Ava Gardner
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"Ava Lavinia Gardner" was an American actress.

She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946 film)/The Killers (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953).

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951 film)/Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)/The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (film)/Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959 film)/On the Beach (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (film)/The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (film)/Earthquake (1974), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990 at the age of 67.

She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars/Greatest Female Stars.

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For the loot, honey, for the loot.

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.

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.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages].

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

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

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 couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.