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(1922-1990)

Who Was Ava Gardner?

Ava Gardner signed a contract to be an actress with MGM in 1941, but it wasn't until her appearance in 1946's The Killers that she became a star.

Gardner's off-screen life was often as dramatic as the roles she played, with marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. Gardner died on January 25, 1990, at age 67, in London, England.

Early Life

Gardner was born in Grabtown, North Carolina, on December 24, 1922.

She was her parents' seventh child. When Gardner was 2 years old, she and her family were forced to leave their tobacco farm.

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Her father then worked as a sharecropper, while her mother ran a boardinghouse. The family always struggled financially, a situation that worsened when Gardner's father died when she was 16.

Gardner was studying to be a secretary when her photographer brother-in-law sent pictures of her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

A striking beauty with dark hair and green eyes, Gardner's photos convinced