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Ava Gardner, who died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of 67, is best remembered in black and white -- her soft skin playing against raven hair as she moved mysteriously across the screen. Whether playing the cynical owner of a Mexican hotel who tempts Richard Burton in "Night of the Iguana" (1964) or chain-smoking her last days away in the postnuclear cloud of "On the Beach" (1959), Ava Gardner always looked as if she was searching for something she could never have.
"Ava Gardner's screen identity is the furthest away from her true personality," said the late John Huston in a 1983 interview. "On screen she is aloof, distant and hard, but nothing could be further from the truth. Her beauty is in her vulnerability."
In the 31 years between "The Killers" (1946), her first major role, as a tough gal opposite Burt Lancaster, and her final appearance in the science fiction/horror film "The Sentinel" (1977), Gardner played her parts with a subtlety rare in American film. While most of her cohorts, particularly Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, always seemed to play to the camera with one eye on their character and the other on their image, Gardner was exactly the opposite. It's as if the camera caught her off guard and she was almost embarrassed that all those people in the dark recesses of a big-screen movie theater were eavesdropping on her most private thoughts.
"What the camera captured was pure myth," said producer-director Stanley Kramer, who worked with Gardner on "On the Beach." "She was painfully shy, and she desperately wanted to live in the shadows."
In a sense, she did. They weren't the shadows that obscured and hid some people from the public eye, but the flickering shadows that danced across the screen of America's collective male libido.
Gardner, born Ava Lavinnia Gardener, was both a creation and a victim of studio promotion. When she was signed to her first contract in 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw her as a sex symbol. In those days, actresses, unless they were major stars such as Bette Davis or Greta Garbo, had little influence when it came to defining their screen personae. Gardner was cooperative. She went along with the program.
"She never fought very much," said Huston. "She was very professional, showed up on time and did terrific work. She never asked many questions. Maybe that was the bad thing. She got along by getting along."
She even got married to Mickey Rooney to get along. MGM arranged the 1942 marriage that lasted only 20 months. A press agent went along on the honeymoon.
"There was no doubt that MGM was exploiting her physical beauty at the expense of developing her talent," said long-time friend and MGM colleague Roddy McDowall in a telephone interview. "That's why her best roles came later."
Although Gardner made one of her biggest splashes opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), it wasn't until she matured that she was appreciated for more than her stunning beauty.
"I know this is a cliche," said Kramer, "but her beauty almost got in the way. People couldn't see beyond it until she got into roles requiring maturity and experience rather than just sex."
Kramer claims that he wasn't surprised that Gardner spent her last years in Europe away from the constant celebrity of American life.
"She was very much a European in spirit," he said. "She often felt that she wasn't under prying eyes."
Any discussion of Ava Gardner's career always seemed to revolve around her husbands. She was married to, and divorced from, Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. She indulged in numerous affairs -- most notably with several Spanish bullfighters. In Europe, her rocky personal relationships weren't given the priority that they received in the United States.
"I'd like to think that toward the end of her life," said Kramer, "she found some of the tranquility she so desired." BLOWEN;01/25 NKELLY;01/26,14:56AVA26 Caption: PHOTO 1. Caught in a stormy relationship with Charlton Heston in "Earthquake" in 1974. 2. Above, with Richard Burton in "Night of the Iguana," and, at right, as the MGM starlet. Obituary, Page 21.
Ava Gardner, who died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of 67, is best remembered in black and white -- her soft skin playing against raven hair as she moved mysteriously across the screen. Whether playing the cynical owner of a Mexican hotel who tempts Richard Burton in "Night of the Iguana" (1964) or chain-smoking her last days away in the postnuclear cloud of "On the Beach" (1959), Ava Gardner always looked as if she was searching for something she could never have.
"Ava Gardner's screen identity is the furthest away from her true personality," said the late John Huston in a 1983 interview. "On screen she is aloof, distant and hard, but nothing could be further from the truth. Her beauty is in her vulnerability."
In the 31 years between "The Killers" (1946), her first major role, as a tough gal opposite Burt Lancaster, and her final appearance in the science fiction/horror film "The Sentinel" (1977), Gardner played her parts with a subtlety rare in American film. While most of her cohorts, particularly Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, always seemed to play to the camera with one eye on their character and the other on their image, Gardner was exactly the opposite. It's as if the camera caught her off guard and she was almost embarrassed that all those people in the dark recesses of a big-screen movie theater were eavesdropping on her most private thoughts.
"What the camera captured was pure myth," said producer-director Stanley Kramer, who worked with Gardner on "On the Beach." "She was painfully shy, and she desperately wanted to live in the shadows."
In a sense, she did. They weren't the shadows that obscured and hid some people from the public eye, but the flickering shadows that danced across the screen of America's collective male libido.
Gardner, born Ava Lavinnia Gardener, was both a creation and a victim of studio promotion. When she was signed to her first contract in 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw her as a sex symbol. In those days, actresses, unless they were major stars such as Bette Davis or Greta Garbo, had little influence when it came to defining their screen personae. Gardner was cooperative. She went along with the program.
"She never fought very much," said Huston. "She was very professional, showed up on time and did terrific work. She never asked many questions. Maybe that was the bad thing. She got along by getting along."
She even got married to Mickey Rooney to get along. MGM arranged the 1942 marriage that lasted only 20 months. A press agent went along on the honeymoon.
"There was no doubt that MGM was exploiting her physical beauty at the expense of developing her talent," said long-time friend and MGM colleague Roddy McDowall in a telephone interview. "That's why her best roles came later."
Although Gardner made one of her biggest splashes opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), it wasn't until she matured that she was appreciated for more than her stunning beauty.
"I know this is a cliche," said Kramer, "but her beauty almost got in the way. People couldn't see beyond it until she got into roles requiring maturity and experience rather than just sex."
Kramer claims that he wasn't surprised that Gardner spent her last years in Europe away from the constant celebrity of American life.
"She was very much a European in spirit," he said. "She often felt that she wasn't under prying eyes."
Any discussion of Ava Gardner's career always seemed to revolve around her husbands. She was married to, and divorced from, Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. She indulged in numerous affairs -- most notably with several Spanish bullfighters. In Europe, her rocky personal relationships weren't given the priority that they received in the United States.
"I'd like to think that toward the end of her life," said Kramer, "she found some of the tranquility she so desired." BLOWEN;01/25 NKELLY;01/26,14:56AVA26 Caption: PHOTO 1. Caught in a stormy relationship with Charlton Heston in "Earthquake" in 1974. 2. Above, with Richard Burton in "Night of the Iguana," and, at right, as the MGM starlet. Obituary, Page 21.
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Ava Gardner: From Sharecropping to Hollywood Stardom
Article from: The Washington Post Article date: March 8, 1992 Author: Martie Zad More results for: ava gardner
Ava Gardner worked in the tobacco fields of North Carolina as a child. She was never particularly interested in becoming a famous movie star, but she was intent on escaping the poverty she knew as the daughter of a sharecropper.
When she did get away, she became an alluring screen siren, lighting up the silver screen in more than 50 films. An hour-long profile of this actress, "Crazy About the Movies: Ava Gardner," premieres Monday at 8 on Cinemax, repeating Thursday at 11:30 a.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m., and March 24 and March 31.
Gardner married - but not for long - actor Mickey Rooney, bandleader Artie Shaw and singer Frank Sinatra. She was also a close friend of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. She starred in films opposite such leading men as Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck.
Peck recalls that the film "On the Beach" presented her with "the role of a girl who had lived some and been around some, had a few men in her life, had been knocked around a little. She had some experience to draw on ... I thought Ava was magnificent.
"Ava was never a conformist. There was always this streak of that maverick country girl who found all of this slightly ridiculous," Peck notes. In 1951 she bolted Hollywood for Spain, where she drank with Ernest Hemingway, danced into the night with gypsies and acquired a taste for bullfights and bullfighters.
She moved to London in 1968 and became very reclusive, although she still did occasional films and TV, including a role in "Knots Landing." She noted in her biography, "If I had my life to live over, I'd live it exactly the same way. I've had a hell of a good time." She died at 68 in 1990.
Tuesday on HBO at 10 p.m. "America Undercover: Asylum" goes inside Patton State Hospital, a California institution for the criminally insane, to meet some of the thousands of men and women who each year commit atrocious crimes but are judged not guilty by reason of insanity. Repeats: March 13, 17, 19 and 24.
Wednesday on The Nashville Network at 9 p.m. Ricky Van Shelton and Marie Osmond host the 90-minute "Music City News Country Songwriters Awards." Alan Jackson, last year's winner, leads with three nominations among the 10 song-of-the-year finalists. Vince Gill has two. Repeats at midnight.
Wednesday on Lifetime at 9 p.m. "Shattered Lullabies" is the featured special of the "Your Family Matters" series. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw hosting a probing show on the country's high infant mortality rate. Repeats: March 21, 25 and 28.
Saturday on Showtime at 10 p.m. Showtime's resident comic goes solo with the premiere of "Brian Regan: Something's Wrong With The Regan Boy," a 30-minute look at his childhood antics. Repeats: March 17, 22, 26 and 30.
Ava Gardner: From Sharecropping to Hollywood Stardom
Article from: The Washington Post Article date: March 8, 1992 Author: Martie Zad More results for: ava gardner
Ava Gardner worked in the tobacco fields of North Carolina as a child. She was never particularly interested in becoming a famous movie star, but she was intent on escaping the poverty she knew as the daughter of a sharecropper.
When she did get away, she became an alluring screen siren, lighting up the silver screen in more than 50 films. An hour-long profile of this actress, "Crazy About the Movies: Ava Gardner," premieres Monday at 8 on Cinemax, repeating Thursday at 11:30 a.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m., and March 24 and March 31.
Gardner married - but not for long - actor Mickey Rooney, bandleader Artie Shaw and singer Frank Sinatra. She was also a close friend of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. She starred in films opposite such leading men as Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck.
Peck recalls that the film "On the Beach" presented her with "the role of a girl who had lived some and been around some, had a few men in her life, had been knocked around a little. She had some experience to draw on ... I thought Ava was magnificent.
"Ava was never a conformist. There was always this streak of that maverick country girl who found all of this slightly ridiculous," Peck notes. In 1951 she bolted Hollywood for Spain, where she drank with Ernest Hemingway, danced into the night with gypsies and acquired a taste for bullfights and bullfighters.
She moved to London in 1968 and became very reclusive, although she still did occasional films and TV, including a role in "Knots Landing." She noted in her biography, "If I had my life to live over, I'd live it exactly the same way. I've had a hell of a good time." She died at 68 in 1990.
Tuesday on HBO at 10 p.m. "America Undercover: Asylum" goes inside Patton State Hospital, a California institution for the criminally insane, to meet some of the thousands of men and women who each year commit atrocious crimes but are judged not guilty by reason of insanity. Repeats: March 13, 17, 19 and 24.
Wednesday on The Nashville Network at 9 p.m. Ricky Van Shelton and Marie Osmond host the 90-minute "Music City News Country Songwriters Awards." Alan Jackson, last year's winner, leads with three nominations among the 10 song-of-the-year finalists. Vince Gill has two. Repeats at midnight.
Wednesday on Lifetime at 9 p.m. "Shattered Lullabies" is the featured special of the "Your Family Matters" series. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw hosting a probing show on the country's high infant mortality rate. Repeats: March 21, 25 and 28.
Saturday on Showtime at 10 p.m. Showtime's resident comic goes solo with the premiere of "Brian Regan: Something's Wrong With The Regan Boy," a 30-minute look at his childhood antics. Repeats: March 17, 22, 26 and 30.
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MAL VINCENT
BY MAL VINCENT
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
ANGELA LAWSON, executive director of the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, N.C., will be the guest tonight as part of the Papa and Ava Film Festival at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. The festival features film adaptations of the work of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and actress Ava Gardner.
Lawson will appear as part of the screening of "On the Beach," starring Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. It was directed by Stanley Kramer. Showtime is 7:15.
In addition to participating in a post-screening discussion, Lawson will bring memorabilia, posters and other items on the life and career of Gardner, who is buried near the museum in Smithfield.
"On the Beach" (1959) is an adaptation of the Nevil Shute novel chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear war that has left the world devastated. Named best film of the year by The New York Times, it received Academy Award nominations for editing and for Ernest Gold's score.
The film festival will continue next Monday with "The Killers," adapted from the Hemingway short story and starring Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien and William Conrad, and Aug. 22 with "Night of the Iguana," adapted from the Tennessee Williams play and starring Gardner, Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon.
The Naro is at 1507 Colley Ave. Call 625-6276.
MAL VINCENT
BY MAL VINCENT
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
ANGELA LAWSON, executive director of the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, N.C., will be the guest tonight as part of the Papa and Ava Film Festival at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. The festival features film adaptations of the work of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and actress Ava Gardner.
Lawson will appear as part of the screening of "On the Beach," starring Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. It was directed by Stanley Kramer. Showtime is 7:15.
In addition to participating in a post-screening discussion, Lawson will bring memorabilia, posters and other items on the life and career of Gardner, who is buried near the museum in Smithfield.
"On the Beach" (1959) is an adaptation of the Nevil Shute novel chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear war that has left the world devastated. Named best film of the year by The New York Times, it received Academy Award nominations for editing and for Ernest Gold's score.
The film festival will continue next Monday with "The Killers," adapted from the Hemingway short story and starring Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien and William Conrad, and Aug. 22 with "Night of the Iguana," adapted from the Tennessee Williams play and starring Gardner, Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon.
The Naro is at 1507 Colley Ave. Call 625-6276.
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