Ava Gardner

The annual Ava Gardner 2024 Festival will be held the weekend of October 4 - 6, 2024 at the Ava Gardner Museum (Smithfield, NC) located just off I-95, Exit 95.

 

Ava Gardner Museum (https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/visit-the-museum/ava-gardner-festival/ )

Monday-Friday:  9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday:  9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday:  12:00pm - 5:00pm

 

I visited the Ava Gardner Museum in March 2022.

Friday, December 6, 2024 Turner Classic Movies channel will air an Ava Gardner movies marathon (commercial-free):

7:00AM ET:  East Side, West Side (1949).

9:00AM ET:  My Forbidden Past (1951).

10:15AM ET:  Ride, Vaquero (1953).

12:00PM ET:  The Angel Wore Red (1960).

2:00PM ET:  Bhowani Junction (1956).

4:00PM ET:  Knights of the Round Table (1953).

6:00PM ET:  Mogambo (1953).

The Rake - 02/2024

1947

 

 

Ava as Salome by Clarence Sinclair Bull in 1947

 

 

 

 

A Turkish magazine cover from 1948 and other photos from the same sitting

 

Ava Gardner by arnold Newman in New York in 1949

 

 

1949. Photographer Arnold Newman.

 

 

1947

The Hucksters

 

the hucksters 1947.mp4