Hello! My name is Dominique Benedict and I own Breakfast At Dominique's, the boutique coffee company creating the Official Ava Gardner Signature Coffee Blend fondly titled "The Goddess Blend." My…
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This past summer I visited Madrid in order to follow the life of Ava Gardner in the period from 1953 to 1968, when she lived in Spain. For a long time, I have wanted to travel to a place where Ava…
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The film 55 Days at Peking (1963) takes us to Peking (now Beijing), China in the year 1900 at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Ava Gardner stars as Russian Baroness Natalie Ivanoff, the love interest…
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Greetings from the Ava Gardner Museum staff and board of directors! We hope you all are enjoying your summer. The A/C is running at the AGM, so now is the perfect time to come visit, enjoy the…
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Ava Gardner was discovered and achieved international fame through the power and reach of the studio system which largely ruled the Hollywood film business from the late 1920s through the 1960s. While…
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Ava Gardner made fewer films in the 1970s and 1980s, preferring her quiet life in London to any film set. In the 1980s, she briefly worked on the small screen, predominantly in television movies and…
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“As far as my career as an actress went, Mogambo was probably as close to a pinnacle as anything I’ve done.” - Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story Ava Gardner received her first and only Academy Award…
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I am passionate about “bubbly!” My beloved aunt, Ava Gardner, cultivated my taste for great champagne by introducing me to the best that France had to offer. From the time I was a teenager, I was…
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Tennessee Williams is noted to have said, Ava Gardner’s “ego was centered, it seems to me, around her friendships. ‘I’m a damn good friend,’ she always said.” The value Ava assigned to friendship…
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On December 22, 2022 the Johnston County Register of Deeds, Craig Olive, presented a copy of Ava Gardner’s restored birth certificate to the Ava Gardner Museum. The Register of Deeds maintains the…
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