Ava Gardner
Actor
- 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…