and…
- Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon…
- Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
- Bible, The (1966)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, John Huston…
- A sincere, if not entirely successful, attempt to transpose the Old Testament to the screen – from Adam to Isaac. Appropriately grand and…
- Mayerling (1968)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason…
- Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
- Ballad of Tam-Lin, The (The Devil's Widow) (1970)
- Dir. Roddy McDowall
Feat. Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Cyril Cusack…
- The only film that prolific acting great Roddy McDowall ever directed is this British folk horror based on the Celtic legend Tam Lin.
Legendary…
- Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner…
- Huston's surreal Western stars Paul Newman as Roy Bean, the eccentric hanging 'judge' of American folklore.
- Earthquake (1975)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene…
- The earth moves for Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Green, Richard Roundtree, Genevieve Bujold and the rest of LA in this 70s Disaster opus. Good…
- Cassandra Crossing, The (1977)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner…
- A few too many disasters – train crashes, plagues, terrorists etc. – make for an overcooked yet still entertaining actioner. An…
- Priest Of Love (1981)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner…
- Ian McKellen stars as D.H Lawrence in this biopic, chronicling the author's tempestuous relationship with his wife Frieda (Suzman), and his battle…