"Her tall beauty was indubitably regal but, from the start, the impression was that she was impatient and uncomfortable atop a pedestal, as if she had a fear of that particular height. If Gardner was a symbol of the swift and dizzying glories that stardom can grant, she was a symbol as well of its penalties, frustrations and disorientings. Everything is not quite enough, and the line between screen fictions and life as lived can start to blur." — Charles Champlin.
Photos of Ava by Clarence Sinclair Bull in promotion for "Maisie Goes to Reno" (1944).
