Coming Home
In January 1990, my heart was full, and I was brimming with excitement. I had recently spoken with my Aunt Ava about a trip she was planning to make home to North Carolina. Despite the difficulties…
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Reflections on Ava
Ava Gardner. What do you think of when you hear that name? Movie star, icon, “The World’s Most Beautiful Animal,” Frank Sinatra’s wife? That was how I thought of her, a beautiful star who had it all…
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News from the Ava Gardner Museum - December 2022
Greetings from the Ava Gardner Museum! The staff and board of directors of the Ava Gardner Museum wish you all very happy holidays. It’s been a very busy time here at the AGM, and we’d like to update…
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Ava Gardner Museum's 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
The holiday season is upon us once again and the countdown to Christmas is underway! As we plan to gather with our friends and family over the holidays, let the Museum help you find the perfect gift…
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Movies are Murder: Ava Gardner’s Character Assassination Under the Hays Code
This post is part of the Classic Movie Blog Association’s fall blogathon: Movies are Murder . Throughout her five-decade career, Ava Gardner often played complicated, emboldened women. Beautiful, but…
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A Tribute to Ava Gardner
A mural of Ava Gardner was proposed at the very first planning meeting for the Ava 100 Centennial Celebration over a year ago and has been in the works ever since. Our first order of business was to…
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‘Absolutely Splendid:’ Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana
One of Ava Gardner’s most acclaimed performances was as Maxine Faulk, the widowed proprietor of a small coastal hotel in The Night of the Iguana . Adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams and…
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Latest Museum News
The Ava Gardner Museum staff and board of directors are in a state of excitement as we celebrate Ava’s centennial birthday this year and next. Our “Ava 100” committee is in full swing planning special…
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The Great Sinner
The Great Sinner was released on June 29, 1949. The film starred a large ensemble cast including Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, and Agnes…
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Ava Gardner in the Town That Didn’t Stare
Early in the morning on Friday, March 10, my daughter, Ava Malissa Silver, and I boarded a train from the Victoria Station in London headed to East Grinstead, home of the Queen Victoria Hospital…
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