Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consideration of a new rifle and an assured income from Uncle Leo G. Carroll. Next comes Paris, which gives Director Henry King a chance to create an evocative scene of a hot jazz concert of the 1920s, featuring the alto sax of Benny Carter. Here, Peck finds liquid-eyed Ava Gardner who admits to sometimes "posing in the altogether" and is forced to whisper such sentiments as "Will you be kind to me? I think I'm a little afraid of you." Finally, there is blonde Countess Hildegarde Neff who swims, sculpts and is described as frigid, even though...
Marriage Revealed. Artie Shaw, 42, bandleader and author ( The Trouble With Cinderella), whose former wives have included Cinemactresses Lana Turner (No. 3) and Ava Gardner (No. 5) and Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (No. 6); and Cinemactress Doris (The Lost Weekend) Dowling, 29; he for the seventh time, she for the first; on June 19; in North Canaan, Conn...
...Ava Gardner portrays the epitome of seductresses with the slight imperfection of a North Chicago accent. James Mason tends to play Oedipus into the role of the Dutchman, but these two minor defects are more than atoned for by the alluring, but not lurid color, the exotic setting, and the originality of the cameraman. The Basques are genuine and speak real Basque. The Spaniards are real, too. Only the plot is unbelievable--after the screen goes white and the lights...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
...Wilson (Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...