Comments on: Ava Gardner on TCM http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ava-gardner-on-turner-classic-movies/ thinking film Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joao Soares http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ava-gardner-on-turner-classic-movies/#comment-381984 Joao Soares Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:50:04 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3687#comment-381984 Hi Andre, I know what you mean -- and actually, remembering back to "Show Boat", I'd been so taken by Ms. Gardner's performance that I hunted for years for a picture of the last scene, where she blows a kiss to the departing boat as the image turns hazy... (could never find it, though). Hi Andre, I know what you mean — and actually, remembering back to “Show Boat”, I’d been so taken by Ms. Gardner’s performance that I hunted for years for a picture of the last scene, where she blows a kiss to the departing boat as the image turns hazy… (could never find it, though).

]]> By: Andre Soares http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ava-gardner-on-turner-classic-movies/#comment-381979 Andre Soares Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:24:25 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3687#comment-381979 Joao, Perhaps "mannered" wasn't quite the right word. It's just that I felt that her "Night of the Iguana" performance was a *performance* -- unlike, say, those of Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, and Grayson Hall, whom I found fully believable. My two favorite Ava Gardner performances are those in "The Barefoot Contessa" and "Show Boat." Joao,

Perhaps “mannered” wasn’t quite the right word. It’s just that I felt that her “Night of the Iguana” performance was a *performance* — unlike, say, those of Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, and Grayson Hall, whom I found fully believable.

My two favorite Ava Gardner performances are those in “The Barefoot Contessa” and “Show Boat.”

]]> By: Joao Soares http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ava-gardner-on-turner-classic-movies/#comment-381961 Joao Soares Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:04:11 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3687#comment-381961 Hmmm.... You found Ava Gardner mannered in "The Night of the Iguana"? I found her irresistible, her craving for a life her age (and fate) had denied her, somewhere in that mexican coast... Truly beautiful. Hmmm…. You found Ava Gardner mannered in “The Night of the Iguana”? I found her irresistible, her craving for a life her age (and fate) had denied her, somewhere in that mexican coast… Truly beautiful.

]]> By: Enrico http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ava-gardner-on-turner-classic-movies/#comment-379625 Enrico Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:03:24 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3687#comment-379625 I remember once reading that some director - John Huston? - once said that Ava GArdner was one of the few "gentlemen" he'd ever met. Probably the most gorgeous too! I remember once reading that some director – John Huston? – once said that Ava GArdner was one of the few “gentlemen” he’d ever met. Probably the most gorgeous too!

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