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Acting

Ava Gardner

Career: Active from 1941 to 1986, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 35
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: The Killers
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 56 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ava Gardner Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.1, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0
Scare
1.6, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 6
Historical Drama 5
Character-Driven 4
Political Intrigue 4
Star-Studded Cast 3
Character Study 3
Film Noir 3
Tense Atmosphere 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Social Commentary 3
Romantic Drama 3
Lighthearted 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

77

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 71

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

71

as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)

2000s

1 title

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

as archive footage

1990s

2 titles · average score 88

That's Entertainment! III

88

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Legends of the West

as Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

9 titles · average score 56

Harem

57

as Kadin

Maggie

as Diane Webb

Harem

55

TV show · as Kadin

The Long Hot Summer

63

TV show · as Minnie Littlejohn

A.D.

63

TV show · as Agrippina

Regina Roma

46

as Mama

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

69

as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Priest of Love

55

as Mabel Dodge Luhan

The Kidnapping of the President

44

as Beth Richards

1970s

10 titles · average score 53

City on Fire

40

as Maggie Grayson

Knots Landing

77

TV show · as Ruth Sumner Galveston

The Sentinel

44

as Helen Logan

The Cassandra Crossing

41

as Nicole Dressler

The Blue Bird

25

as Luxury

Permission to Kill

57

as Katina Petersen

Earthquake

52

as Remy Royce-Graff

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

61

as Lily Langtry

The Ballad of Tam Lin

46

as Michaela Cazaret

1960s

6 titles · average score 61

Mayerling

55

as Empress Elisabeth of Austria

The Bible: In the Beginning...

47

as Sarah

The Night of the Iguana

75

as Maxine Faulk

Seven Days in May

81

as Eleanor Holbrook

55 Days at Peking

60

as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

The Angel Wore Red

48

as Soledad

1950s

15 titles · average score 62

On the Beach

67

as Moira Davidson

The Naked Maja

43

as Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana

The Sun Also Rises

52

as Lady Brett Ashley

Bhowani Junction

81

as Victoria Jones

The Barefoot Contessa

77

as Maria Vargas

Mogambo

60

as Eloise Y. Kelly

Knights of the Round Table

45

as Guinevere

Ride, Vaquero!

52

as Cordelia Cameron

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

61

as Cynthia Green

Lone Star

58

as Martha Ronda

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

73

as Pandora Reynolds

Show Boat

73

as Julie LaVerne

1940s

33 titles · average score 61

The Bribe

57

as Elizabeth Hintten

The Great Sinner

62

as Pauline Ostrovsky

East Side, West Side

57

as Isabel Lorrison

One Touch of Venus

66

as Venus

Singapore

46

as Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden

The Killers

88

as Kitty Collins

Whistle Stop

44

as Mary

She Went to the Races

59

as Hilda Spotts

I'm a Civilian Here Myself

as Dream Girl (uncredited)

We Do It Because

as Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)

Fancy Answers

as Girl at Recital

Strange Testament

as Waitress (uncredited)