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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak 's film noir The Killers .
Rooney was born Ninnian Joseph Yule, Jr., [7] in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1920, the only child of Nellie W. Carter and Joe Yule. [8] His mother was an American former chorus girl and burlesque performer from Kansas City, Missouri, while his father was a Scottish-born vaudevillian, who had emigrated to New York from Glasgow with his family at the age of three months. [4]
It gave an early role to Donna Reed although Mickey Rooney had lobbied for his then-wife Ava Gardner to have her part. Within a few months of the film's release, she filed for divorce. [2] This was the 12th entry in the long-running Andy Hardy series of sixteen.
Ava Gardner (October 21, 1952) Clifton Webb (December 7, 1952) Olivia de Havilland (December 9, 1952) Adolph Zukor (January 5, 1953) Ezio Pinza (January 26, 1953) Donald O'Connor and mother Effie (February 25, 1953) Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (June 26, 1953) Jean Simmons (September 24, 1953) Danny Thomas (January 26, 1954) James Mason ...
A revised edition of 'Sinatra: Behind the Legend' by celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli paints a harrowing picture of Sinatra's love affair with screen siren Ava Gardner — one that ...
The film was a "special" from Monogram. They borrowed Ava Gardner from MGM (then best known as having been married to Mickey Rooney) to play the female lead. [2] Filming began February 8, 1943. Exactly ten days earlier, producer Jack Dietz was sentenced to seven months in jail for tax evasion. [3] The title was changed to Ghosts on the Loose in ...
Plan B co-founder and Los Angeles native Dede Gardner refuses to let the Trump administration scare her out of LA. At an EFM Industry Talk session Feb. 15 in Berlin, moderated by Variety‘s Elsa ...
John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive relationship with actress Lana Turner.