Died Today (January 25th): Ava Gardner (1922–1990)

Ava Gardner (1922–1990)

Born: December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, USA
Died: January 25, 1990 (age 67) in Westminster, London, England, UK

I really had very little to contribute, so I played a lot of hatcheck girls, and did mob scenes, extra scenes, dancing scenes, just to have the experience of being on a set. I spent years at that. If the studio wanted a photograph to advertise a film they’d say, ‘Who is it that has a good pair of legs and a good pair of breasts and is pretty and not working?’ And it was always Ava because she was never working.

[on her first screen test] There wasn’t a thing that I could do. I couldn’t act–I was the first to be eliminated in high school plays. I had no training whatsoever. I was just a pretty little girl. But I loved the idea, because I loved movies.

God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.

Seven Days in May 1964 dir. John Frankenheimer starring Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas

The Night of the Iguana 1964 dir. John Huston Starring Richard Burton Gardner Earthquake 1974 dir. Mark Robson Starring Charlton Heston Gardne

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