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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Only worth watching with audio turned off
The documentary's off-screen clips of Ava Gardner are worth seeing, but watch with the audio turned off. You'll avoid the negativity and misrepresentations of the narration; the contradictions, condescension, ageism, misogyny and patronizing of some of the commentators. The moralistic filmmakers seem determined to present Gardner's story as tragic. (The word "tragic" is repeated multiple times to summarize her life at the end.) The filmmakers don't take long in presenting Gardner's delight and feeling of freedom in Spain in the 1950s to a condemnation of her (allegedly) apolitical views in regards to General Franco's dictatorship (although a talking head later says she moved from Spain in the late 1960s to avoid paying taxes to his regime), to yet another cautionary tale of high living leading to alcoholism, old age and loneliness. In other words: You booze, you lose.
Determined to make the worst of things, the filmmakers even go so far as to damn her friends as false. Tell that to John Huston or Roddy McDowall. Additional shame on the filmmakers for including unfavorable off-guard paparazzi photos of Gardner. Maybe such photos taken in public are fair game, but not a grainy shot snapped through a window by a peeping tom.
Although the documentary's focus is Ava Gardner's years in Spain, the film does a disservice to her career by dismissing and overlooking most of her earlier Hollywood film work, other than "The Killers".
Determined to make the worst of things, the filmmakers even go so far as to damn her friends as false. Tell that to John Huston or Roddy McDowall. Additional shame on the filmmakers for including unfavorable off-guard paparazzi photos of Gardner. Maybe such photos taken in public are fair game, but not a grainy shot snapped through a window by a peeping tom.
Although the documentary's focus is Ava Gardner's years in Spain, the film does a disservice to her career by dismissing and overlooking most of her earlier Hollywood film work, other than "The Killers".
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- Dec 31, 2022
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- Ava Gardner, The Gipsy of Hollywood
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- Runtime53 minutes
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- 16 : 9
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