Ava Gardner, la gitane d'Hollywood: les années espagnoles de la Comtesse aux Pieds Nus
- TV Movie
- 2018
- 53m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
139
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Explores the life of actress Ava Gardner and her decision to leave America for Spain.Explores the life of actress Ava Gardner and her decision to leave America for Spain.Explores the life of actress Ava Gardner and her decision to leave America for Spain.
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Ava Gardner
- Self
- (archive footage)
Anna Mouglalis
- Ava Gardner
- (voice)
Mickey Rooney
- Self
- (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
- Self
- (archive footage)
Mario Cabré
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Luis Miguel Dominguín
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Francisco Franco
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis documentary first aired on TCM on August 8, 2019, part of "Summer Under the Stars" tribute to Ava Gardner.
- GoofsThe narrator in the English version mispronounces the name of the composer Richard Wagner as if it was an English name (as in Robert Wagner), rather than German. He also mutilates "Cinecittá", and puts the accent on the wrong syllable.
- Quotes
Ava Gardner: Just short of my 35th birthday, I did something I'd been threatening to do for a long time. Something that no one would believe I'd ever manage. No, it was not leaving the picture business, but it was close. I left the United States for good and all and settled in Spain.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Killers (1946)
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ava the gypsy
There is no condescension quite like the left wing European kind toward America, huh? Certainly that is my main take away from this annoyingly dismissive and reductive documentary on Ava Gardner's long residence in Francoist Spain that manages to cast its subject as both victim and victimizer. This allows its director, Sergio Mondelo, to blame Hollywood for Ava's alcoholism and unhappiness while casting her as second only to Ike and Sam Bronston as Yankee enablers of the generalissimo/dictator. And so we have both the Ugly American Film Industry alongside The Ugly (if paradoxically gorgeous) American. I guess what I'm saying is that while Ava should be criticized for palling around with a fascist thug who disappeared and jailed people, for the film maker to see this as the defining moment of her life, as Mondelo does, is kind of silly, in my opinion. Ms. Gardner, like most of us, had many defining moments, several of which (like her relationship with Howard Hughes and her support for Civil Rights and Adlai Stevenson) go unaddressed in this documentary.
It also would have been nice if this hour long look at a Hollywood icon had featured at least one Hollywood talking head rather than the dull parade of French and Spanish film studies nerds we're presented with. Solid C.
PS...Top 5 Ava performances:
5) Mogambo 4) The Hucksters 3) East Side, West Side 2) Sun Also Rises 1) Iguana.
It also would have been nice if this hour long look at a Hollywood icon had featured at least one Hollywood talking head rather than the dull parade of French and Spanish film studies nerds we're presented with. Solid C.
PS...Top 5 Ava performances:
5) Mogambo 4) The Hucksters 3) East Side, West Side 2) Sun Also Rises 1) Iguana.
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- mossgrymk
- Jan 27, 2023
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- Also known as
- Ava Gardner, The Gipsy of Hollywood
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- Runtime53 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 16 : 9
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