Ava Gardner - biography

“I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands.  And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life.  Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”

“I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty.  Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me.  Delightful, perfect.”

“Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen.  They couldn’t have been more wrong.”

“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.”

“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”

“What’s the point?  My face, shall we say, looks lived in.”

Ava Gardner has appeared in the following films:
Fancy Answers (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Babes on Broadway (1941)
We Do It Because- (1942)
Joe Smith, American (1942)
This Time for Keeps (1942)
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Sunday Punch (1942)
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
Mighty Lak a Goat (1942)
Reunion in France (1942)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Hitler’s Madman (1943)
Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Young Ideas (1943)
Swing Fever (1943)
Lost Angel (1943)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Three Men in White (1944)
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
Blonde Fever (1944)
She Went to the Races (1945)
Whistle Stop (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Hucksters (1947)
Singapore (1947)
One Touch of Venus (1948)
The Bribe (1949)
The Great Sinner (1949)
East Side, West Side (1949)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
Show Boat (1951)
Lone Star (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Bhowani Junction (1956)
The Little Hut (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Naked Maja (1958)
On the Beach (1959)
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Mayerling (1968)
Tam Lin (1970)
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Earthquake (1974)
Permission to Kill (1975)
The Blue Bird (1976)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Sentinel (1977)
City on Fire (1979)
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Priest of Love (1981)
Regina Roma (1982)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)