Ava Gardner

All Movies of Ava Gardner

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  8.2
  The Band Wagon
  Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin have an idea for a ...
   1953

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  8.1
  The Night of the Iguana
  When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage ...
  Character: Maxine Faulk

   1964

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  7.8
  The Killers
  Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. ...
  Character: Kitty Collins

   1946

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  7.6
  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner) is feted by all in decadent self-imposed exile in Lisbon, but is unable to love or be loved until the arrival of the mysterious Hendrick van der Zee (James Mason) in the harbour changes her life.
  Character: Pandora Reynolds

   1951

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  7.4
  Seven Days in May
  At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has successfully negotiated an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet...
  Character: Eleanor Holbrook

   1964

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  7.3
  Show Boat
  The story, based on Edna Ferber's famous novel about life on a Mississippi show boat, tells parallel love stories of two doomed marriages. Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson), the sheltered daughter of the Cotton Blossom's owner (Joe E. Br...
  Character: Julie LaVerne

   1951

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  7.1
  The Barefoot Contessa
  At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she ...
  Character: Maria Vargas

   1954

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  7.0
  The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through his...
  Character: Lily Langtry

   1972

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  7.0
  The Angel Wore Red
  A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
  Character: Soledad

   1960

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  7.0
  The Great Sinner
  A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo. His true love for the girl is about to direct him to Monte Carlo and to turn himself into a compulsive gamb...
  Character: Pauline Ostrovsky

   1949

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  6.9
  The Bribe
  In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore fee...
  Character: Elizabeth Hintten

   1949

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  6.8
  Knights of the Round Table
  King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. Whi...
  Character: Guinevere

   1953

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  6.7
  East Side, West Side
  Character: Isabel Lorrison

   1949

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  6.7
  55 Days at Peking
  Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, ov...
  Character: Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

   1963

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  6.6
  Mogambo
  Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit directed by Victor Fleming. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventure...
  Character: Eloise Y. Kelly

   1953

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  6.5
  Permission to Kill
  When the exiled leader of a free party decides to return to his own country and attempt to remove the dictator currently in place there, several western governments are determined to stop him. A group is assembled, consisting of o...
  Character: Katina Petersen

   1975

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  6.5
  Two Girls and a Sailor
  A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
  Character: Canteen Dancer / Dream Girl

   1944

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  6.5
  The Cassandra Crossing
  A thousand passengers traveling from Geneva to Stockholm on a luxury express train, learn that there's a terrorist on board carrying a highly infectious plague virus.
  Character: Nicole / Nicole Dressler

   1976

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  6.5
  3 Men in White
  Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Re...
  Character: Jean Brown

   1944

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  6.4
  On the Beach
  In 1964, nuclear war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in t...
  Character: Moira Davidson

   1959

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  6.4
  The Bible: In the Beginning...
  An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and continue on to Cain and the murder of...
  Character: Sarah

   1966

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  6.4
  The Sentinel
  A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, and has some nasty flashbacks of her attempted suicide. She complains t...
  Character: Miss Logan

   1977

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  6.4
  Bhowani Junction
  This period film is a drama of chaos and revolt in which a young Anglo-Indian woman is forced to choose between her two races and twin allegiances when they are reflected in the men she loves. Ava Gardner plays Victoria Jones, a b...
  Character: Victoria Jones

   1956

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  6.3
  One Touch of Venus
  A window dresser in a department store feels a strange attraction to a mannequin in the display. One night he impulsively kisses her; she comes to life and reveals herself to be Venus, the goddess of love.
  Character: Venus

   1948

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  6.3
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green who he l...
  Character: Cynthia Green

   1952

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  6.2
  The Hucksters
  Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary. The first thing he has to do is get a war widow to endorse Beautee So...
  Character: Jean Ogilvie

   1947

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  6.1
  Mayerling
  In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf ...
  Character: Empress Elizabeth

   1968

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  6.0
  The Blue Bird
  The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and M...
  Character: Luxury

   1976

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  6.0
  The Naked Maja
  The peasant Francisco de Goya becomes a famous painter under the influence of the Duquesa de Alba.
  Character: Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba

   1958

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  6.0
  The Little Hut
  Three persons, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things to eat, they can concentrate on the love t...
  Character: Lady Susan Ashlow

   1957

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  6.0
  Lone Star
  Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Th...
  Character: Martha Ronda

   1952

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  6.0
  Singapore
  After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...
  Character: Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden

   1947

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  6.0
  Whistle Stop
  When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
  Character: Mary

   1946

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  5.7
  My Forbidden Past
  Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stra...
  Character: Barbara Beaurevel

   1951

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  5.7
  The Sun Also Rises
  After the First World War, Jake Barnes drifts through Europe seeking excitement to compensate for the impotence caused by a war wound. In Paris he meets Lady Brett Ashley, the woman who helped him to recover from his injuries duri...
  Character: Lady Brett Ashley

   1957

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  5.3
  Earthquake
  Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's e...
  Character: Remy

   1974

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  5.3
  Ride vaquero!
  Although cast totally against his usual image as not only a vicious killer but as the gun slinging subordinate to a character played by a lesser star, Robert Taylor must have welcomed this assignment from his longtime studio MGM. ...
  Character: Cordelia Cameron

   1953

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  5.0
  The Kidnapping of the President
  During a diplomatic visit to Toronto, the U.S. President Adam Scott (Hal Holbrook) is abducted by a South American terrorist, Roberto Assanti (Miguel Fernandes), and his female accomplice, and is held captive in an armored truck b...
  Character: Beth Richards

   1980

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  5.0
  Ghosts on the Loose
  Character: Betty

   1943

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  4.6
  City on Fire
  William Dudley (Leslie Nielson) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typical hot summer da...
  Character: Maggie Grayson

   1979

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  The Long Hot Summer (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Minnie Littlejohn 2 episodes, 1985

   1985

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  Anno Domini (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Agrippina 5 episodes, 1985

   1985

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  Regina Roma
  Character: Mama

   1982

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  Priest of Love
  Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short t...
  Character: Mabel Dodge Luhan

   1981

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  The Devil's Widow
  Based on the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin" (one of it's many titles), the plot concerns an aging, beautiful woman who uses her wealth (and occasionally, witchcraft) to control a decadent pack of attractive young peop...
  Character: Michaela Cazaret

   1970

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  She Went to the Races
  Character: Hilda Spotts

   1945

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  Blonde Fever
  Character: Minor Role

   1944

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  Maisie Goes to Reno
  Maisie is overworked at her defense job and is ordered to take a two week vacation. When she meets Tommy, he offers her a job singing with his band in Reno, but she has to get there on her own. So at the bus station, she finds a t...
  Character: Gloria Fullerton

   1944