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Ava Gardner
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Actor Born: December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, NC Death: January 25, 1990 in London, England, UK Biography:"Ava Gardner" began her career first as a model, then as a contract player at MGM, where her gawky, unsophisticated demeanor was totally made over by the studio into an image of inaccessible glamour. Gardner toiled in tiny bit roles, finally getting a worthwhile one on loan-out to Universal in "The Killers" (1946). MGM was never very comfortable with the bad-girl persona she displayed so well in this film, and, thus, most of her starring appearances at her home studio were relatively sympathetic roles in "The Hucksters" (1947) and "Show Boat" (1951). Her cinema reputation as The World's Most Beautiful Animal (in the words of a '50s publicity campaign) was once again manifested in loan-out movies like "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (1951) and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952).
MGM eventually came to terms with the elements that made Gardner popular, notably in the gutsy "Mogambo" (1953), in which... Full Biography
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