article_snippet.sent: The pin-up girl of her era, Ava Gardner (right) was listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest Female Stars in the 1950s with high-profile marriages to Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra (pictured with Ava,
article_snippet.sent: High-profile roles in in films such as the Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951) and The Night of the Iguana (1964) catapulted Ava Gardner into the limelight.
article_snippet.sent: But Ava Gardner off-screen life was often as dramatic as the roles Ava Gardner played, with marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra.
article_snippet.sent: Ava is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest Female Stars.