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Word: ava (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knights of the Round Table | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

Married. Lucian Michael Freud, 31, tousled London painter, grandson of the late great Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud; and Lady Caroline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 22, sister of Britain's Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

After two years of fighting and making up all over the U.S. and Europe, Cinemactress Ava (Mogambo) Gardner and crooning Cinemactor Frank (From Here to Eternity) Sinatra decided that their careers are bigger than both of them, agreed to call off their marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

What saves the film from the commonplace is an original juxtaposition of the human and non-human animals. Under John Ford's skillful direction, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelley shuck their human veneer and slip into the animal world which surrounds them. The passions which rage within this triangle are not civilized; they are elemental lusts common to all creatures. Driven by them, Gable becomes leonine, while Misses Gardner and Kelley are strictly feline...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Mogambo | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

...Among his wives: Cinemactresses Lana Turner (No. 3), Ava Gardner (No. 5) and Novelist Kathleen Winsor (No. 6). Last year he married Cinemactress Doris (The Lost Weekend) Dowling, is the father of a six-week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native's Return | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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