#bhowani junction

[lizztaylor]

Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones in Bhowani Junction (1956)

[theglitterdome]

Ava Gardner on the set of Bhowani Junction - 1956

[ladybegood]

Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction (1956)

[vintagehollywood1]

Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction (1956)

[silver-screen-divas]

Films from the next decade or so include The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), Lone Star (1952), Mogambo, nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (1953), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), The Sun Also Rises (1957) and On the Beach (1959). Off-camera, she could be witty and pithy, as in her assessment of director John Ford, who directed Mogambo ("The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!"). In The Barefoot Contessa, she played the role of doomed beauty Maria Vargas, a fiercely independent woman who goes from Spanish dancer to international movie star with the help of a Hollywood director played by Humphrey Bogart, with tragic consequences. Gardner's decision to accept the role was influenced by her own lifelong habit of going barefoot.  Gardner played the role of Guinevere in Knights of the Round Table (1953), with actor Robert Taylor as Sir Lancelot. Indicative of her sophistication, she portrayed a duchess, a baroness and other women of noble lineage in her films of the 1950s.

Gardner played the role of Soledad in The Angel Wore Red (1960) with Dirk Bogarde as the male lead. She was billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven for 55 Days at Peking (1963), which was set in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The following year, she played her last major leading role in the critically acclaimed The Night of the Iguana (1964), based upon a Tennessee Williams play, and starring Richard Burton as an atheist clergyman and Deborah Kerr as a gentle artist traveling with her aged poet grandfather. John Huston directed the movie in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, insisting on making the film in black-and-white – a decision he later regretted because of the vivid colors of the flora. Gardner received billing below Burton, but above Kerr. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance.

[nowvoyagerit]

Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger in Bhowani Junction (George Cukor, 1956)

[lifes-commotion]

Happy heavenly Birthday Ava Lavinia Gardner (24 December 1922 – 25 January 1990)! She starred in films like The Barefoot Contessa, Show Boat, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Killers, Bhowani Junction, The Night of the Iguana, Mogambo, and Knights of the Round Table. Ava was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra.

[coffeebeansandlatenights]

“Not long ago I had a puppy — and, oh my, I was fond of that puppy. One day soon after getting it I bent down to stroke it, but I had a cigarette in my hand and I burned it instead. I tell you that because there were hundreds of things like that, all my life, from the beginning.”

— John Masters, Bhowani Junction

[cinema-tv-etc]

Ava Gardner(1922-1990)

Ava Lavinia Gardner (24th December 1922 - 25th January 1990) was an American actress and singer. 

She was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953), and also received BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for other films. 

Gardner appeared in several high-profile films from the 1940s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). 

Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990 at the age of 67.

[youcankissmenow]

Ava Gardner - No More Shall We Part (Michelle Cross & Bhowani Junction)

[retro-only-darling]

Ava Gardner photographed at Lahore railway station in Pakistan while filming Bhowani Junction (1956)

[lizztaylor]

“She lit a cigarette, inhaled deeply, and let the smoke drift out slowly through her mouth and nostrils. It was a seductive piece of business. Men had fallen in love with her because of that performance.”

- Peter Evans, excerpt from Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

[gameraboy2]

Bhowani Junction (1956)

[ladybegood]

Ava Gardner in a publicity photo for Bhowani Junction (1956)

[onthecoverofamagazine]

Ava Gardner || Cruce de Destinos

(Bhowani Junction, George Cukor, 1956) ~ Foto: George Hoyningen-​Huene

[silver-screen-divas]

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in John Ford's Mogambo (1953), and for best actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana (1964). She was a part of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

During the 1950s, Gardner established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like Show Boat, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (both 1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956) and On the Beach (1959). She continued her film career for three more decades, appearing in the films 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Mayerling (1968), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). And in 1985, she had the major recurring role of Ruth Galveston on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. She continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in 1990, at the age of 67.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gardner No. 25 on its greatest female screen legends list.