Ava Gardner — Actor (36)
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The Hucksters (1947)
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Jack Conway actor: Clark Gable / Deborah Kerr …
other title: I trafficanti / O Mercador de Ilusões …
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Whistle Stop (1946)
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Léonide Moguy actor: George Raft / Ava Gardner …
other title: Sangue all'alba / Por Causa de uma Mulher …
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
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Lone Star (1952)
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Vincent Sherman actor: Clark Gable / Ava Gardner …
other title: Stella solitaria / Estrela do Destino …
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
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Singapore (1947)
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John Brahm actor: Fred MacMurray / Ava Gardner …
other title: Singapur / Singapour …
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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Knights of the Round Table (1953)
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Richard Thorpe actor: Robert Taylor / Ava Gardner …
other title: I cavalieri della tavola rotonda / Ridderne af det runde bord …
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
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Priest of Love (1981)
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Christopher Miles actor: Ian McKellen / Janet Suzman …
other title: Sacerdote del amor
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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One Touch of Venus (1948)
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William A. Seiter / Gregory La Cava actor: Robert Walker / Ava Gardner …
other title: Il bacio di Venere / Venus macht Seitensprünge …
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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City on Fire (1979)
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Alvin Rakoff actor: Barry Newman / Susan Clark …
other title: Città in fiamme / Stadt in Flammen …
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
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Mogambo (1953)
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John Ford actor: Clark Gable / Ava Gardner …
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
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The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
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John Huston actor: Michael Parks / Ulla Bergryd …
other title: La Bibbia / Bibelen …
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
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The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ava Gardner …
other title: La contessa scalza / A Condessa Descalça …
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.