While Ava Gardner never won any of the major acting awards during her 45-year career, she was nominated for several, most notably the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Eloise “Honey Bear”…
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January 2020 marks 100 years since the start of the “Roaring Twenties” and the start of Prohibition. The decade of the 1920s is well-known as an economically prosperous time period, a time of cultural…
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The Ava Gardner Museum is participating in Hometowns to Hollywood's Wedding Bells Blogathon! This is our third and final post for the blogathon. For more posts about weddings on and off screen during…
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The Ava Gardner Museum is participating in Hometowns to Hollywood's Wedding Bells Blogathon! We will be sharing blog posts about Ava's three weddings & marriages over the next few days. For more…
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The Ava Gardner Museum is participating in Hometowns to Hollywood's Wedding Bells Blogathon! We will be sharing blog posts about Ava's three weddings & marriages over the next few days. For more…
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The “Roaring Twenties,” also known as the Jazz Age is known for economic prosperity, social progressiveness, parties, flappers, and excess. Prohibition and “The Great Gatsby” come to many people’s…
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Ava Gardner’s thoughts on her hometown, childhood birthdays, sharing a birthday with Howard Hughes and being born a night owl. Quotes from Ava’s autobiography, Ava: My Story, with historical context…
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On the Beach premiered on December 17, 1959 simultaneously in 18 different theaters on all 7 continents. Premieres were held in New York, Hollywood, London, Rome, Tokyo, Caracas, and Melbourne, among…
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Ava Gardner was a Southern woman through and through. In her autobiography she talks about food & family and brags about her mother's cooking. “The kitchen…always looked as though a hurricane had just…
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Bert Pfeiffer never met Ava Gardner, and he was not the typical fan. Captivated by Ava’s performance as a statue who comes to life in the 1948 film One Touch of Venus, he vowed to paint one portrait…
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