An Ava Fan in Madrid
This past summer I visited Madrid in order to follow the life of Ava Gardner in the period from 1953 to 1968, when she lived in Spain. For a long time, I have wanted to travel to a place where Ava…
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Recreating the Boxer Rebellion: 55 Days at Peking
The film 55 Days at Peking (1963) takes us to Peking (now Beijing), China in the year 1900 at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Ava Gardner stars as Russian Baroness Natalie Ivanoff, the love interest…
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August News from the Ava Gardner Museum
Greetings from the Ava Gardner Museum staff and board of directors! We hope you all are enjoying your summer. The A/C is running at the AGM, so now is the perfect time to come visit, enjoy the…
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Hollywood’s Hidden LGBTQ History
Ava Gardner was discovered and achieved international fame through the power and reach of the studio system which largely ruled the Hollywood film business from the late 1920s through the 1960s. While…
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Made for Television: Ava Gardner on the Small Screen
Ava Gardner made fewer films in the 1970s and 1980s, preferring her quiet life in London to any film set. In the 1980s, she briefly worked on the small screen, predominantly in television movies and…
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Adventure & Acclaim: Ava Gardner in Mogambo
“As far as my career as an actress went, Mogambo was probably as close to a pinnacle as anything I’ve done.” - Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story Ava Gardner received her first and only Academy Award…
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The Joy of Celebration
I am passionate about “bubbly!” My beloved aunt, Ava Gardner, cultivated my taste for great champagne by introducing me to the best that France had to offer. From the time I was a teenager, I was…
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Knightsbridge Neighbors
Tennessee Williams is noted to have said, Ava Gardner’s “ego was centered, it seems to me, around her friendships. ‘I’m a damn good friend,’ she always said.” The value Ava assigned to friendship…
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Ava Gardner's Birth Certificate Restored
On December 22, 2022 the Johnston County Register of Deeds, Craig Olive, presented a copy of Ava Gardner’s restored birth certificate to the Ava Gardner Museum. The Register of Deeds maintains the…
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Coming Home
In January 1990, my heart was full, and I was brimming with excitement. I had recently spoken with my Aunt Ava about a trip she was planning to make home to North Carolina. Despite the difficulties…
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