Ava Gardner with a straw hat as a teenage girl 1939. Colorized. Print

This is a colorized version of an old photo from 1939 of Seventeen years old Ava Gardner with a straw hat. Although she was very young in this photo, she looks beautiful and enchanting. it seems that teenage girls at that time looked somehow more mature than today. Ava Gardner was a beautiful Hollywood actress known for her fatal female roles, her wild life outside of film and her marriages to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and Mickey Rooney. She has made many famous films, and her private life has been just as exciting and dramatic as in her films. She was an actress of exceptional beauty and charm that men could not resist. Some of her most famous films were: Snows from Kilimanjaro, Mogambo, Iguana Night, Crossing Cassandra, East Side, West Side, Naked Maya, etc. The American Film Institute declared her one of the greatest actresses of the last century, and during her turbulent life, the scandals that followed her attracted the attention of the public, if not more, than her role on the big screen. She was born Ava Lavinia Gardner on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, USA, and died on January 25, 1990 (at the age of 67) in Westminster, London, England. From the collection Colorized old black and white photographs.