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Inside Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner’s Unlikely Friendship: How They ‘Remained Close’ Over the Years


Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner may have lived far apart, but they still managed to ‘remain close friends regardless of the physical distance between them.’

Hollywood is filled with stories of costars who couldn’t tolerate each other offscreen, but Ava and Grace, who met while filming 1953’s Mogambo, shared one of the Golden Age’s sweetest friendships. Clark Gable reprised his role from the original, this time caught in a love triangle between Grace and Ava rather than Mary Astor and Jean Harlow. “Instead of being shot on the Metro back lot, it was truly going to be photographed where it was supposed to take place,” recalled Ava, who joined her costars on location in Kenya, Uganda and several other African countries.

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