Programmed January 2024

Starring Ava Gardner

One of the most ravishing screen sirens of the 1940s and ’50s, Ava Gardner possessed a captivating combination of talent, sultry beauty, and audacity that practically vibrated on film. Discovered as a teenager after a family member sent her photograph to MGM, Gardner was immediately set apart from the studio’s typically blonde singer-dancers by her raven-tressed looks and feisty earthiness, making a knockout impression in classics like the crackerjack noir The Killers , the sumptuous melodrama The Barefoot Contessa , and the eccentrically ethereal romantic fantasy Pandora and the Flying Dutchman —the last, which swathes her in an array of showstopping gowns, proving a perfect vehicle for her glamorous allure.

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