Ava Gardner Movies

A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young...

Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers),...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar...

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of...

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of...

A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many things, including his credits as a producer,...

Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories:...

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts...

Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead...

A widowed lecturer's two grown children try to break up what they believe is her inappropriate romance with a staid college professor.

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by...