European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 26, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 Young Ava Gardner her first time at the altar with husband Mickey Rooney. Gardner with her second husband Artie Shaw Al new York s Stork club. Screen Siren Ava Gardner Dies of pneumonia London a Ava Gardner the Farmer s daughter who fled Hollywood for Europe after her Stormy life began to match ii pc Mac Fallac roles she played on screen died thursday a Friend said. She was 67. The Friend Paul Mills told press association. Britain s Domestic news Agency that the actress died of pneumonia at her English Home in Kensing ton. West London. Gardner had been ill for some Lime. Press association said. She was Hospi Lah cd in january 1988 for More than a week with a respiratory problem and she suffered a stroke in october 1986. Gardner starred in 60 films begin Ning with we were dancing in 1942 and including the snows of Kiliman the Barefoot c show the Sun also rises night of the iguana and the kidnapping of the her last role was on the lbs to nighttime soap opera Falcon Gardner moved to London after her third divorce from Singer Frank Sina tra in i957. In an interview in 1982. She said she would gladly have traded her career for one Happy Long lasting marriage one Good Man i could love and marry and Cook for and make a Home for. Who would stick around for the rest of my life. I never found she said in the interview with London s daily express. She was married to Mickey Rooney jazz musician Artie Shaw and then Sinatra. The trouble was that i was a victim of image she said. Because i was promoted As a sort of Siren and play Edall those sexy broads people made the mistake of thinking i was like that off the screen. They could t have been More wrong. Although no one believes it i am pathologically shy. I was a country girl and i still have a country girl s rather simple Ordinary Gardner s reputation As a sex god Dess was launched in the 1946 film the killers co starring Burl Lancas Ter. She played a wild Spanish dancer opposite Humphrey Bogart in the Bare foot and a love hungry hotel proprietress chasing Richard Burton in Tennessee Williams night of the Lancaster said from his los Angeles Home she was a wonderful lady wonderful lady. She was a very simple lady. She used to come Down to the each with us and Cook and play with the kids. I Hope she was Happy that s All he said. Ava Lavinia Gardner was born de Cember 24, 1922, the youngest of six children of Cotton and tobacco Farmer Jonas Gardner of Smithfield . By the time she was a teen Ager it was Clear that Gardner was an exceptionally attractive woman. When she was 18, she visited her older sister Bra third husband Frank Sinatra divorced his wife Nancy to marry Gardner in 1951. Gardner filming night of the iguana with co Star Richard Burton in 1964. In new York. Bea s husband photographer Larry Tarr. Shot dozens of photo graphs of her. He put one up in his studio. It caught the Eye of Barney Dunham then a clerk in Mem s new York Legal department. Durnham had Tarr Send some pictures to Hollywood and Gardner wound up with a screen test and a $50-a-Weck contract As a Starlet. Gardner posed for cheesecake publicity shots and appeared in bit roles in several movies such As we were dancing and ghosts on the before her career started to break when she played the seductress in the the Auburn haired Green eyed actress reigned As Hollywood s sex god Dess after Rita Hayworth and before Marilyn Monroe. Her first marriage in january 1942 was to Rooney. He was 21 and at a career Peak As the Star of the Andy Hardy movies. She was 19, an ingenue under contract to Mem. Rooney took a studio press agent along on their honeymoon. They were divorced after 20 months. She met bandleader Shaw at a Holly Wood nightclub and they were married in october 1945. Shaw took several books to read on their honeymoon. Card nor later suffered a nervous break Down and the marriage ended a year and a week after it began. Between Shaw and Sinatra her name was linked to billionaire Howard Hughes. She met Sinatra whose career was in a slump during a Palm Springs party in january 1950. Sinatra was married at the time to Nancy his childhood Sweet heart and wife of 12 marriage broke up. And Sinatra and Gard Ner were married in Philadelphia on nov. 2. 1951. After a Stormy marriage to Sinatra Gardner obtained a divorce in july 1957, just As she finished making the Sun also in 1958, she announced she was quitting Mem. Which had brought her to Hollywood in 1941. Mem was never the right studio for me. They never bought a property for me they never knew what to do with me she said. Most of the time they loaned me Mills said Gardner s body will be taken to Smithfield . For burial alongside her parents according to press association
