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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in ''The Killers'' (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in ''Mogambo'' (1953). She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including ''The Hucksters'' (1947), ''Show Boat'' (1951), ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952), ''The Barefoot Contessa'' (1954), ''Bhowani Junction'' (1956), ''On the Beach'' (1959), ''55 Days at Peking'' (1963), ''Seven Days in May'' (1964), ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1964), ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'' (1972), ''Earthquake'' (1974), and ''The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990 at the age of 67. She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.〔(Profile )〕 ==Early years== Gardner was born near the farming community of Smithfield, North Carolina, the youngest of 7 children (she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra). Her parents, Mary Elizabeth "Molly" (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner, were poor cotton and tobacco farmers. While there are varying accounts of her background, Gardner's only documented ancestry was English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ava Gardner )〕〔(Ava Gardner 1940s ), The Pop History Dig〕〔(Ava Gardner profile ), TCM website; accessed August 31, 2014.〕 She was raised in the Baptist faith of her mother. While the children were still young, the Gardners lost their property, forcing Jonas Gardner to work at a sawmill and Mollie to begin working as a cook and housekeeper at a dormitory for teachers at the nearby Brogden School. When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boarding house for the city's many shipworkers. While in Newport News, Gardner's father became ill and died from bronchitis in 1938, when Ava was 15 years old. After Jonas Gardner's death, the family moved to Rock Ridge near Wilson, North Carolina, where Mollie Gardner ran another boarding house for teachers. Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939. She then attended secretarial classes at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson for about a year.〔''Encyclopedia of World Biography'' Vol. 25 (2005) Gale, Detroit〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ava Gardner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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