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Purnell, Tony, and Ian Black. “Sinatra Weeps as His Ava Dies Alone.” Daily Mirror, Jan. 26,1990.
Quillin, Martha. “Ava Gardner Laid to Rest in Soil that Nurtured Her Tar Heel roots.” Raleigh News and Observer, Jan. 30, 1990.
Reddy, Thomas. “Ava Gardner Again to Seek Career.” Los Angeles Examiner, Apr. 23, 1944.
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———. “The Hollywood Scene.” Hollywood Citizen-News, May 27, 1959.
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———. “Ava: Life in the Afternoon.” Esquire, May 1967.
———. “The Road Gets Tough for the Barefoot Contessa.” GQ, April 1983.
———. “Ava, What a Dame!” Talk, Dec-Jan, 1999-2000.
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Ross, Frank, and Leeds Moberley. “Bullfighter a ‘Nice Guy’ to Sinatra.” New York Daily News, May 22, 1950.
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———. “Film Roles Belie Her Real Self, Says Ava.” N.d., cira 1950.
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———. “Tintypes.” Hollywood Citizen-News, Jan. 7, 1942.
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———. “The Hollywood Story: Problems of Frankie and Van.” [sic] American Weekly, Sept. 16,1951.
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———. “Ava Hints Crooner’s the Man—If Divorced.” Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1950.
———. “Ava Tells Off Policeman.” N.p. clipping, Aug. 1951.
———. “Bullfighter Rival of Sinatra Quite Sure of Ava’s Love.” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1950.
———. “Grouchy Sinatra Meets Ava Gardner in Spain.” Los Angeles Times, May 12, 1950.
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———. “Film Roles Belie Self, Ava Insists.” Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 19, 1952.
———. “The Life and Loves of Ava Gardner.” Photoplay, Feb. 1952.
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———. “Untamed.” Photoplay, Apr. 1973.
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———. “Ava Speaks of Love to Wilson!” New York Post, June 26, 1950.
———. “Frankie and Ava Striving to Avert Marriage Crack-up.” Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 6, 1952.
———. “Sinatra Bullish in Toreador War for Ava’s Love.” New York Post, May 19, 1950.
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———. “Says Mason: I don’t feel guilty about becoming American, British in Hollywood cut pathetic figure.” Daily Mail, May 31, 1950.
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VIDEO/TELEVISION
Tam Lin, introduction by Roddy McDowall. VHS. Republic Home Video, 1988.
“Ava Gardner: Hollywood Diva,” Lifetime’s Intimate Portrait, Lifetime Network.
Seven Days in May, commentary by John Frankenheimer, DVD. Warner Studios, 2003.
“Frank and Ava.” 20/20, ABC.
FILMOGRAPHY
Strange Testament. 1941. MGM. Exec, producer: Richard Goldstone. Director: Sammy Lee. (Passing Parade short subject.)
Fancy Answers: What’s Your I.Q.? 1941. MGM. Exec, producer: Richard Goldstone. Director: Basil Wrangell. (Short subject.)
We Do It Because. 1942. MGM. Exec, producer: Richard Goldstone. Director: Basil Wrangell. (Short subject.)
Mighty Lak a Goat. 1941. MGM. Director: Herbert Glazer. (Our Gang short subject.)
H.M. Pulham Esquire. 1941. MGM. Producer-director: King Vidor. Screenplay: Elizabeth Hill, King Vidor. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Van Heflin. (AG uncredited.)
We Were Dancing. 1941. MGM. Producer: Orville O. Dull, Robert Z. Leonard. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay: Claudine West, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel. Cast: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman (AG uncredited.)
Joe Smith, American. 1941. MGM. Producer: Jack Chertok. Director: Richard Thorpe. Screenplay: Allen Rivkin. Cast: Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Darryl Hickman. (AG uncredited.)
This Time for Keeps. 1941. MGM. Producer: Samuel Marx. Director: Charles Reisner. Screenplay: Muriel Roy Bolton, Rian James, Harry Ruskin. Cast: Ann Rutherford, Robert Sterling, Guy Kibbee. (AG uncredited.)
Kid Glove Killer. 1942. MGM. Producer: Jack Chertok. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Screenplay: Allen Rivkin, John Higgins. Cast: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman. (AG uncredited.)
Sunday Punch. 1942. MGM. Producer: Irving Starr. Director: David Miller. Screenplay: Allen Rivkin, Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin. Cast: Jean Rogers, Albert Lundigan, Guy Kibbee. (AG uncredited.)
Calling Dr. Gillespie. 1942. MGM. Producer: Jerome S. Bresler. Director: Harold S.
Bucquet. Screenplay: Willis Goldbeck, Harry Ruskin, Kubec Glasmon (story), based on characters created by Max Brand. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, Donna Reed, Philip Brown. (AG uncredited.)
Reunion in France. 1942. MGM. Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Jules Dassin. Screenplay: Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky, Marc Connelly. Cast: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn. (AG uncredited.)
Pilot No. Five. 1943. MGM. Producer: B. P. Fineman. Director: George Sidney. Screenplay: David Hertz. Cast: Franchot Tone, Gene Kelly, Marsha Hunt. (AG uncredited.)
Du Barry Was a Lady. 1943. MGM. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Roy Del Ruth. Screenplay: Irving Brecher. Cast: Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Virginia O’Brien. (AG uncredited.)
Ghosts on the Loose. 1943. Monogram. Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: William Beaudine. Screenplay: Kenneth Higgins. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Minerva Urecal, Stanley Clements.
Hitler’s Madman. 1943. MGM. Producer: Seymour Nebenzal. Director: Douglas Sirk. Screenplay: Peretz Hirschbein, Melvin Levy, Doris Malloy. Cast: John Carradine, Patricia Morison, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan. (AG uncredited.)
Young Ideas. 1943. MGM. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Jules Dassin. Screenplay: Ian McLellan Hunter, Bill Noble. Cast: Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor. (AG uncredited.)
Lost Angel. 1943. MGM. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Roy Rowland. Screenplay: Isobel Lennart. Cast: Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt. (AG uncredited.)
Swing Fever. 1943. MGM. Producer: Irving Starr. Director: Tim Whelan. Screenplay: Nat Perrin, Warren Wilson. Cast: Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Lena Home. (AG uncredited.)
Three Men in White. 1944. MGM. Producer-director: Willis Goldbeck. Screenplay: Martin Berkeley, Harry Ruskin, based on characters created by Max Brand. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Keye Luke, Ava Gardner.
Two Girls and a Sailor. 1944. MGM. Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Richard Thorpe. Screenplay: Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman. Cast: June Allyson, Gloria De Haven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Henry Stephenson, Ben Blue, Frank Sully, Donald Meek, Frank Jenks, Gracie Allen, Harry James and Orchestra, Xavier Cugat and Orchestra, Lina Romay, Ava Gardner.
Maisie Goes to Reno. 1944. MGM. Producer: George Haight. Director: Harry Beaumont. Screenplay: Mary C. McCall Jr. Cast: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden, Paul Cavanagh, Ava Gardner.
Music for Millions. 1944. MGM. Producer: Joe Pasternak. Director: Henry Koster. Screenplay: Myles Connolly. Cast: Margaret O’Brien, Jose Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Hugh Herbert, Harry Davenport. (AG uncredited.)
Blonde Fever. 1944. MGM. Producer: William W. Wright. Director: Richard Whorf. Screenplay: Patricia Coleman. Cast: Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Felix Bressart, Gloria Graham, Marshall Thompson. (AG uncredited.)
She Went to the Races. 1945. MGM. Producer: Frederic Stephani. Director: Willis Goldbeck. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard, from a story by Alan Friedman and De-Vallon Scott. Cast: James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn,
Sig Ruman, Reginald Owen, J. M. Kerrigan, Buster Keaton.
Whistle Stop. 1945. United Artists. Producer: Seymour Nebenzal. Director: Leonide Moguy. Screenplay: Philip Yordan, from the novel by Maritta Wolff. Cast: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway, Florence Bates, Jorja Cartwright, Mack Gray.
The Killers. 1946. Universal. Producer: Mark Hellinger. Director: Robert Siodmak. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller (John Huston, uncredited). Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Phil Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Vince Barnett, Jack Lambert, Jeff Corey.
The Hucksters. 1947. MGM. Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Director: Jack Conway. Screenplay: Luther Davis, from the novel by Frederic Wakeman. Cast: Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold.
Singapore. 1947. Universal. Producer: Jerry Bresler. Director: John Brahm. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, Robert Theoren, from a story by Seton I. Miller. Cast: Fred Mac-Murray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver, Richard Haydn, Spri
ng Byington, Thomas Gomez.
One Touch of Venus. 1948. Universal. Producers: William Seiter, Lester Cowan. Director: William Seiter. Screenplay: Harry Kurnitz, Frank Tashlin, from the play by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, music by Kurt Weill, from a story by F. Anstey. Cast: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan, Tom Conway, James Flavin.
The Bribe. 1948. MGM. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts, from a story by Frederick Nebel. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak, Samuel S. Hinds.
The Great Sinner. 1948. MGM. Producer: Gottfried Reinhardt. Director: Robert Siodmak. Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood, from a story by F. Dostoyevsky. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Ludwig Stossel, Agnes Moorehead.
East Side, West Side. 1949. MGM. Producer: Voldemare Vetliguin. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Isobel Lennart, from the novel by Marcia Davenport. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Davis, Gale Sondergaard, William Conrad, Beverly Michaels, William Frawley.
My Forbidden Past. 1951 (produced in 1949). RKO. Producers: Polan Banks, Robert Sparks. Director: Robert Stevenson. Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet, from the novel by Polan Banks. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucille Watson, Janis Carter, Clarence Muse.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. 1951. MGM/British Lion. Producer: Albert Lewin, Joseph Kaufman. Director: Albert Lewin. Screenplay: Lewin. Cast: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabre, Marius Goring, Pamela Kellino.
Show Boat. 1951. MGM. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: George Sidney. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, from the stage musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, from the novel by Edna Ferber. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Adele Jergens, William Warneld, Frances Williams.
Lone Star. 1952. MGM. Producer: Z. Wayne Griffin. Director: Vincent Sherman. Screenplay: Borden Chase. Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, Ed Begley, William Farnum, William Conrad.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro. 1952. 20th Century-Fox. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Director: Henry King. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, from the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Marcel Dalio, Ava Norring.