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Ava Gardner is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in The Aviator (2004), a film by Martin Scorsese about Howard Hughes. In the 1998 Movie "The Rat Pack" she was portrayed by Deborah Kara Unger.
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Planer's work had great influence on how Ava would be perceived. From now on Ava's publicity pictures concentrated on her face, and care was taken to light it expressively. Famous photographers throughout the world, including many who did not usually work with movie stars, were now eager to photograph her, and quickly Ava achieved international recognition as a great beauty.
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United Artists borrowed Ava for "The Barefoot Contessa", which was ahead of its time in making the heroine's sex drive the pivot of the plot. Writer/director Joseph Mankiewicz created a story of a Spanish slum girl who is taken to Hollywood, becomes a movie star, yet remains unimpressed by success and stardom. While indulging her sexual appetite secretly, she spurns the offers of jet set wolves, sensing that romantic fulfillment lies elsewhere. Eventually she meets her Prince Charming and marries him, but fate has a cruel joke in store. Again photographed lustrously by Jack Cardiff, Ava gave an excellent performance, radiating vibrancy and beauty while fully bringing out the conflicts felt by Maria. It is difficult to imagine any other actress embodying the role so convincingly.
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When a smitten great-grandson of Charles Darwin pronounced Ava Gardner "the highest specimen of the human species," he summed up the consensus about this voluptuous movie queen. With remarkable unanimity, those who met Gardner were apt to second that emotion.
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